On 18 April 2017 at 07:23, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Josh Cox <jcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I also think "free" shouldn't be dropped from the mission statement. The "lights up hardware, clouds, and containers" part seems unnecessary to me, if the mission statement needs to be shortened. >> >> Perhaps something like this: >> "Fedora creates a free and innovative platform for software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users." >> >> Even with those changes, I feel like the current mission statement does a better job of emphasizing the values of freedom, innovation, and community with fewer words. > > A mission statement's purpose is not to describe a project's values. > It is to describe what the project is doing or working towards. It > should be measurable and finite, not open ended and impossible to > measure. > > Fedora has the four foundations to describe our project values. I believe the disconnect you are seeing is that we have values but people don't see them reflected in the mission statement. From previous exercises in this, you have two important things: you start with Shared Core Values (SCV) you end up heading towards your Vision Statement (VS). A mission statement is how you take/use/recognize those values to get towards your vision. The We have a bunch of core values in our 4 F's. Freedom, Friends, Features, First We have a vision statement ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Vision_statement ): The Fedora Project creates a world where free culture is welcoming and widespread, collaboration is commonplace, and people control their content and devices. The mission statement (taken from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview) is connect those two together: Old: The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of Free and open source software and content as a collaborative community. New: Fedora creates an innovative platform that lights up hardware, clouds, and containers for software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users. The old one does the verbal connecting by taking bits from each of the values and vision and stitching them together. The new one seems less of a match and so people are wondering if it needs new values or a new vision. -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list -- council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to council-discuss-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
