Fedora's Core Purposes

[Michael Tiemann]

John Poelstra wrote:
> I was recently reviewing this page and a number of other pages that 
> talk about the Fedora Project (not our the Fedora distribution)
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives
>
> I'm working a blog post that provides more detail on this.  In the 
> meantime, I think this page could be broken into three primary 
> purposes and each of the bullets merged under those purposes.
>
> 1) Building and releasing a distribution
Insert                                      ^ free (as in freedom)
> 2) Building communities
> 3) Furthering the science (methodologies) and practice of building 
> communities
>
> I think it is important that we place a tight limit on the number of 
> *core* purposes.  Is there anything else that the Fedora Project does 
> that could not be captured under these three headings?
If you don't like "free", you can insert "principled" and explain that 
we define a set of course *values* to which our purposes are means of 
expression of those values.

M