Jos Poortvliet wrote:
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?
If this is the one: "The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.", then yes, I think that is also mostly pointless waffle. It sounds grand, but does it _mean_ anything?
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.
I hope the projects aim will be to produce a high-quality, dependable Linux distribution, and that we'll have a lot of fun doing it.
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?
First, I think the important thing for a mission statement for a volunteer community is to actually _say_ something. Second, the mission statement isn't meant to express everyones individual goals, it's meant to express just _one_ goal. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org