All Together As A Whole Mission Statement...
With all the talk about what we are trying to accomplish with this joint effort ( developers resources/comparisons directory, educational tools for open source developers, etc ), it got me thinking that we need to get a clear idea of what we are trying to accomplish. There are several (at least 2+) ideas/projects that are being discussed, and a couple of times the threads have gotten "inter twined" with each other.
Something that might clear these matters up would be creating a Mission Statement for the project:
I googled "Open Source Mission Statement" (w/o quotes in search) and the first link was the Open Source Application Foundation Mission Statement. Take some time to read it!
Considering who we are, and what we are going to do, this seems like a good example of what info that we need to create a Mission Statement of our own.
The continuation of this subject can be found here:
Something that might clear these matters up would be creating a Mission Statement for the project:
I googled "Open Source Mission Statement" (w/o quotes in search) and the first link was the Open Source Application Foundation Mission Statement. Take some time to read it!
Considering who we are, and what we are going to do, this seems like a good example of what info that we need to create a Mission Statement of our own.
The continuation of this subject can be found here:
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Permalink Reply by Amy Stephen on
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Good initiative!
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Become an empowered, positive, active, contributing and collaborative free software community.
I believe this will happen if we can:
- Bring our community back together, learn to discuss even difficult subjects 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.
- 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, the technology.
- Demonstrate with accomplishment, that the community is able to self-govern and develop consensus on direction and therefore should be empowered with responsibility and leadership.
- Develop the tools and environment needed to work together, and with the project's involvement and support, and with the group's enthusiastic approval and leadership, move this base camp into Joomla.org.
Those are some of my ideas. Thanks for asking!
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Permalink Reply by Mark W. Bender on -
Works for me! All very valid and attainable matters that we can have with this project.
Besides having the mission statement, a well outlined "who does what" would help the project team members. Not having an idea of who's is responsible for something makes it hard when you need someone to contact about that matter, but can't find out who that person is!
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Permalink Reply by Peter van Westen (NoNumber) on -
- Develop a culture of respect, collaboration, communication, openness, and trust
What is also important to not loose sight of: stay relaxed.
Keep the whole initiative a bit airy and fun.
I think this is very important to prevent this becoming some kind of uptight high tea members club.
"If you do something, do it well!"
I'd like to add: "If you can't do it well and still have fun, don't do it at all!"
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lol - Good.
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Mark - do you want to draft something and share it as a Blog post for feedback?
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Permalink Reply by Mark W. Bender on
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I'll start "compiling" the posts/thread/comments that I see around the forums/groups, and aim to get it done by the weekend.
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Mark - can you please add the proposed mission statement to the new About this site group?
Then, when you are done, will you please add a post that links to that new discussion, and close this thread?
Thanks!
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