All Together As A Whole Mission Statement

THE MISSION

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 Mark W. Bender on February 21, 2010 at 3:26pm

Robert Vining said:

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.
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?

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain

These last few days have been a bit "surreal" with what I have read about a LOT of important matters concerning both the ATAAW and Joomla! Community including OSM, and CoC.

Robert, kudos to you for resurrecting the ATAAW Mission Statement thread that I started way back in October. With what has "come to light" in the past few days started me thinking about our Mission Statement, and I was already composing some thoughts regarding the Mission Statement and our Communities recent happenings.
Less than 4 hours later, and I would have brought it back, but I'm glad that you did!

Maybe because of all these events, the Joomla! Code of Conduct needs to be revisited, if not an addendum for a "Code of Conduct" for OSM and CoC also.

I'm definitely a "Site Builder" more than a "Developer" and I want to learn more about the "code" that makes software like Joomla! "tick".

I'd like to also see in the Mission Statement in the Sustain the Effort section, what roles ATAAW and Joomla! fill regarding the Joomla! Community Magazine, and J! and Beyond (and any future events). Eventually once the JCM goes "on property", that will be "moot point".

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Permalink Reply by NicMason.com on April 24, 2011 at 9:24am

HarryB said:

...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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I agree with HarryB. A simple statement such as: "...where every voice will be heard and acknowledged." ...is all that's required.

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