On 11/05/2010 08:46 AM, Martin Schlander wrote:
Fredag den 5. november 2010 14:43:50 skrev Jos Poortvliet:
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:
Ah, smart people at the conference :-)
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
Well, their mission is quite sympathetic and I'm glad to have Fedora around, but if you read between the lines it really means: "unproductive, bleeding edge, experimental toy for geeks". And I'm pretty sure that most of the openSUSE community wants something rather different - fortunately most of the strategy discussion so far has confirmed this.
- 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.
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?
Sorry to keep repeating myself, but the keywords here should definitely be productive, powerful and professional :-)
How about something along these lines: "In the openSUSE project we work together to create a professional and powerful Linux distribution, which lets people be productive."
Substitute something else for professional. I am sure there are plenty of users like me who don't care if "professionals" find openSUSE useful. I don't do one thing "professional" with my 11.3 installations, I do things that are useful to me. Let SLED be what professionals use. -- Sent from my Linux box. Regards de KC6KGE. A very happy Flex-3000 user. Skype flamebait Gmail flamebait at gmail dot com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org