[kde-guidelines] [kde-artists] We need a Vision!

[Heiko Tietze]

On Tuesday 11 March 2014, 15:25:46 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> I am a little skeptical - we're a very diverse community and I don't think
> you can draft ONE vision for all of KDE - especially considering we're
> trying to expand what KDE is further and further (improv is hardware,
> bodega & owncloud & ghns are server, there's mobile, tablet, ...). But that
> note can and should be part of any discussion...
Only 12 people follow your argumentation and voted for "I don't think we need 
a generic vision statement because...".

Result of votes (multiple answers allowed):
* Powerful, yet easy to use (46%, 132 Votes)
* Elegant software (42%, 121 Votes)
* All-purpose full-featured software (38%, 111 Votes)
* KDE: a community for all people (28%, 81 Votes)
* Cutting edge technology (27%, 78 Votes)
* KDE: Qt5 at its best (15%, 44 Votes)
* I don't think we need a generic vision statement because... (4%, 12 Votes)

In my opinion the vision should be something similar to what Kver suggested: 
“Be the framework of people and software for the majority of computing in 10 
years time.” Despite of the 'tomorrow we rule the world' notion it involves 
all applications and flavors of KDE. All other aspects (powerful, elegant, 
feature rich etc.) would be bottom line text. As a side node: the discussion 
seems to be of interest for many people and was picked up by Golem [1], a 
German IT news page.

Actually, all projects should define own visions based on the common one. The 
HIG [2] includes purpose and how-to, as well as a reference to the common 
guideline.

[1] http://www.golem.de/news/entwickler-community-kde-ueberarbeitet-projekt-ziele-1403-104995.html
[2] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Vision