Rich Bowen wrote on 10/27/17 4:43 AM: > 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:
+1 > > ------------------------- > 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 s/the best way/one of the best ways/ We have a great method, but it's not the best of all possible ways for all communities. I think making the mission a superlative will bring more flak than it brings value. > 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 > -- - Shane https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
