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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: koffice mission statement etc.
From:       Andrew Dorrell <andrew.dorrell () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-08-31 12:57:37
Message-ID: 200908312257.37431.andrew.dorrell () gmail ! com
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Hi Jos,

You make some very good points - especially about adding specifics.  My list 
was simply a first take at a bunch of alternatives just to get people thinking 
(so you have to forgive the repetition - you are not meant to use all of 
them).  I would really like the koffice community to discuss, identify and 
state what they want to achieve through their work on koffice.  This may 
include why koffice is important and distinct from other office software 
projects. 

I don't believe I've been around this project long enough to say!  Personally 
however I'd be cautious about setting as a mission something as mundane 
sounding as

	"To produce a collection of software tools for the creating,viewing and 
editing office documents."

The reason is simple - it doesn't give any reason for the project to exist 
over and above projects like open office (and others).  

Perhaps:
"To provide the best free and open source suite of office and creativity 
applications based around open standards and employing an efficient and 
reliable set of components that provide a consistent feel to the creation of 
specific content types across the suite."

One the other hand I don't have a problem with "To create a compelling suite 
of office and creative applications that people will want to use."



For reference you might want to consider the svn mission 

	"to replace cvs"

and the XFree86 mission:

	"The primary goal of the XFree86 Project is to produce XFree86® and to make 
it the best freely-redistributable Open Source implementation of the X Window 
System by implementing it on as many hardware and software platforms as 
possible, by enhancing and extending it to meet the needs of new hardware and 
software platforms and by licensing it in a manner that is the same as or 
equivalent in spirit to the original MIT/X licence. The Project seeks to work 
towards this goal in a manner that gives the strongest weight to the technical 
integrity of the ideas, implementation, and individuals involved, with the 
commercial viability and influences from commercial or political interests 
being non-goals and explicitly not addressed."

which cover the range from short and sweet to comprehensive.


On Monday 31 August 2009 5:22:22 pm Jos van den Oever wrote:>
> This is a good initiative. I agree with you that it would be good to make a
> description of what we want people to be able to do with KOffice.
> If such a list is accurate it can be used to determine the development
> direction in a way that is more concise than just coding. Nevertheless, I
> think your list is a bit 'managerese' in the sense that it is not very
> concrete. For each of the points we state is goals it should be possible to
> say: 'have we achieved this goal?' without much effort. In this area you
> list comes short at the moment.
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