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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Strategic Planning Framework
From:       Charles de Miramon <cmiramon () kde-france ! org>
Date:       2004-12-21 16:46:05
Message-ID: 200412211746.06602.cmiramon () kde-france ! org
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Le Dimanche 19 Décembre 2004 04:13, Steven William Giacomelli a écrit :

> I suggested previously that a mission statement for kde could be phrased as
> 
> "To create, maintain, improve and promote KDE and related software using
> the bazaar model with the aim to provide the best free and opensource
> software avaliable. With the long term goal through KDE to promote and
> develop a community of users and developers to further the mainstream
> adoption and development of free and opensource software and platforms.
> 
> but again that would have to be clarified by the "community"
> 

I still don't see the interest of having a tautological statement explaining 
that the goal of KDE is making KDE better. Maybe the Police need to insist 
that they are there 'to protect and serve' when there are many crooked or 
brutal cops, or a company has to find a nice motto to boast a team spirit in 
their disillusioned downsized workforce. But KDE is a volontary association, 
our members know why they are there. We have much less work to do than the 
Police, the Army or a big company to motivate our troops.

If we have to delineate a mission statement it should be much more ambitious 
"We are here to change the face of software by creating an open-source free 
desktop environment which is equal or better than commercial offerings. Our 
ambition is to put the open-source revolution on the desktop of  normal users 
around the world and provide them powerful, easy to use and secure 
applications to communicate, create, play, learn, run their business, ...".

It seems that you are thinking in a hierarchical frame of mind. I have done 
like you (15 years ago) marketing courses and I see that some of the 
marketing lingo has not changed. A marketing course put you in the shoes of a 
marketing director. You think hard about you product, write a general 
strategy, and then junior marketing people write more and more detailed 
operational plans with all the required lingo. You have a budget to pay a 
Publicity company and load of marketing assistants and salesmen to do the 
ground work and that will obey the orders you bark at them in a true Jack 
Welsch fashion. 

We don't have the beginning of this hierarchical organization. Our problem is 
to foster volunteer work to spread the gospel. You don't give volunteers 
orders, you help them by providing a nice bible, some leaflets and tips...

You will have to forget what you learned in the MBA classroom and think 
outside the box, not the growth of the Roman Empire but the rise of 
Christianity...

Cheers,
Charles
-- 
cmiramon@kde-france.org
http://www.kde-france.org
 
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