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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: koffice mission statement etc.
From:       Jaroslaw S <kexipl () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-10-03 10:44:01
Message-ID: 56a746380910030344r4f6cdf12jddd9808428fdfee5 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/10/3 Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org>:
> On Tuesday 1. September 2009 09.02.55 Thomas Zander wrote:
>> On Sunday 30. August 2009 10.08.28 Andrew Dorrell wrote:
>> > I've been snooping the existing documentation on koffice recently and
>> > have not found anything that really motivates koffice development.
>>
>> I like the short and sweet, its impossible to do anything else for
>> something as huge as KOffice.
>
> I'm thinking this was a good idea, but we didn't get to a conclusion on
> which fits us best. People focused on what was incorrect in various so I am
> wondering if we can pick one that people don't object to :)
>
> The mission statement is a useful thing to help give some direction and let
> the world show we have a direction for our suite. Its useful to point to
> when someone asks if we are just here to destroy Microsoft or other silly
> questions. And last, its useful for us. Ideally we all agree on the
> direction we are walking in since if everyone is walking in the same
> direction we get there much faster. This also shows it should not be too
> detailed ;)
>
> | "The KOffice team aims to provide a powerful and extensible set of office
> | and creativity components that are easy to use and that values open
> | document standards."

Since we wanted to slash details, I propose to remove "document" and
leave just "open standards".
The reason is that not only document formats (most notably ODF) is in
area of our interest but also [network] protocols and formats for
databases or data access.

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regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
 Kexi & KOffice (http://www.kexi-project.org, http://www.koffice.org)
 KDE Libraries for MS Windows (http://windows.kde.org)
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