All Together As A Whole Mission Statement
THE MISSION
THE CHALLENGE
GAME PLAN
Envision the dream
SUSTAIN THE EFFORT
- Be an empowered, positive, active, contributing and collaborative free software community.
THE CHALLENGE
- Bring the community together, learn to discuss topics (simple and difficult) and find ways to look for solutions that work for most, if not all, participants.
- Find what we collectively want available for the project, organize ourselves, do the work, and contribute the results to the project.
GAME PLAN
Envision the dream
- Develop a culture of respect, collaboration, communication, openness, and trust.
- Focus on the work, the code, the training material, the user interfaces, the results, the common good, and the technology.
- Creating an environment where each voice can be heard and acknowledged regardless of reputation, experience, race, religion, gender, nationality, language spoken or sexual orientation.
SUSTAIN THE EFFORT
- With the ATAAW group's enthusiastic approval and leadership, and with the Joomla project's involvement and support, develop the tools and environment needed to work together and spread this type of open thinking throughout the Joomla Community.
- And most of all To have FUN
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Permalink Reply by Manoel J. Silva on -
I'd like to see if possible a statement about equality of race, religion, gender and sexual orientation perhaps add this to game plan bullet 3
While we're at it; nationality, language/idiom...
Thumbs up!
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Permalink Reply by Robert Vining on -
Great idea Brian.
I want to discuss the part about Sustain the Effort. I would like to see it cover a broader goal than to move this base camp into j.org. I don't think that is worded quite right.
I would like to see it worded closer to this:
Develop the tools and environment needed to work together with the project's involvement and support, and with the group's enthusiastic approval and leadership, spread this type of open thinking throughout the Joomla Community.
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Permalink Reply by Amy Stephen on
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+1,000 - good job.
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Permalink Reply by Robert Vining on
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Thank you Leo, I did rearrange the wording a bit more than my above comment, but I think it really fits better with our Mission now.
Thanks again for everyone's input on this matter, it's a very important part of who we are.
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Permalink Reply by Mustaq Sheikh on -
@all great job with this : )
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Permalink Reply by Robert Vining on
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Good eye Leo! Fixed!
Thanks!
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Permalink Reply by HarryB on -
...Creating an environment where each voice can be heard and acknowledged regardless of reputation, experience, race, religion, gender, nationality, language spoken or sexual orientation....>
...and age and physical challenges and political views and on and on.
To each their own and the majority rules. However, I think this is a bit over the top and should be limited to a simple "...where every voice will be heard and acknowledged."
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Permalink Reply by HarryB on
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I understand the intent. Guess my colonial version of the English language did not state my point in a clear and lucid manner.
My point is that no matter how many groups you delineate in the statement, one or more will be overlooked.
And, my statement regarding the "majority" had to do with agreeing with whatever the majority of the ATAAW Commnunity eventually decides the mission statement will contain, no more and no less.
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Permalink Reply by Klas on -
Looks good.
Only mention of "regardless of experience" could be problematic as (in my opinion) this should not turn into another joomla general population support forum, site's scope should be limited to developers & site builders where certain level of professional experience & knowledge is expected
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Permalink Reply by Robert Vining on
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@Harry and Brian - I wonder about this now that you bring it up, the more we include the more we may miss a group. We may want to think about this a bit more.
That is the main reason I left the comments open on this discussion thread, simply because I plucked this copy of the Mission Statement from the disussion that was started by Mark Bender (thanks Mark!) back in October and it was never finalized and published as a front page article. It needed to be resurrected and made easily available.
@Klas - This is true, but I'm thinking our Welcome message in the top left corner of the front page covers that pretty well...
"Professional Independant Developer and Web Site Builder Network for collaboration and involvement with a focus on Joomla!. This is not a support forum or an official Joomla! group. Please use the Joomla! Forums for support."
Otherwise, we do open our doors to new professional site builders that are taking a swing at making a living with joomla sites. So I think the experience part is suitable as it is.
Anyone else have an opinion on either parts of the statement?
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Permalink Reply by Manoel J. Silva on
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As far as support is concerned, this announcement makes it very clear:
...We are not an official Joomla! resource, and we are not a support forum for using Joomla!. If you need help using Joomla!, please use the Joomla! Forum.
http://www.alltogetherasawhole.org/forum/topics/new-here-read-this-...
Klas said:Looks good.
Only mention of "regardless of experience" could be problematic as (in my opinion) this should not turn into another joomla general population support forum, site's scope should be limited to developers & site builders where certain level of professional experience & knowledge is expected
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Permalink Reply by Klas on
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Sorry, missed that.
Still think that scope should be made more permanent and somehow incorporated in the mission statement (in a positive way) -
e.g. "Be an empowered, positive, active, contributing and collaborative free software community of Joomla developers and site builders"
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