[Hamara-devel] Mission and Vision statement of hamaralinux.org ?

[shirish]

at bottom :-

On 06/04/2015 10:04 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
> On 04/06/15 16:39, shirish wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> We don't seem to have a mission statement. What we have is just a
>> small blurb on hamaralinux.org
>>
>> "Hamara is a vision of an open source system of exchange: of skills,
>> knowledge, and ideas. Technology as an empowering platform for
>> democracy, collaboration " - Hamaralinux.org
>
> That's almost a mission statement, could easily be adapted.
>
> We have also used "gnu/linux for the worlds largest democracy"
>>
>> Apart from that nothing. Of course there is the question that do we
>> want to make a mission statement at all or not ?
>>
> Yes I think we do
>>
>>
>>
>> There is also no vision statement, and again do we need to have ?
> I think a missions statement is sufficient.  Have a go at drafting one
> from the the text above and what you know of the project and it's goals
> that we have discussed?
>
>
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So let's start with what I know of the project so far :-

a. We are in the process of building an educational distribution for all.

Target Audience - Actually Debian has it all targeting all age-groups 
and there is much more that is not packaged still and there always will 
be software which is outside Debian as well, been around long enough to 
realize that simply because we can't get enough developers to do it all.

Primary target audience for now is students who are studying preschool, 
primary and secondary education.

There is also quite a large collection of softwares for people studying 
in specialized verticals such as finance, banking, Medicine, Engineering 
(Mechanical, Industrial you name it), humanities, arts the list just 
goes on and on.

One of our tasks is to maintain communication with the various upstreams 
(a large task in itself).

b. We are also want to help out developers. There are something like 15+ 
odd computer languages in Debian which is a drop when we see that there 
are something like 300+ odd computer languages out there.

Again vast tasks as I'm sure there are niche computer languages which 
just need somebody to package it.

c. We also hope to do quite a bit of localization, probably first 
staring with the website, the wiki, the blog entries and also all and 
any softwares that we are packaging. Again large task in itself.

d. Apart from all this, we also want to support small and medium 
businesses using the same distribution.

As far as our revenues are concerned, we would generate revenues both 
from small and medium businesses and schools via support contracts and 
deployments as well. Trainings would also form an important component as 
far as schools are concerned.

Even localization could earn us big revenues provided we are ready to 
walk that extra mile. I have some ideas for that but that could be 
discussed when the time comes for it.


@Vikas - Have I missed something as far as goals are concerned ?

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org