2010/8/17 Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > In the interest of taking action rather than talking about a vision > statement is needed, here is something for target practice, please fire > away. > > --- > > OUR MISSION (Why we exist) > > The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open > source software and content as a collaborative community. > > > * The Fedora Project always strives to lead, not follow. > * The Fedora Project consistently seeks to create, improve, and > spread free/libre code and content. > * The Fedora Project succeeds through shared action on the part of > many people throughout our community. > > > VISION (What we're working towards) > > The Fedora Project strives towards a world in which computers fueled > primarily by free & open source software, both client and server, and > content improve the lives of users all over the world. > > --- > > > Does anyone take issue with that? > > If not, let's take a look at what we're doing and prioritizing now and > match it up with how well it contributes towards getting us to that > future. Darn it, quit looking at what I am writing. Now I have to come up with something new. I would like people to also look over 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusions_of_innovations 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm The reason is that I look at the Diffusions and see where several of our tensions lie (even below the boar-headedness of some participants.). Fedora has been something written by innovators FOR innovators. An innovators view of what they want in things is completely different from other market groups. They do things because they like to do something not because they are told to do it. If it works 50% of the time they are happy. The next group is called everything from "Early Adopters" to "Visionaries". It takes things from the Innovator market and tries to get ahead or fulfil a vision/niche. Sometimes things go well and adopters are able to communicate to the innovators and new innovations come in to feed more 'visions'. Other times it falls on its head and the two groups squabble like nuclearized nations. If it works 84% of the time they are happy. However it also must fulfill some specific need, (SugarLabs? is a visionary group that takes a Fedora release and makes it something students around the world can use.. ) The third group is called things like "The Early Majority" but for this discussion I will call it "Red Hat Enterprise Linux". For the most part this is the group that funds Fedora (our innovators) and in return wants something that every X.Y years it can turn into the new version of RHEL. The things that Majority owners want is stability. If it doesn't work at least 99.8% of the time there are complaints. So our Vision, Mission, and inevitable Charter MUST cover this to help people know what is going on. Yes we want innovations and new stuff, BUT eventually it has to be something that can be made into an Enterprise Linux (lets call it CentOS for argument). The community elects the Board and FESCO to bridge that gap somehow, and we are then tasked with figuring out where this Middle area is and how we will fill it. Hope this makes sense.. its been a bad day of headaches. -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
