On Monday, February 29, 2016 15:58:48 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Montag, 22. Februar 2016 23:05:49 CET Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Monday, February 15, 2016 18:36:18 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > A bit less than two weeks ago we sent the first draft for the > > > community vision for KDE. We have gotten a lot of useful feedback and > > > have now put this into a second draft. It reads as follows: > > > "KDE creates technology for a world in which everyone has freedom, > > > privacy and control over their digital life." > > > If there is anything that you disagree with about that vision, please > > > speak up. Otherwise, expressing your agreement is helpful as well! > > > > > > There seems to be significant agreement on the principles encoded in > > > this vision. Therefore I'd like us to give this a final polish now and > > > if needed go for a third draft (which then should be the last one to > > > not stall this forever). This is a draft for a vision for what kind of > > > world the community aims for, it's not a product vision. As there > > > still seems to be disagreement on the product vision, Thomas will > > > address that in a separate email. > > > > there's no strong disagreement with your proposal among the supporters of > > the "focused" draft, given that it'll be accompanied by a product > > vision/mission. > > I'm happy that we've come to a point where it shows that we all have the > same goal in mind in the end. > > We also all agree that a vision without a mission provides motivation, but > hardly any guidance, and therefore formulating a mission is absolutely > necessary. > > > So, can we try to get that done in one go ? > > This is where I see a problem. The whole vision definition process has > dragged on for quite a while now, which was necessary to get everyone on > board, but also exhausting. > > Defining a mission will take quite a while as well, and if we wait with > publishing a vision until the mission step is completed, it could be > frustrating for many who have participated in the vision process and just > want to see something come out of it already.
well, we could give it a try at least. :-) So, agree to a preliminary vision statement, write that down on some wiki page, and then start working on the mission. Or we may actually start right now ? I have the impression that only some tweaking is left to do to the preliminary vision. And then let's see e.g. end of April (or May) how we are progessing ? Alex _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
