[FM Discuss] a crazy moment pondering a manifesto

[James Simmons]

Mission statements?  Has the movie Jerry Maguire taught us NOTHING?

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James Simmons


On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:51 AM, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:

> as i have said before, i dont think we need mission statements etc
>
> we work fine, lets not formulate who we are. its like a good party - if
> you are having fun and things are working then just let it roll...making
> rules for it kills the dynamic and the fun.
>
> we know what we are, thats good enough
>
>
> adam
>
>
> On 06/28/2012 04:40 PM, Tomi Toivio wrote:
>
>> 2012/6/27 Andy Oram<andyo at oreilly.com>
>>
>>  I'm a bit late to this discussion, but I want to point out that most
>>> organizations have mission statements, and some also have value
>>> statements
>>> that work like the manifesto Adam is talking about.
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, and to explain what FM is doing in terms that are commonly understood
>> is actually very difficult, if you think about people who are not into
>> open
>> source yet, and who are actually the ones who need the manuals the most.
>>
>> You could start by explaining that FM is like a wiki, but actually it is
>> quite different from a normal wiki. Then you notice that many people
>> actually don't know how a wiki works.
>>
>> Then you can add the confusion about freeware vs. open source. The concept
>> of open source is actually hard to understand unless you know something
>> about computer programming. So many people just think about freeware.
>>
>> I have also noticed that many people tend to get scared of the manuals
>> since they expect they have to learn something extremely complicated.
>>
>> There is a need for something like a video introduction into FM that can
>> be
>> easily translated into various languages.
>>
>> Regards
>> Tomi
>>
>>
>>
>>
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