Mission Statement for the Adoption Group for OpenJDK

[Cecilia Borg]

Thanks Daniel,
I finally got around to signing up for the mailing list, I've been reading up on the archive. 

I think the discussion is good, having one short, "selling" catch phrase and then a for the interested reader, a more descriptive text in addition. 

From what I read of it, this group is a broker between what is most needed to be done within OpenJDK and to promote/facilitate where the larger Java community would be of best help.
Form the discussions in the early emails, the more descriptive text should reflect the "scalability" aspect, that the group promotes projects that don't impose extra work on the people in OpenJDK.
The text should reflect that so many people can make substantial contribution, without submitting code. Early access builds' testing, etc. The group is not only for coders, if you get what I mean. (It's so easy to believe small contributions doesn't matter)

Cecilia


17 feb 2014 kl. 10:21 skrev Daniel Bryant:

> 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
> 
> 
> 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
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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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