Fedora's Core Purposes

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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
>> 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?
> 
> Heck, couldn't 3 and 2 be merged?
> 
> and consider adding:
> furthering ... blah blah... of FLOSS ?  though could even go a step 
> further and not limit it to just software, but include content (CC and 
> all that) as well.

On second thought, following the same logic, this could be considered 
part of 1 I guess, though a distribution may be just a natural 
consequence of achieving/following the FLOSS goal.

-- Rex