Contributors and other community members have been asking for more clarification of Fedora's objectives and mission. The Fedora Board, as a community governance body, agreed to take on this topic, as shown in several of our previous meetings' minutes. We've decided to tackle this problem in several phases. The first phase involves making a general mission statement that clearly declares the Fedora Project's reason for existence -- what we are trying to achieve. This is not the statement that can or should answer every single question about how the Project works, or how we prioritize different types of initiatives. Those statements will follow, but they should all support this overall mission: "To lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community." The three elements of this mission are clear: * The Fedora Project always tries to lead, not follow. * The Fedora Project consistently seeks to create, improve, and spread free/libre code and content. * The Fedora Project succeeds through shared action on the part of many people throughout our community. In preparation for the next phase, we've built out a Foundations page on the wiki to help describe the Fedora core values -- Freedom, Friends, Features, and First. These Foundations help ensure that as we pursue specific objectives, we do so in a way that's in line with our community's beliefs and shared values. For instance, if one were to formulate the objective of "wait for Distro X to solve problem Y," one would quickly find this objective to be out of sync with at least our Features and First values. Next the Board will be embarking on defining a set of broad objectives, envisioning how we can achieve the mission. This is at least in part a responsibility of the project leader, so I'll take a strong interest in helping the Board build out those objectives in a way that helps our whole community understand their underlying rationale. A number of these objectives may already be documented, and I don't expect there will be any major surprises in this content. My hope is that we'll be providing information that helps people understand the basis for our processes, but still encourages contributors to try new avenues as well. We don't want to shut ourselves off from new and different ideas, as long as they support the mission and values our community shares. Thanks for reading, and viva Fedora! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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