Change the name and refocus this group?

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With the recent launch of https://www.drupal.org/project/funding, the need for such a group is much greater than when it launched. Would it make sense to rename and refocus into more of a working group? How about doing the following?

1) Change the name of this group to SustainDrupal
2) Review, update and incorporate elements of this Snowball charter into SustainDrupal

  • People who would like to support an idea but cannot do it all themselves do not have a way to move forward.
  • Potential collaborators do not have clarity on what proposals exist, who has committed to working on them, and the specification of what is proposed to be done. This lack of clarity can lead to duplication of effort, and consequent underresourcing of efforts.
  • Potential supporters do not have a good way of understanding the level of technical vetting a proposal has.
  • Potential supporters do not always have a transparent view of the risks to a proposal's success.
  • Many good developers are using Free Software, not contributing to Free Software, even though they would prefer to work directly on projects benefiting the community.

3) Create #sustaindrupal channel in Drupal Slack
4) Identify roles and find some folks interested in contributing to this type of initiative
5) Create an Open Collective as a tool to sustain the SustainDrupal initiative

Does anyone else have some thoughts on this approach or need for this type of working group?

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