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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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