Mission Statement for the Adoption Group for OpenJDK

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi all,

I've taken the liberty of using Daniel's modified version of the statement
with some extra explanation of sustainability and scalability.

We're slowly moving over relevant wiki content from the existing Adopt
OpenJDK programme at adoptopenjdk.java.net.  I'll be asking that community
to relabel itself as a general "Adopt Java" group, which means it can stay
as a comfortable home for projects such as Javacountdown.net which aren't
OpenJDK specific.

There will be lots of construction work on both sides of the fence for a
few weeks.

All comments/questions/feedback of course very welcome.

Cheers,
Martijn

On 18 February 2014 06:17, Steve Poole <SPOOLE at uk.ibm.com> wrote:

> Happy to see it go Daniel :-)
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> From:   Daniel Bryant <daniel.bryant at tai-dev.co.uk>
> To:     adoption-discuss at openjdk.java.net
> Date:   17/02/2014 18:22
> Subject:        Re: Mission Statement for the Adoption Group for OpenJDK
> Sent by:        adoption-discuss-bounces at openjdk.java.net
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> Hi all,
>
> Just bumping this thread so that Cecila can respond in context :-)
>
> The current proposal is below (and I'm wondering whether the word
> 'premier' is appropriate here, as per my latest email?)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Daniel
>
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> On 16/02/2014 07:10, Steve Poole wrote:
> > I rather like 'champion'  [1]  for the same reasons that  it used
> > within  'Java Champions' :-) .  However we could take a slightly
> > longer version of 'actively support' to give
> >
> > *"Actively promote and support community involvement in the
> > development, adoption and evangelism of premier OpenJDK projects"*
> >
> > [1] a person who actively supports or favors a cause
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Ben Evans <benjamin.john.evans at gmail.com>
> > To: Daniel Bryant <daniel.bryant at tai-dev.co.uk>
> > Cc: adoption-discuss at openjdk.java.net
> > Date: 14/02/2014 13:48
> > Subject: Re: Mission Statement for the Adoption Group for OpenJDK
> > Sent by: adoption-discuss-bounces at openjdk.java.net
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >
> > I wouldn't use the word "Champion" as it may invite confusion with the
> > Java
> > Champions programme, especially for non-EFL developers.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Daniel Bryant
> > <daniel.bryant at tai-dev.co.uk>wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Martijn, Mani (and all),
> > >
> > > Thanks Martijn, and I definitely see the logic behind making the
> mission
> > > statement punchy. I think Mani hit the nail on the head with this
> quote
> > >
> > >  It should answer questions like why am I joining, who is/are
> > benefiting,
> > >> what and how am I contributing
> > >>
> > >
> > > The mission statement should definitely answer the first part of this
> > > statement, and maybe the other two parts are covered in the vision
> > > statement?
> > >
> > > How about this for the mission statement:
> > >
> > > "Champion increased community involvement in the development,
> > adoption and
> > > evangelism of OpenJDK projects, with the ultimate goal of increasing
> > > contributions in a scalable manner"
> > >
> > > Does that capture everything, and do we need to go shorter?
> > >
> > >
> > > Best wishes,
> > >
> > > Daniel
> > >
> > >
> > >
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