Fredag den 10. december 2010 10:43:52 skrev Jos Poortvliet:
The statement should only be the text part, not the bullet points I wrote below it to explain...
so:
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.
Seems rather complete, right?
It seems a bit vague and off-point to me. The first part about promoting Linux everywhere is unnecessary filler imho. I don't like the emphasis on flexible - cuz I don't think we can deliver on it. Gentoo and Arch are flexible - openSUSE is considered by many Linux users to be particularly *in*flexible - at least compared to the "do-it-yourself" line of distros. All it says about the distro itself - which is the only thing 99% of people will care about - is "flexible and powerful", so in the current form there's not much differentiating us from Fedora or Debian or others. I would suggest to add something about stability/productiveness and up-to-date-ness. And I'd mention the distro before the tools and infrastructure. It makes it seem like the distro is secondary. It's not made absolutely clear that openSUSE is a community distro, welcoming contributions from anyone. All it says is that whoever is creating openSUSE is working together in an open manner. I also don't like the comparison to others. E.g. "one of the world's this and that". The mission statement should just say what _we_ want to do. In other words it should look like this: --------------------------- The openSUSE community invites everyone to join us in creating a powerful, up to date and productive Linux distribution plus distribution building infrastructure. We work together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community. --------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org