Group Mission Statment?

[Abraham Williams]

Since the new site is nearing bata stage I figure we should iron out a mission statement. 

Starting points:

Something I wrote while lacking sleep: "Web608 is a loose collective of like minded individuals in the greater Madison area who are interested in technology and the development of the internet.'

Web414's about page: http://web414.com/about

Anybody want to take a whack at it? I'm thinking 3-5 sentences for the front page and 3-5 paragraphs for the about page. 

Abraham

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[Geekazine-Jeffrey Powers]

I would do something like this:

Web608 is an incubator of sorts for all Web Developers, New Media
Artists and Marketeers that will help grow the web community in the
Madison and surrounding area. By bringing together people in the
Southern Wisconsin area, we can work and learn from each other to
build a stronger understanding while enriching each others lives.

Rough - off the top of my head.

[Alnisa Allgood]

Could we mix Abraham's 'loose collective' with Jeffrey's statement.
Maybe something more like:

...
Web608 is a collective for Web Developers, New Media Artists and

Marketeers that will help grow the web community in the Madison and
surrounding area. By bringing together people in the Southern
Wisconsin area, we can work and learn from each other to build a
stronger understanding while enriching each others lives.

...

I just thought incubator was too strong of a word, and adding 'loose'
was possible too lacking of intent. But a collective sounds nice, a
grouping of people who can use forward motion to create something or
can just hang if necessary. I'm not certain about new media artists
and marketeers (just the names, not the types: I know there seems to
be some back in forth between New Media/Social Media, etc.) and
personally, I think marketeers come to anything, no need to directly
invite them (but that's just me). Additionally is web developers too
limiting. I know we (Nonprofit Tech) break our web group out into
designers, developers, writers, scripters/programmers (the people who
adapt and accumulate new languages). I've seen lots of web
professional who don't consider themselves developers.

Alnisa

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[Pete Prodoehl]

Just a note.... one problem we've had with Web414 is that some of the
hardcore tech people think we are design focused, and some designers
think we are too tech focused... I mean, that's what I often hear. We
try our best to mix it up between then two design/tech but there's
still people who just aren't sure. Ideally, we want to be a good
cross of the two parts, where most groups in Milwaukee are very much
one or the other. We've also got entrepreneurs, publishers,
photographers, videographers, etc...


Pete

[Douglas A. Whitfield]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Pete Prodoehl <pe...@rasterweb.net> wrote:

Just a note.... one problem we've had with Web414 is that some of the
hardcore tech people think we are design focused, and some designers
think we are too tech focused... I mean, that's what I often hear. We
try our best to mix it up between then two design/tech but there's
still people who just aren't sure. Ideally, we want to be a good
cross of the two parts, where most groups in Milwaukee are very much
one or the other. We've also got entrepreneurs, publishers,
photographers, videographers, etc...

Open Everything has the same issue of tech vs. not-tech.  If anybody has thoughts on this, I'd love to hear them.