On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:21:41 +0200, Alexandro Colorado I think the mission statement is and has been the worst thing on the front page for the last four years. However, I seem to remember Louis arguing that it had to be there, for political reasons. I hope this is my long-term memory playing up.
There were indeed political considerations. I'm not committed to it being there now. As I metioned before, the MS was a big effort on the part of the community and when we did take it off for a while there was a fair amount of complaint.
But let's see it off for a test. If lots of complaints, we can do what we did last time: put it back.
i think the mission statement should stay on the front page. more, i think it should be made more visible. however, i'm for a rewording, because i don't consider "provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format" something very friendly for first time visitors.
as an example, i kind of like the mission statement on the Gnome website (the "What is GNOME?" box) - http://www.gnome.org
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