Context

We've defined our organizational mission in this Google Doc. Here is the language that we used:

2i2c’s mission is to advance research and education by providing services, support, and development for open source tools in interactive computing and data science.

We've also since listed some mission/values information listed in the Our Values and Principles section of the About page (in fact our team compass points to this page).

Here is the language we use there:

Our mission is to make research and education more impactful, accessible, and delightful by developing, operating, and supporting infrastructure for interactive computing.

Finally in a recent brainstorm for SciPy, @yuvipanda and I came up with a slightly refined version of the above:

2i2c makes interactive computing more impactful through community-centered
open infrastructure services

Many of these were defined in the early days of 2i2c, and we now have a larger team than before, and our thinking about our mission has sharpened over time. As we are taking stock of our mission, strategy, and organizational structure, let's use this as an opportunity to refine our mission¹.

Proposal

We should reflect on the mission that we have listed, with the goal of proposing any modifications that we'd like to make. Ultimately, we should have a mission statement that has the following qualities.

• Is explicit, and defined in our Team Compass rather than in 2i2c.org/about
• Is something we all agree is a mission we can get behind

- [x] Chris puts together early draft of slides
- [ ] Rounds of feedback on [the org and strategy proposal slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MKl1eMAix2qL5XsuBsagb6H52_CtJXlGLXZnICvdtSY/edit?usp=sharing)
- [ ] No objections
- [ ] Formalize in team compass