This is a set of guiding principles that we wrote down at the first meeting of the Sakai Foundation Board. This is really a brainstorming session more than anything else – but the nicely capture some of the truths about Sakai.

They are not “adopted” – just discussed.

There is acceptance that contribution to the code and contribution to the project will be provided in a variety of forms. That is encouraged and made as easy as possible.

The only way to positively effect the outcome of Sakai is to contribute resources to the project.

The focus of centralized activities will be to maximize the effectiveness of the community, making the large number of resources as effective as they can be.

The Sakai Foundation central staff will be light weight and push the work back on the community.

All the processes and activities in the Sakai community should strive for as much transparency and syndication of its activities as possible in recipient friendly format.

The process needs to be clear and well-known and well-publicized so that anybody in the community knows how to participate to make something happen.

To ensure the guiding principles of the foundation vision is clear to the community.

Sakai is on a trajectory and will continue to evolve in various areas, with some things being more or less mature.