Re: Web:Introduction: Rename "Our Goal" box (issue 48430043)

[Urs Liska]

Am 07.01.2014 15:18, schrieb Phil Holmes:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
> To: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>; "Carl Peterson"
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> Subject: Re: Web:Introduction: Rename "Our Goal" box (issue 48430043)
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> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>
> >
> > > > I believe I had suggested "purpose." I realize that's not much better
> > > > than goal/mission, but it's less corporate than "mission," and is more
> > > > focused on why we exist than what we think we've accomplished (as goal
> > > > and objective are), in my opinion.
> > > >
> > > > Carl P.
> > >
> > > Yes I recall that. For me this somehow sounds wrong - but again that
> > > may be due to my non-native "ear".
> > > Phil, what do you think about "purpose"?
> > >
> > > Urs
> >
> >
> > To me, it's a very uninspiring word.  NASA had a goal of landing a man
> > on the moon (http://history.nasa.gov/moondec.html).  Its purpose was
> > much more mundane.
> >
> > --
> > Phil Holmes
>
> Found the quote: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to
> achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the
> moon and returning him safely to the earth."
>
> http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-Legacy/NASA-Moon-Landing.aspx
>
> --
> Phil Holmes

As in fact no single suggestion proves to be significantly better than 
the status quo, I'll upload a new patchset with the original "Goal".
Then anybody still has the chance to come up with the holy grail.
Oops, didn't want to slip in such a visionary metaphor ;-)

Urs