[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibO Mission Statement ? [was: Briefing]

Le 2010-11-16 18:18, Bernhard Dippold a écrit :
> Hi Thorsten, all,
>
> Thorsten Wilms schrieb:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Originally sent to tdf-discuss, as I thought it would be slightly more
> > appropriate, but it remains without answer there.
>
> I started a reply there, but didn't manage to finish it (time problem...)
> > So this is for those who are not subscribed to tdf-discuss:
> >
> >
> > A proper briefing should be at the root of designing a better logo, no
> > matter if there will be a contest or not. Actually this is true for any
> > design or development effort.
>
> It is true for any work:
>
> What is my interest in doing this ?
>
> What are the goals I'm heading to ?
>
> Are there others working on the same direction?
>
> What are the interests of our target groups?
> > So what is the most minimal core of a missions statement, what is the
> > essence, the high level goal just a bit more specific than "make the
> > world a better place"? ;)
>
> Defining a mission statement is crucial - thanks for starting this
> discussion. I changed the subject to reflect this importance.
>
> > How about:
> >
> >
> > Mission Statement
> > =================
> >
> > Develop an office productivity solution and make it and the project
> > itself available to and accessible by a majority of humans.
>
> Create and maintain a community of individuals and groups working
> collaboratively on different aspects of this development.
> > It follows:
> > - Given our modern needs, there needs to be software
> > - Internationalization
> > - Free Software
> > - All major platforms
> > - Interoperability
> > - Open, documented interfaces
> > - Open, documented file formats
> > - Compatibility with other solutions
> > - Collaboration
> > - Meritocracy (there needs to be some hurdle for contributing and
> > based on ability*effort is best, if you care about the result)
>
> Free Software and open file format (ODF should be mentioned here) are
> main topics IMHO - the other describe details of the main goals.
> > Notes
> > =====
> >
> > I would usually encourage defining an audience as narrow as possible,
> > but it seems the widest possible scope is actually defining for this
> > project. If not, please step forward with definitions of a narrower
> > audience.
>
> As our target groups differ very much in their interest and needs, a
> broad audience is the right approach. Granularity might be feasible by
> extensions and re-bundled applications, but this might not be topic of
> the Mission Statement.
> > The statement is phrased in a way that opens the door for education and
> > non-software bound approaches.
> >
> > The word "develop" shall imply optimizing the process and outcome. "Best
> > possible" or "optimal" would just bloat the statement, as it's clear
> > that you don't want an just-acceptable solution. However, it's not clear
> > what optimal or best possible really means in the end.
>
> I started to think this way, but you are right: Even if our goal is to
> become the best and most used office suite in the world, it is not
> necessary to state this here.
>
> With regards to other ODF office suites this might lead to more
> cooperation and less concurrency.
>
> > But what is an "office productivity solution" or an "office (software)
> > suite", actually? How do you define the scope here? How do you include
> > enough, but not too much?
>
> That mainly depends on our goals:
>
> If we want to broaden the focus of applications / features / files
> (calender, music, video, flash etc), the focus shouldn't be too narrow.
>
> On the other hand this would lead to expectations and development effort
> that might be better focused on improving the existing specialized
> applications inside and outside of LibO - while integration via gateways
> and interfaces definitively makes sense.
>
> Best regards
>
> Bernhard

Before embarking on this process, should we first get some direction 
from the SC? Should we formalise this a little more? BTW ... Graham 
Lauder is excellent at organising these things if he is not too busy.

Marc


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