latest draft for mission (and strategy)

[Clemens Toennies]

Am 06.07.2017 um 10:09 schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
> On donderdag 6 juli 2017 01:45:59 CEST Clemens Toennies wrote:
>> Am 05.07.2017 um 22:58 schrieb Alexander Neundorf:
>>> On 2017 M07 5, Wed 15:05:26 CEST Clemens Toennies wrote:
>>>> On Jul 5, 2017 13:14, "Sebastian Kügler" <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
>>>> How about Freedom?
>>> The "KDE - Digital Freedom" is one of my favourite T-shirts...
>>> Still, there exists already a software organizatio which has freedom as
>>> its
>>> main goal: GNU.
>> Gnome already builds a "free" desktop, so why should we?
>> Good thing they dont have a monopoly on it 
>>
>> Imo we deliver quite advanced free software that helps people experience
>> freedom like e.g. Krita, Kdenlive and many others that are more
>> practical than comparable organizations like GNU have to offer.
>> So we as KDE should not need to cut down ourself to strive for a smaller
>> subset of "Freedom" (aka Privacy or Android) in our mission (or vision)
>> only because some other organization claims to have the same goal.
> Krita is an excellent example though to demonstrate how well specialization 
> works -- instead of trying to do a photoshop clone, Krita found its niche in 
> natural painting and has quickly become the best in class in that field (as 
> far as I know).
>
> Having done promotion in KDE for a really long time, I tend to agree that 
> Freedom is too broad and too abstract for many people to understand and be 
> really compelling. We tried to make it less abstract and promote freedom at 
> our core much more (the t-shirt Alex mentioned is one of the assets I made 
> exactly with that purpose, so is the slogan "Be free" that you mentioned, but 
> it hasn't given us the focus we need. From a marketing point of view, KDE 
> needs to find a niche from where it can really shine and break into new new 
> markets, be the best-in-class. 
>
> I do believe that privacy is a very suitable niche for KDE, it's hugely 
> important nowadays, it's a lot easier to communicate the need for it than the 
> very abstract concept of Freedom, and, most importantly, it really is one of 
> the things that we, diverse as we are, all agree on.

Just that privacy doesnt fit W2L at all.

Greetings, Clemens.