openSUSE Strategy Discussion - Introduction

As announced previously, the openSUSE Board and its Strategy Team have worked 
on three strategic proposals to define the direction of openSUSE's future, as 
a Project, Community and distribution.  Each strategy proposal includes the 
same community statement.  We will therefore discuss the community statement 
and the three strategies separately.
Focused Discussion

To have a focused discussion, we like to handle the discussion as follows on 
both opensuse-project mailing list and the openSUSE forums:

   1. Present today all three strategy proposals and the community statement, 
they are available on the wiki - http://en.opensuse.org/Documents/Strategy
   2. We will start discussing the community statement now in its own thread.
   3. Monday, June, 21st: We start a new thread to discuss the strategy 
proposal "openSUSE â€" Home for developers".
   4. Thursday, June, 24th: We start a new thread to discuss the strategy 
proposal "openSUSE â€" Base for derivatives".
   5. Tuesday, June, 29th: We start a new thread to discuss the strategy 
proposal "openSUSE â€" Mobile and cloud ready distribution".

What do we want to achieve with these discussions?

    * Refine the proposals, e.g. remove or add activities
    * Discuss what needs to be done for each strategy proposal
    * Figure out which strategy proposal is best, so pros and cons of each 
ones.

Note that each statement contains three lists of activities describing current 
activities the openSUSE Project does and possible future activities (or 
tasks).  The first list ("We need to be excellent in the following") describes 
the items that we want to do really excellent and better than everybody else.  
The second list ("We will try to do the following effectively") are needed to 
do but we don't need to strive for excellence, just for effectiveness.  The 
third list ("We will not focus on the following anymore") are activities we 
will not do at all as part of the project but rather rely on other FOSS 
projects.

In the end, we'd like to have a vote by the openSUSE members on which strategy 
to choose.

Pavol Rusnak and Andreas Jaeger will consolidate comments and proposal changes 
for these in the openSUSE wiki.

Andreas
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