A common practice in projects is to start from a "mission", and from there derive a strategy and roadmap.
That sort of structure usually causes people to re-create the same problems they might be (or might not be) hoping to fix, because our frame of thinking is still within the current systems, dominated by power structures, capitalism, proprietary software, centralized services, etc.
I believe starting from the vision is a critical part of truly being able to move towards the world we want to see, and to be trusted by the community in a decentralized nonviolent governance/project/system where human interdependence determines what's possible to do, rather than money or fear of authority.
The stuff in the new MISSION.md file is therefore based on the Vision Mobilization framework, that very highly resonates with me and I very highly recommend, and contains (in addition to values, which we already had):
- Vision: World we want to see (e.g. people freely collaborating on software and solving human problems and serving needs with it)
- Purpose: Our part in getting there (e.g. create and maintain a software forge that allows that)
- Mission: Our current top-level project towards the purpose (e.g. maintain Forgejo as a soft fork of Gitea with human-oriented governance and development practices)
From the mission we'll be deriving our roadmap.
I didn't fill in the vision/purpose/mission because it didn't feel right to suggest something myself. I'd like us to do this together :-) So left some "TODO" pieces where we'd put the actual content.
A common practice in projects is to start from a "mission", and from there derive a strategy and roadmap.
That sort of structure usually causes people to re-create the same problems they might be (or might not be) hoping to fix, because our frame of thinking is still within the current systems, dominated by power structures, capitalism, proprietary software, centralized services, etc.
I believe starting from the vision is a critical part of truly being able to move towards the world we want to see, and to be **trusted** by the community in a decentralized nonviolent governance/project/system where human interdependence determines what's possible to do, rather than money or fear of authority.
The stuff in the new `MISSION.md` file is therefore based on the [Vision Mobilization](https://visionmobilisation.org) framework, that very highly resonates with me and I very highly recommend, and contains (in addition to values, which we already had):
- Vision: World we want to see (e.g. people freely collaborating on software and solving human problems and serving needs with it)
- Purpose: Our part in getting there (e.g. create and maintain a software forge that allows that)
- Mission: Our current top-level project towards the purpose (e.g. maintain Forgejo as a soft fork of Gitea with human-oriented governance and development practices)
From the mission we'll be deriving our **roadmap**.
I didn't fill in the vision/purpose/mission because it didn't feel right to suggest something myself. I'd like us to do this together :-) So left some "TODO" pieces where we'd put the actual content.