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