Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (229 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jos Poortvliet wrote:

> On 2010-11-05 Per wrote:
> > I guess Joos
>
> one jos, two joos? ;-)

Who(o)ps, sorry about that, I was typoing from memory.  Feel free to
omit an s from my last name :-)

> At the conf one piece of feedback was that we need a single-sentence
> mission to describe what we want - very much like what fedora has:
>
> The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and
> open source software and content as a collaborative community.
>
> I think I like their mission and it's also pretty correct - so we
> brainstormed on what would fit openSUSE. Suggestions are very welcome,
> we currently have:
>
> The openSUSE project's mission is to unlock the posibilities of
> computers to users around the globe using the power and flexibility of
> Linux.

Hmm, I can't help thinking this is the kind of mostly pointless
corporate mission statement I've have presented with innumerable times
in my corporate past. 

> but it's far from perfect. Somehow it should mention we focus on
> flexibility and power ("make things as simple as possible but no
> simpler"), it should be ambitious (eg worldwide blabla), focussed on
> end-users etc - the requirements are clear as they come from the rest
> of the strategy discusion. But now, how to phrase it in one sentence?

Have a lot of fun?



-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (10.8°C)

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