Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (229 mails)

[Alin Marin Elena <alinm.elena@xxxxxxxxx>]

If we try to differentiate ourselves from other linux distros, in my
opinion, we should try to be a real community distro...
A place where ideas are assest independent of whom emanetes them...
and where coders, packagers lend their skills to the community and
they are not the drivers of what goes in...
A place where your idea is rubbish cause you never commited code, you
never packaged something...
Maybe we should look into a kibbutz like model.


Alin

On 8 November 2010 15:42, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?



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