[Appeal] Draft for a "vision" document (based on Aaron's initial one).

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Sunday 03 April 2005 21:11, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday 03 April 2005 11:59, Stephan Binner wrote:
> > The length of this make me wonder how long a vision should be. Maybe not
> > more than two "pages"? This reads more like a mixture of justification
> > why a vision other than "creating a Unix desktop" is now necessary, a
> > marketing document containing the buzz-words and an "in depth" document
> > telling what concrete of the vision exists or is being worked on already
> > now.
>
> the "vision paper" should be reasonably brief, yes. otherwise no one will
> read it. but even more importantly, i tried to stick to _just_ the things
> people at the meeting had said they were working on _and_ which fit in the
> Appeal Project mission. in other words, an elaboration on the
> "deliverables" list we made.

If we limit ourselves to what you call "the deliverables", forget 
"the vision".

> we don't need to list or detail every thing each of us doing. and more
> importantly, we shouldn't try and create a "KDE vision".

In a way, this still is what I have in mind. 

And with Matthias on board now, it should not be to difficult, to 
reference to his original vision document (the mail on newsnet that 
started it all), draw a balance sheet about what was achieved and 
what is left to be done, and a "rejuvenated" formulation of a vision
(including the changed environment we are part of now, as compared 
to 9 years ago).

That would symbolize the continuity of KDE as well as the new stage
we try to lead the project into.

> that will get 
> rejected out of hand by the community, and rightfully so IMO.

I dont see this happen, if done the right way.

> we should state what Appeal will be doing directly and perhaps serve as an
> inspiration and leader to other KDE projects that wish to similarly reflect
> the ideals and vision of Appeal.

That, of course, is nothing objectable either.

Cheers,
Kurt