Months ago, we discussed a refocusing of the ComDev mission, which we've made some progress on here: http://community.apache.org/about/
I had an inspiration this morning, and wrote the following, which I would like to propose as our new mission statement, to be included on the website and in our board reports: ------------------------- The Community Development project creates and provides tools, processes, and advice, to help open source software projects improve their own community health. We are, of course, primarily focused on Apache Software Foundation projects. However, because we believe that the Apache Way is, in fact, the best way to manage a software project, we strive also to make these artifacts releasable to the open source community as a whole. ------------------------- I feel like this provides a clear path for our activities, as well as a goal of being a beacon for the entire open source world, with our experience and philosophy. In the spirit of lazy consensus, I'm going to make that paragraph edit on our website unless there are objections. (This won't happen for several days, since I'm traveling, so there's time for folks to speak up.) --Rich
