[Ubuntu-PH] Defining the Ubuntu Philippine Local Community Team

[Ealden Esto E. Escañan]

Hi Zak,

On 10/21/05, Zak Elep <zakame at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We could also meet weekly to quickly resolve the small issues, and
> then have "hack festivals" over IRC and EB every three months or so,
> may even bi-annually, to stamp out bigger obstacles.  Of course, this
> assumes we have something to work on, and I think we won't have any
> shortage of that ;)

Yes.  I'm in the process of rewriting TeamGoals[1] based a recent
"announced just 2 minutes before!" meeting.  I've been loaded these
past few that's though, but hopefully I can finish that tonight.

http://ubuntu-ph.org/Wiki/TeamGoals

For a meeting, is 26 Oct 2005, 12:00 UTC at #ubuntu-ph at irc.freenode.net good?

>
> > A possible long term goal of this team formation is the formulation of
> > a Vision/Mission statement for the Ubuntu Philippine LoCo Team.
>
> I suggest a very realistic and flexible set of Vision/Mission goals, like this:
>
>    Vision: To see Ubuntu Linux running as the primary Operating System on
>    almost all Philippine desktop and laptop PCs in current and future
> use by 2007,
>    or 2010 at the latest.

The problem I see here is that this is more mission/objective (VMO)
than a vision.  Visions should be everlasting, or close to that,
because change-in-visions can be disruptive to entities such as what
we are forming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_statement#Mission_statements_and_vision_statements

Missions, on the other hand, is dependent on the current situation,
and thus can change as long as it fulfills the vision.  I believe your
vision statement above fits this.

> Our goals ought to be realistic enough to be realized within some time
> frame.  It also ought to be flexible enough so that we can change
> goals at any time once some condition is met, so as to not get
> ourselves thrashing in the tar pit of obsolesence.

Agreed.

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Ealden Esto E. Escañan
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