from values to aim

_data/navigation.yml

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 didnav:
   - title: DIDecentral
     children:
-      - title: "• Our Values"
+      - title: "• Our Aim"
-        url: "/values/"
+        url: "/aim/"
       - title: "• History"
         url: "/history/"
       - title: "• DID Adoption"

_pages/values.md

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 ---
-title: Our Values
+title: Our Aim
 layout: single
-permalink: values/
+permalink: aim/
-canonical_url: 'https://decentralized-id.com/values/'
+canonical_url: #'https://decentralized-id.com/values/'
-redirect_from: values
+redirect_from: 
+  - values
+  - values/
 toc: false
 classes: wide
 ---
 
-Decentralized-id.com is a collaborative, participatory learning community oriented that strives to support the elaboration and adoption of a user-controlled decentralized identity layer for the internets of the future. All of this is a labor of love and a work in progress, but certain shared values undergird our work and set the terms of our engagement with the broader public. We strive to be:
+Decentralized-id.com is a collaborative, participatory learning community oriented that strives to support the elaboration and adoption of a self-sovereign identity layer for the internet. This is a labor of love and a work in progress. Certain values undergird those who share in this work. Our Aim:
 
-\-          **Educational**.  Our primary motivation is to make it easier to navigate the information around creating decentralized identity systems. To create a decentralized identity layer and to for the internet is a monumental task. Understanding the history of this effort, and it's numerous inter-related parts, is helpful for assessing interoperability, quantifying decentralization, and creating potential solutions. As it stands, such information is widely dispersed, and it requires much effort and research to gather it into one place. Once the essential themes are organized for our consumption, it should be easier to move forward in whatever direction we are pursuing.
+\-          **Educational**.  Our primary motivation is to enable ease in navigating the voluminous information information related to the topic of decentralised identity. It requires new methods for gathering and distributing information, if all identity networks should interoperate in a widespread fashion. As it stands, such information is widely dispersed, requiring dedication both to gather and present. 
 
-\-          **Impartial**.  We take impartiality seriously. We work to avoid playing favorites, taking sides, offering investment advice, or contributing to market dynamics whereby vendors and platforms jockey for relative advantage. Our priority is to present the most complete picture possible, in breadth and depth, without editorializing or predicting the future. The strengths and weaknesses of each implementation are presented as we encounter them. 
+\-          **Impartial**.  As individuals we are quite partial to given systems and organizations. As a publication, we're interested in a palatable communication of such a variety of technologies, it's not possible to know precisely what valuable information could be found where we're not expecting. It's more important that anyone has the ability to browse a curated catelog of knowledge to find what they are looking for, and then some. 
 
-We and/or our contributors are likely to have our own prejudices. However, we aim to leave them at the door, and present all information in a civil and non-adversarial fashion here. The important thing is for the Internet to have a Decentralized Identity Layer. Not for any particular application or organization to "win" or "lose" against the rest.
+The important thing is for the Internet to have a Decentralized Identity Layer. Not for any particular application or organization to "win" or "lose" against the rest. Success comes as we rise together.
 
-\-          **Inclusive**.  Healthy community bonds are the only effective countermeasure against profit agendas and ulterior motives. Everyone is welcome to contribute to this resource. Ideally, it will mature to the point that the community can maintain it with minimal effort from any particular individual. It is outside the scope of this document, but detailed contributors guidelines are forthcoming and should make it easy for anyone to participate.
+\-          **Inclusive**.  DIDecentral could better described as an unorganization of self-affirming members. It is a do-ocracy, comprised of those who share a passion for building a common repository of knowledge, in support of Sovereign Identity. 
 
-\-          **Not for Profit.** The purpose of this site is to learn and share knowledge. That being said, the research involved is a lot of work, along with building the site. We accept private donations and/or corporate sponsorships to cover expenses. Additionally, individual contributors may do paid consulting, writing, or other commercial ventures independent of this project.
+\-          **Not for Profit.**  The purpose of this site is to learn and share knowledge. That being said, research and discovery of methods for sharing that research is a lot of work. We accept private donations and/or sponsorships. If there is a particular topic you'd like more information on, a donation would surely speed the time to publication. Individual contributors may also do paid consulting, writing, or other commercial ventures independent of this project.
 
-\-          **Public Domain** Unless otherwise noted, all the content of this site is released to the public domain. Any contributions belong solely to their contributors unless otherwise specified.
+\-          **Public Domain** Unless otherwise noted, all the content of this site is released to the public domain. Contributors wishing to retain full rights of their work must specify such, before the time of publication.