Initial organizational work

[Ryan Rempel]

Greetings, @elm-community/manifesto

So, thanks for accepting the invitation to join this little enterprise -- I hope this ends up being a useful way of doing some collaborative things.

In order to move organizational discussion and documentation away from the forums (which was a great start), I've created a 'Manifesto' repository. I've put up an initial README that tries to set out some guiding principles. Not that we need to be very bureaucratic, of course, but it can be helpful to say something :-)

So, take a look at that and see if it seems OK -- feel free to discuss here, or indeed make changes (you should all have write access to it).

I mentioned at the end of the README that I'm the 'owner' in Github terms. I've actually also made @laszlopandy an 'owner', for the sake of redundancy. But I didn't actually ask him if that's OK, so let me know if you'd prefer not to be!

[Ryan Rempel]

I managed to get the README link wrong at first -- I've corrected it now :-)

[Max Goldstein]

This all sounds good, but let's not get too caught up in "doing work about work". (I recognize that in large companies, "work about work" is very necessary, but for a few people in open source, let's cut to the chase.)

You can also have a look at this thread to see discussion of who should take ownership and maintenance vs. active development.

I'm hoping to write a guide about Randomness (after answering one too many SO questions). I also want to work on elm-package and smooth out the rough edges.