On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 11:43:34AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > Well the question to ask the board is are they looking for measurable goals > or 'reach for the stars' goals. We need both, and, crucially, we need them to be interconnected. We have a very high-level goal in our mission "to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community." "Creating a Linux distribution" is noticeably missing from this mission, and we certainly could spend some time revisiting that if there's enough interest, but I'm content to read "to lead" as "create a Linux distribution which leads". If we're fine with that collectively, cool, but we certainly can go back to that level if people think it would be productive. We also have some existing objectives defined by an earlier board -- see <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives>. To save link-clicking, they are: creating a Free (as in Freedom) distribution, building open source software communities, and developing the science and practice of building communities. These objectives seem fine, although I don't think we're doing anything to really work on the third, and the second is questionable. And I can see how they're connected to the mission in the abstract, but I think there's a link missing. If we produce any of those three things, how do we know -- and how do we show, to ourselves or anyone else -- that we are achieving our starry-eyed vision? I think we can keep these objectives in the back of our mind, but we need to figure out the *measurable impact* we want to have. So, the first question is: what _specific_ changes do we want to occur in the world? Then, we can look at what we need to be focusing on in order to create that change. Or maybe we don't want to change the _world_. Maybe we want to change some smaller subset of it. That's okay too, but it'd be nice to be clear on it. (I do have some ideas for answers to these questions, but I'll put those in a different subthread.) -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
