Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (229 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2010-11-05 Per wrote:
> 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 :-)

Per Jesen? Wel, ok :D

But no problem, just thought it was funny :D

> > 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.

Hmmm. to check: do you think the same about the one Fedora has?

> > 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?

yeah but is that why openSUSE exists? Just to have fun? If it is, fine, of 
course. I thought we had a slightly higher goal, like Bringing Something 
Better Into This World.


Not everyone will have the exact same goal which will obviously ensure our 
mission WILL be a bit wide, vague (and probably, because of that, corporate?). 
But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to define it, right?