Re: F-Spot mission statement

[Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>]

> F-Spot aims to help you manage your digital photos in a powerful yet 
> highly-intuitive way.  It makes common tasks like finding a certian 
> photo or photos quickly, organizing via tags, doing minor touchups, and 
> sharing with friends and familiy trivial.  In addition, more powerful 
> features for expert users are available where it is possible to do so 
> without sacrificing userfriendliness.  It also strives to be standards 
> compliant and interoperable with other programs all the while being 
> available under the GPL.

Hmm.   I rather don't like "In addition, more powerful features for 
expert users are available where it is possible to do so without 
sacrificing userfriendliness."  I've never believed that expert 
functions *HAVE* to have a negative impact on user-friendlyness...

I really believe that f-spot needs to target both naive *AND* expert 
users.

To be blunt, I consider myself an expert user, and if f-spot's mission 
doesn't explicitly address my needs...   Well, that doesn't exactly 
convince me to contribute to the project, does it?

I also agree with John that shorter is better than longer.   I don't 
think words like 'standards' really need to be in a mission statement.

How about something like:

F-Spot helps you manage your digital photos in a powerful yet 
highly-intuitive way.  It provides easy ways to perform common tasks 
like finding a certain photo or photos quickly, organizing photos via 
tags, doing minor touchups, and sharing photos with friends and family.

(basically - the first two sentences from above, restructured a bit)

Warren