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The following are notes taken in real time during the 2019 Community Summit in Barcelona. Several people participated in taking these, however Josh Gowans acted as secretary for day 1 and Erik Hommel did likewise on day 2.
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## Day 1
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1. Logistics overview by Alejandro and Luciano.
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2. Opening remarks by Joe Murray celebrating our history, our diversity and our growth through the years.
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3. Group introductions.
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During the agenda review and summary, the group discussed the difference between the New Jersey summit and this summit. In many respects, this is a “reset” in order to identify who we are and where we want to go before prescribing a specific outcome to get there. This is in contrast to the New Jersey summit where there was an underlying agenda to establish a control process over the project.
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The 2019 community summit will use ‘Planning For Real’ strategy to identify what we can do in the near, medium and long term to ‘make CiviCRM better’. This strategy consists of identifying issues and opportunities, organizing them into specific themes, and then applying a timeline as to when they could be done (near, medium and long term).
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Erik Hommel led off the morning session with an effort to identify who we are (and are not) and what our principles are (or should be). Defining who we are is more than a mission statement or vision statement. It’s defining our identity, our principles, and clarifying who we want to be today and in the future.
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### Who We Are Not
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The group broke into smaller groups to focus specifically on who we are not. Results include (not in specific order, several items were repeated across groups):
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- We are not centrally controlled
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- We are not homogenous or mono-cultural
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- We’re not lacking in principles
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- We’re not an exclusive community
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- We’re not just a product
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- We are not definable
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- We’re not always good communicators
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- We’re not Salesforce
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- We’re not just in it for the money
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- We’re not in control of the resources
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- We’re not a Saas
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- We’re not based on planning and control
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- We are not well known because we don’t do marketing
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- We’re not just takers
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- We’re not a company
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- We’re not monetizing user data
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- We’re not fast
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- We’re not a closed community
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- We’re not proprietary
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- We’re not greedy
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- We’re not broken
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- We’re not stagnant
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- We’re not negative
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- We’re not as diverse as we could be
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- We’re not conventional
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- We’re not in a fixed state, we can go where we want
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- We’re not here to get filthy rich
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- We’re not an organization
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- We’re not apolitical
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- We’re not good at marketing
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- We’re not enterprise, but not “dollar hosting”
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- We’re not a charity giving away something for free
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- We’re not all the same
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- We’re not efficient
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- We’re not one specific software purpose
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- We’re not nimble
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- We’re not easy
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### Who We Are (personal stories)
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Attendees voluntarily presented stories about CiviCRM and their involvement in the project. Stories mostly focused on what has driven people to be a part of and support the community, as well as why they believe in CiviCRM and its purpose to do social good. Some also presented challenges and provided feedback on difficulties in the market and the community. The net result was a heightened sense of appreciation for why we do what we do as a community and a deeper sense of camaraderie.
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### Our guiding principles
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Attendees broke into several groups and were tasked with considering CiviCRM’s guiding principles. As a basis point, groups were asked to start with the core principles documented by the establishment committee. In addition to the specific points below, nearly all groups indicated that the defined principles were mostly good, albeit long-winded and in need of simplification. In particular, the final principle, that being “CiviCRM is targeted at non-profits and social good.”, should be simplified to “CiviCRM exists to do good” and should be stated first.
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Individual group principles:
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#### Orange Team
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- Should be concise / clear / simple
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- Open and transparent
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- Inviting, welcoming, accessible
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- Actively inclusive and diverse
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- Focused on social collective good
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- Eco-sustainability
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- Peace? Social justice?
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- Where / do we draw the line
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- Definition of community is unlimited
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- Movement not based on CiviCRM
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- Data security and data autonomy
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#### Blue Team
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- Mission orientated vs profit orientated
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- Could be more concise
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- Not explicitly ordered but social good item should be at top
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- “Every non-profit should have affordable access to a world-class CRM”
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- Friendly welcoming community
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- As much a community as a software
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- Free software, democracy, control
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- Inclusive community, address barriers to participation
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- Promote community ethos
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#### Green Team
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- Long sentences are good with Germans and Ukranians, but these could be shorter
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- Some terms are missing
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- Community - include clients: Most successful projects are those where client becomes active community member
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- Privacy
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- Choice
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- lots of choices in CiviCRM - whether to use this or competing, service provider to use, extension selection
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- Should preserve freedom to choose
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- Diversity
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- Identify lack of diversity in community
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- Participatory
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- Democratic decision-making
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#### Brown Team
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- Some principle around community engagement re sustainability
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- CiviCRM is open source product & project and free and is owned by a community. Members of the community contribute and fund the project and are responsible for its sustainability.
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- CiviCRM community is focused on doing good.
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- Principles should instill security.
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