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?