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| author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2011-11-04 19:19:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2011-11-04 19:19:35 +0100 |
| commit | be49aa7ddec52e121d562e14d4d93fd301b05fbb (patch) | |
| tree | e0d69d1dd8914299c4d317b54632795168c1fa99 /open_issues/mission_statement.mdwn | |
| parent | 0e54e12df6b9969fda6d294fb506944a8b754323 (diff) | |
IRC.
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diff --git a/open_issues/mission_statement.mdwn b/open_issues/mission_statement.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..212d65e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/mission_statement.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_documentation]] + +IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10-12: + + <ArneBab> we have a mission statement: http://hurd.gnu.org + <Gorodish> yes + <Gorodish> but it's quite wishy washy + <Gorodish> considering all the elegant capability Hurd potentially has to + offer + <antrik> Gorodish: it's true that the mission statement is very + abstract... but then, it's hard to put anything more specific into 35 + words + <Gorodish> not with some practice + <Gorodish> I notice programers tend to speak and write in terms of what + something does + <Gorodish> not what it is + <Gorodish> the "What is Hurd" is a good example + <Gorodish> there's a lot of interesting information there + <Gorodish> but the way it's ordered is odd + <antrik> a mission statement is not primarily a PR instrument; but rather a + guide that allows separating things that benefit the common goal from + things that don't... + <antrik> I agree that some actual marketing material in addition would be + nice :-) + <Gorodish> yes + <Gorodish> the modesty of Developers that work on FOSS projects never + ceases to amaze me + <Gorodish> I agree that the informational, factual, results oriented + documentation is the primary objective of documenting |