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Daniel Ostrow wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 17:26 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: |
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>> Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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>> > We've had a global vision for where Gentoo is going from before I |
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>>> joined - Gentoo is here to create a source-based distribution where |
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>>> each package is as close to what $UPSTREAM intended it to be as |
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>>> possible. We're not trying to take $UPSTREAM packages and innovate |
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>>> with them - we're here to do a first class job of packaging them up. |
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>> Um, that's a mission statement, not a vision. A vision is a series of |
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>> goals for a project, like "my vision is that we will produce knoppix |
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>> like catalyst+template releases for myth, firewalls-on-a-disk, etc by |
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>> the 2007.0 release." a mission statement is "we'll make the best from |
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>> source distro ever." i.e, mission statements never change because they |
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>> are just an overarching definition of a project, not the vision or goal |
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>> it might be working towards at the moment. |
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>> somebody shoot me, my job in middle management is finally getting to me. |
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> Exactly... |
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> Above and beyond that is the next step...once you have a vision...ok so |
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> what do we need to do to further the vision, do we need more devs doing |
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> X, do we need hardware Y, do we need an Ice Cream machine... |
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> Leadership is way more then just shouting a vision out to the world and |
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> expecting people to hop to it...its about helping facilitate that |
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> visions completion, keeping yourself involved so those working on it |
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> feel involved themselves...leadership is just as much a community |
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> building exercise as any of the rest of it. |
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> --Dan |
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Vision says who we are and why we are here. It speaks to our shared |
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values and what makes us a community. Once you have a vision, you need |
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Strategy. A Strategy describes the big plays you are going to make to |
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achieve your vision. Examples might be, "We want to be the biggest |
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distro, or We want to be the most user friendly distro, or We want to |
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capture the enterprise market for Linux, etc. Once you have your |
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Strategy, you need a plan and the plan must match the Strategy. Once |
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you have a plan, you execute. That's what leadership does. |
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My 2 cents. |
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Mike |
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