On Wednesday June 30 2010 18:17:28 Guido Berhoerster wrote:
* Jan Engelhardt
[2010-06-30 17:11]: == Statement ==
We deliver a well-balanced platform that equally appeals to end users, power users, developers and server administrators. (Other fields we currently do?)
== Activities ==
=== Will do... ===
* Do as we always did
* Good compromise between actuality and stability * Agreeable release cycle between 8 and 12 months * Support for the 3 most current releases
I certainly would love this - even if it is just some core for servers that gets longer support. Another alternative would be to make some LTS once in a while.
* Continue the naturally growth of openSUSE:Factory
by incorporating contributors' submissions
* provide a low entry-barrier for potential contributors (through the OBS it is probably easier to make contributions than any other Linux distro)
* For end users
* Deliver both KDE and GNOME desktops
(with a focus on KDE. By laws of physics we are required to provide an antipole to the otherwise GNOME-ridden world ;-)
Heh, before the flame war starts once again stick with the "all desktop are considered equal" maxim ;D (I use only KDE myself but I think that openSUSE does a pretty good job in having the different alternatives polished and is one of the few distros that can claim this so this shouldn't get changed)
* Covering a multitude of areas of interest
(publishing:/latex, OOo, graphics:/gimp, inkscape, etc.)
* For developers
* C, C++, Perl, Python, Java and the usual satellite libraries
(boost, libwhatdoIknow, maven, ...)
* For power users and sysadmins
* Agreeable command line experience (I can quantify that if desired..) * Xen VM * Networking Services (dns,http,etc etc etc)
* easy creation of specialized derivatives and applicances (through Studio)
=== Try to... ===
* Deliver a third, more minimalistic desktop environment
* Speed it up (doesn't everybody? :-)
* minimal system (we're ok I'd say)
* blubb.
We already do with the LXDE desktop which will make its debut with the 11.3 release :)
* Do The Right Thing™ rather than just doing what the loudest voice says - i.e. critical analysis towards hyped items
* Better marketing, in particular communicating our existing strengths and unique features (i.e. competitive advantages)
=== Will... ===
* not solely focus on a narrow band topic only
* not necessarily do something just because Ubuntu does it
+10 for this proposal.
You should put in on the wiki.
/signed Merge this together with Martins "poweruser" proposal and the developer one and we have the best IMHO. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org