I agree. I don't think the Mission Statement should be removed, just the heading changed.
Jonathan Prior On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:58:09 +0200, Nicu Buculei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > >>On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:21:41 +0200, Alexandro Colorado > >>I think the mission statement is and has been the worst thing on the > >>front page for the last four years. However, I seem to remember Louis > >>arguing that it had to be there, for political reasons. I hope this is > >>my long-term memory playing up. > >> > > > > There were indeed political considerations. I'm not committed to it > > being there now. As I metioned before, the MS was a big effort on the > > part of the community and when we did take it off for a while there was > > a fair amount of complaint. > > > > But let's see it off for a test. If lots of complaints, we can do what > > we did last time: put it back. > > i think the mission statement should stay on the front page. more, i > think it should be made more visible. however, i'm for a rewording, > because i don't consider "provide access to all functionality and data > through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format" > something very friendly for first time visitors. > as an example, i kind of like the mission statement on the Gnome website > (the "What is GNOME?" box) - http://www.gnome.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
