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

[Vikas Tara]

On 04/06/15 18:35, shirish wrote:
> 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 ?
>
Only one thing - which is DIY electronics to enable things like rural 
access / access to computers for greater numbers at lower cost.

I guess this is a mission statement for the hamara project as a whole 
rather than the distro - or perhaps they are one and the same thing :)