On Thursday 09 December 2010 01:21:18 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Monday 08 November 2010 12:47:44 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey,
On 11/8/10 12:44 PM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Regarding mission, I just stumbled upon this:
The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community.
Which is a shortened version of the "We are" paragraph from the guiding principles. The guiding principles already contain all the mission statements we need i think. I fail to see why we need something else.
Ok.
So building on that, taking a few comments from this thread:
The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE maintains and develops a packaging and distribution infrastructure on which it creates one of the world's most flexible and powerful Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community.
- we're international - we promote linux EVERYWHERE - we build infrastructure - we have created a very flexible and powerful linux distro (a powertool that might be a bit heavy on Aunt Tilly, but she can ask Uncle Tom for help if there are issues) - we work together in an open, transparant etc etc etc way
The change is actually very minor, I think most is covered with this and we don't deviate much from what we have. Should be quite acceptable. And for who wants to read more, we have the rest of the strategy which I'll be updating now.
Cheers, Jos
Henne
Ok. Here goes. Attached the almost-final draft. One painpoint left that I see: "openSUSE. Linux for grown-ups". I like it, but a comment from Helen South struck me:
Not keen on 'Linux for Grown-Ups'. Odd combination of arrogant and boring.
check out the competition http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2010/05/sloganeering-in-linuxunix---wh.ht ml
Alternatives are hard - "Open Productivity" is one thing I thought of. or more casually "Get Stuff Done." "Achieve More." "Customize Your Toolbox"
Maybe we should change this into something we're more comfortable with, it'll be visible so it will be picked up. So ideas on this are welcome. Otherwise, I think we have something that has had a lot of input and thus should be something which is pretty good. Obviously we can do revisions in the future, however, I think it's ready for a vote by the openSUSE membership. Agreed? Jos OpenSUSE Mission Statement (one paragraph summary) The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE develops and maintains a packaging and distribution infrastructure on which it creates one of the world's most flexible and powerful Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. openSUSE - Linux for grown-ups The following document is a statement describing the openSUSE users, community, products and goals. The document is for internal use and guides communication and decision making within the community. It does not aim to limit anyone within the community to work on what they want! What is openSUSE We are the openSUSE Community - friendly, welcoming, vibrant, and active. The openSUSE Project provides an open and innovative atmosphere to collaboratively work on a variety of distribution-related and packaging technologies and products. Our development philosophy focuses on stability and flexibility, innovative community infrastructure, and seeking collaboration with the wider Free and Open Source community. Below more details on our community, product and infrastructure. Community and People The openSUSE community is the heart of the openSUSE project. * We encourage and enable the users in our community to contribute to openSUSE and shape its future, lowering barriers to particpation in our community wherever possible. * The openSUSE community collaborates with other communities providing the best technology Free Software has to offer. * We care about contributing our improvements to upstream projects. * We work closely with companies in our ecosystem that provide additional value, including support and enterprise offerings on top of or derived from openSUSE technology. * Our community aims to foster the development of Free and Open Source Software while taking a pragmatic approach to what we ship to our users, allowing them to use proprietary alternatives if they choose to. For details see http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Strategy_Community_Statement Distribution The openSUSE distribution offers a powerful, stable core and enables everybody to contribute additional packages and tools through the openSUSE Build Service: freedom and choice are our keywords. The openSUSE software distribution offers: * A powerful, stable core * Rich out of the box experience based on sane defaults with powerful tools for system configuration and customatization * Flexibilty and freedom of choice with a wide software selection. * Timed releases and an easy upgrade path between maintained versions of the official distribution * Seamless integration and compatibility with other operating systems and tools The main focus of the openSUSE software distribution is on workstations, laptops, netbooks and servers. Tools and services The freely available openSUSE tools and services aim to support the collaborative development process within openSUSE and we encourage other projects to leverage them for their own usage. * We take advantage of our infrastructure to make up to date software available for multiple current releases for a variety of distributions including older releases of openSUSE * We provide technology to easily build openSUSE deriviates in the form of live images, appliances and even full distributions * We share our infrastructure technology such as openSUSE Build Service with others, providing them with tools to create whole distributions or single packages for a variety of platforms Target users We cater for users who are interested in computers and want to experiment, learn or get work done. We offer them a stable and enjoyable computing experience which does not limit their freedom of choice, offering sane defaults and easy configuration. What do we not focus on? The openSUSE community has its goals and targets; consequently there are things that are not in the direct focus of our community. This does of course not mean it is not possible to pursue any of those goals from within the openSUSE project or using the openSUSE tools - we are a Free and Open Source Software community and anything is possible. openSUSE does not: * Oversimplify the system to the point where configuring it becomes harder. We prefer flexibility over an (extreme) focus on ease of use. * Always having the latest and greatest in the shipped releases. Through the Build Service you can install the latest packages or whole software groups built for your openSUSE version, preserving the stability and integrity of the rest of your installation. * We do not maintain large distribution-specific patches as we want to upstream as much of our work as possible. * Work on Mobile or embedded devices. * Offer enterprise-level support. We don't work on software or hardware certification, indemnification, OEM installations and the like. However we ensure our infrastructure enables our partners to offer these services.