latest draft for mission (and strategy)

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Last year we have talked a lot about KDE's vision, fleshed it out and
> wrote it down: https://community.kde.org/KDE/Vision I am proud that we
> have done that. However the work does not end there. We have the
> answer to the question "why are we here". We still need the answer to
> the question "how do we achieve our vision". We've had an insightful
> survery among our community and users and a lot of discussions around
> that. This was then all further discussed in a sessions at QtCon in
> Berlin. After that smaller groups have sat down to take all the input
> and refine it, but then the process got stuck for several reasons. At
> the last board meeting the board and sebas sat down again and looked
> at where we are wrt distilling all the input. It turns out we are less
> far away than we thought. We took the input from the session at
> Akademy and polished the wording slightly. We then analyzed it more
> and figured out the issue that had been bugging us with the existing
> draft: It was mixing mission and strategy. We split it up and this
> seems to work much better.
>
> I'd like to invite you all to take a look at the current draft and
> provide your constructive feedback so we can use this as the basis for
> our work for the next years.
>
> https://community.kde.org/KDE/Mission

Thank you everyone for your comments and a useful discussion! I have
worked in the remaining comments. With this I believe we have a useful
piece to rely upon for some of the larger decisions we need to make
and communicate to the outside world. I'm very happy we got this far
and are discussing our future together.

I'd like to give everyone one week for final comments and objections.
After that it will be accepted.

One last remaining unresolved point of the discussion is the wish for
a number of very concrete bigger goals to work towards. The mission
and strategy does not provide this. We discussed that in this thread
and also extensively at Akademy. I believe we have found a process
that can work well for us to identify them together. Kevin will send a
proposal for discussion later today or tomorrow.


Cheers
Lydia

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