[Owncloud] Re: Vision

[Frank Karlitschek]

My point is that a mission statement is not a feature list.
We shouldn´t add every single feature we support today or tomorrow to this statement. Because we would end up with a huge texts and limit our thinking to this points.
Remember the old KDE website? We had exactly the same problem here because people keep on adding feature description to this paragraph for 10 years and  we end up with a mess that no one is reading.


For me a mission statement is a brief paragraph with our goals like: Give the user control of their data again, As easy as possible to setup and run, Completely Free Software, Cross platform, ..


Stuff like cool sharing features, cool media player, versioning, addons, are featues to make the mission statement happen. They should go into a feature paragraph

Cheers
Frank


On 11.06.2011, at 23:34, Aaron Reichman wrote:

> I like the idea of adding sharing to the mission statement.
> 
> ownCloud provides *sharing capabilities and* universal access to your files, through webdav or a web interface. It also provides a platform to easily sync your contacts, calendars and bookmarks across all your devices and gives you basic editing features right on the web. It's easy to extend with a powerful and simple API for applications and plugins and an easy installation process.
> 
> Frank, I'm also curious what features you think we're not mentioning here. I agree that a mission should be brief but I tried to articulate a purpose rather than specific features. Any part of ownCloud's purpose that you feel is missing?
> 
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Frank Karlitschek <karlitschek at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> On 11.06.2011, at 22:58, Jakob Sack wrote:
> 
> > Hi list,
> >
> > today Aaron Reichman asked me if we have some vision for owncloud. As far as I
> > remember we did not write down anything until now. So Aaron and I created the
> > following vision:
> >
> > ownCloud provides universal access to your files, through webdav or a web
> > interface. It also provides a platform to easily sync your contacts, calendars
> > and bookmarks across all your devices and gives you basic editing features
> > right on the web. It's easy to extend with a powerful and simple API for
> > applications and plugins and an easy installation process.
> >
> 
> Sounds fine with me. There are of course more features worth mentioning. But a "mission statement" has to be brief.
> So I think it´s good.
> 
> 
> 
> > What do you think about it?
> > If there are no complaints in the next 4 days we are going to write this in
> > the wiki.
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jakob
> 
> Cheers
> Frank
> 
> 
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