Talk:Mission Statement

Uh oh...this link was empty! Seems like if there is an official mission statement, it should be clearly stated somewhere in the wiki. I took this from the web page's "About Free Geek" page. Is this the definitive mission statement? Can somebody verify?

--Pete 12:29, 25 Aug 2005 (PDT)

Doug and I went to the meeting tonight. The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss the mission statement. I believe that we gave it a very worthy effort. What is the next step to confirming what we decided for the mission statement?

-- 13 Nov 2005 (PDT)

What meeting was that? If there are more like it, I'd be interested in attending.

--Pete 17:05, 4 Dec 2005 (PST)

I deleted the references to "slogans" from this site because slogans are a pr tool used to communicate what it is we do, and a mission statement is a core-level, sudo-privilege kinda thing that should be much more difficult to alter. The two are easily confused, which is the inherent problem; but I feel it is critical to keep them absolutely separate. They should be in concert, but they are discrete things.

-- Tonyc 03:21, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

I recovered the slogans and moved them to Free Geek Slogans. And I also protected the page so people won't casually change the thing.

-- RfS 15:28, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

It was my intent to place the slogans onto their own page, but rfs beat me to it. I created the page Slogans this morning and placed them there, then noticed it was redundant. We could kill either one of these, since they're identical.

I don't see why it's necessary to protect this page. It's a wiki. you can't break it if you try and enough people are watching it to keep it honest. If I'd placed the slogans on their own page right away, it might have looked less haphazard. But I don't feel my edit was casual at all. Tonyc 18:49, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

It's protected because ...

... it's an actual official state approved thing (like our bylaws). In the past people have come to the mission statement as if it were a marketing slogan, thinking we could tweak it willy nilly to suit our purposes. (That would be true in a for profit business, but not in our case.) The bylaws and our articles of incorporation are also protected pages as well.

Tony's edit was not casual, not what triggered the protection of the page. It should've been protected all along.

RfS 21:10, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Tony was being hypersensitive. I'd insert an emoticon here, but with wiki text it would probably reformat something. Thinking about creating a link to bylaws and slogans from this page. Tonyc 00:21, 5 March 2009 (UTC)