On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 06:06:30PM +0000, Neil Chue Hong (SSI) wrote: > So nothing particularly problematic, but perhaps we should think > about ensuring our mission and vision are broadcast as clearly as > possible.
I think a mission/vision blurb that's either on the main page or prominent under the “About Us” menu [1] would be good. The current main page blurb [2] is really short, and the current “About Us” text [3] is also very high-level. Compressing part of the best-practices paper [4] down into a paragraph or two for a mission/vision post would probably help with these sorts of things. Somewhat related, the SCF already has a mission document [5], but it seems designed to keep SCF members focused instead of being designed to explain ourselves to the wider world. Cheers, Trevor [1]: http://software-carpentry.org/ [2]: “Teaching basic lab skills for research computing” [3]: http://software-carpentry.org/about/ [4]: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745 [5]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/board/blob/56dfcdee68687cccd58a6db1c8262c9884e794b8/mission-statement.md -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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