[Foundation-l] Our values

[effe iets anders]

Hi Florence,

in general, a good post. Thanks for explaining what you read under
"values", so that there are no misunderstandings about that.

2008/1/29, Florence Devouard <anthere at anthere.org>:

> I have been thinking over it in the past few weeks, and here is the
> result of my list.
>
> * Community
> * Diversity
> * Quality of service
> * Transparency
> * Freedom
> * Independance
>
> Text is rough draft for now
>
<snip>
> Quality of service is a priority
> We will try our best to give access to high quality Wikimedia project
> content 24 hours a day and 7 days, as well as provide access to
> regularly updated, user-friendly, and free dumps of Wikimedia project
> content.
> To insure world-wide, unrestricted, dissemination of knowledge, we do
> not enter into exclusive partnerships, with regards to access to our
> content or use of our trademarks.
>
<snip>

Personally I don't feel that the order should be that important in
this post, although it is true that in a conflict between the values
(for instance between the Quality of service and the transperency,
which I expect to come up quite some times for staff, or between
Freedom and Quality of Service on one side and Independence on the
other) it should be roughly clear how valuable each of these values
are, which are the core values (Maybe we should look back to the
mission and goal stated in the articles of incorporation and bylaws
for that) and which are "how we tend to work". How we tend to work
might be very important to us though, so it is of course still a very
important value. However, in an equal conflict, the core values
(Freedom, Quality of Service) should imho always prevail over the "how
we tend to work" (Community, Diversity, Transperency). Independance is
in the middle between those I think.

But this also brings up to me that Quality of Service is not really a
fitting description. I find it very important that the content is
available. However, not per se only through our website service, but
maybe in the future also through DVD's, OLPC's, books and PDF's. And
who knows what else. I'd suggest to change that to Availability of
content or something similar, maybe someone else has a better
description.

Thanks for bringing this up to our attention,

Lodewijk