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  Epsilon Maj Pain in the Ass My professor in entrepreneurship had a simple rule of thumb for new E-Business ideas: if you can't explain it in one or two sentences, it sucks. Not to pee on your parade here, but have you ever asked a little kid "Do you want $x?" and heard him say "Nah, I really don't need it nor can find something meaningful to do with that, I'll pass."? If you ask someone what he wants and give him the option "all of the above", in 90% of the cases that'll be the answer. So instead of asking: What do you want in the mission statement? - why not ask: What can we/you contribute to? Lets take a look at your options: 1.) Deregulation of the Internet (Net Neutrality etc) 2.) Privacy 3.) Education 4.) Security/Programming 5.) Challenges What can CA contribute to #1 ? Unless you start donation drives for US politicians that support the cause, I don't see how CA can make a contribution in that area. If someone wants to prove me wrong, please do so. Privacy/Education - if I am correctly informed the brigades/groups/members that have been assigned to those areas left CA. So ask yourself if you have the manpower to supply such services in a meaningful manner. Security/Programming might be too generic. Depending on the programming language there are better boards out there, considering the lack of ITSec folks here, there are also better security boards available to visitors. An option maybe be Security+Programming. Focus on paradigmas and best practices on secure programming - its somewhat of a niche, but maybe you can make a difference there. Challenges always worked for CA - why? Because once you set them up you don't need to do anything but sporadically fix bugs and restart services/bots. So - back to the question: what CAN you actually contribute? You can definetly extend your set of challenges, you can try to specialize on secure programming or programming for itsec. I am sure there is somewhat of a demand for an information source on how to write effective brute-forcing algorithms, how to secure webapps against SQL injection, how to write basic network apps that access raw sockets and so on. Use the challenges as a starting point to get people interested. When you have to write a piece of code to pass Sered5 you might wonder if you could have done it any better / more efficient and what other applications such code might have. De-regulation, Privacy, Education - not so much. Maybe as an aspect of Challenges and Sec/Programming, but I don't see those areas as strong points of CA. Use something small and compact as dopel's mission statement, no one reads more than 30-40 words anyway. THE, GABB - aka - Pain in the Ass Replies:
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