<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello Hugo, here is some feedback<div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:15.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Draft Mission Statement<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">We believe
everyone should have access to security and privacy tools, whoever they are,
wherever they are or whatever their personal beliefs are, as a fundamental
human right.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Better: <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background:yellow">We believe: the right to encrypt and the use of privacy
and security tools is a fundamental human right, that belongs to all human
beings – whoever they are, wherever they are or whatever their personal beliefs
are!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Comments: <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:18pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Say in the
first sentence what you want to say. That kernel is about a fundamental human right.
Say it first and not broken with yadda yadda wherever in the the middle.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:18pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Add what
you do: you encrypt. Strengthen and focus on that and don’t fade away into just
we make tools.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:18pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">To encrypt
is not a question of tools or libraries or some codings, it is today a question
of law. Hence we need the term for “Right to Encrypt”. It is currently in Europe
and especially Germany soon discusses by Government and implicitly be UK and EU
for breaking Encryption and the implication by law.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:18pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Include “All
human beings” as the second statement. No one is excluded, as the fundamental
human right is for all valid.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:18pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Mention Privacy
before Security. It is not about security of governmental processes (makro perspective)
or of the organizations and groups (meso perspective) it is about the micro
perspective: it is about the privacy of individuals – that is the right to
encrypt.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Our Values</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Changes in Yellow:</span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"inherit",serif">We believe all our
communities are important <span style="background:yellow">and inclusive.<span></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"inherit",serif">We believe in the
principles of open source software, not only for its inherent values but
also for the transparency<span style="background:yellow">, trust</span> and accountability it provides to <span style="background:yellow">our tools for encryption, privacy
security.<span></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"inherit",serif">We believe in
behaving in a manner that fosters <s>trust and</s> confidence, <span style="background:yellow">compliance and personal trust
in others.<span></span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"inherit",serif">We believe that our
governance and output should be transparent and open.<span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"inherit",serif">We believe that no
Government, Organisation or Individual should have undue influence over
the delivery of our mission, <span style="background:yellow">over our networking or over our results of work.<span></span></span></span></li>
</ul><div><font face="inherit, serif"><span style="font-size:18.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="inherit, serif"><span style="font-size:18.6667px">Probably add some operations:</span></font></div><div><font face="inherit, serif"><span style="font-size:18.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Our Means and Goals</span></b><font face="inherit, serif"><span style="font-size:18.6667px"><br></span></font></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"inherit",serif"><span style="background:yellow">We lead our teams, communities and working provesses in a competent way.</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background:rgb(248,248,248);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"inherit",serif"><span style="background:yellow">We have goals according to our mission and ideas and shre these transparently</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="inherit, serif"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">We continuously talk about our resources and networking</span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="inherit, serif"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">We strive for excellent processes to maintain our results of ideas and work</span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="inherit, serif"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">We strengthen our communities and teams</span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="inherit, serif"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">We see each human beeing as our customer and partner and act inclusively.</span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="inherit, serif"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">Our mission is our first ethic and social responsibility</span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="inherit, serif"><span style="font-size:18.6667px;background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">The results of our networking, work and comming together are presented reguarly.</span></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><br></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 11:09 AM Hugo Landau <<a href="mailto:hlandau@openssl.org">hlandau@openssl.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">OpenSSL has produced a new draft mission & values statement. Once<br>
finalised, we intend to realign all activities of the project to ensure<br>
they reflect our agreed mission and values. Before doing so however, we<br>
would like to obtain feedback on this statement from the public, to<br>
ensure it represents all of our communities.<br>
<br>
By offering us your feedback, you will help us to ensure the OpenSSL<br>
project is run in a way that reflects the values of all of our users.<br>
<br>
Please ensure you submit your feedback by 14th April 2023.<br>
<br>
For further information on the draft mission & values statement and<br>
details on how to submit feedback, please see:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2023/03/31/mission/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2023/03/31/mission/</a><br>
<br>
</blockquote></div>