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Adjust the welcome a bit more.

Beoran 7 years ago
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WELCOME.md

@@ -7,38 +7,26 @@ and thank you for your interest in it. This project is brought to you with the
 hope that it will be useful to you, but without any warranty whatsoever. Please 
 read the LICENSE  for more details about this.
 
-We welcome and appreciate contributions from everybody. By contributions we mean 
-code, documentation, art work, project outreach in form of setting up 
-conferences or working groups, package maintenance, answering and asking 
-questions in our forums, providing bug reports, or any other other material 
-or work to advance the goals of this project.  If you contribute to our project, 
-then we will do our best to seriously consider your opinions and concerns. 
-
-No matter who you are, no matter where you are from, and no matter your opinions 
-on any topic, we will welcome your contributions to this project as long as they 
-are compatible with the project's goals and license. The goals of this project 
-are described in a GOALS file, or in other design documents specified by the 
-maintainer(s). 
-
-If you are new to this project, even if you lack experience, we would like to 
-encourage you to participate. But, you will need to invest some time and effort 
-yourself to get to know the project, to learn it's goals and to learn how to 
-make a useful contribution.
-
-## How to participate in this project
-
-We want everyone entering our community willing to help out to feel welcomed.
-To maintain and encourage a welcoming environment we ask of everyone
-involved in the project to follow these general guidelines:
+We welcome contributions from everybody. No matter who you are, 
+no matter where you are from, and no matter your opinions on any topic, we
+appreciate your contributions to this project as long as they are compatible 
+with the project's goals as per GOALS.md and license as per LICENSE. 
+
+## How to play fair
+
+We want to give everyone a fair opportunity to contribute to this project.
+To maintain and encourage a fair environment we ask of everyone
+involved in the project to try to follow these general guidelines when 
+contributing:
  
 1. Everyone should try to stay on topic. Please refrain from posting SPAM, 
-trolling, irrelevant discussions,  other off topic material.
+   trolling, irrelevant discussions, other off topic material.
 
 2. Everyone should try to behave like a reasonable adult. Please refrain 
-from personal attacks, dog piling, bullying or other similar activities.
+   from personal attacks, dog piling, bullying or other similar activities.
 
 3. Keep the project goals in mind. Please refrain from demands to change the 
-goals if you are not a maintainer. 
+   goals if you are not a maintainer. 
 
 When the project maintainer(s) consider it necessary, any contribution or 
 participation in the project that violates these guidelines may be removed or 
@@ -46,62 +34,37 @@ edited. At the discretion of the maintainer(s), someone who maliciously or,
 after having been warned repeatedly, keeps on disregarding these guidelines, 
 may be temporarily or permanently banned from contributing to the project.
 
-Naturally, these guidelines only apply within the context of the project.
+Naturally, these guidelines only apply within the context of the project itself.
 It is not our role to judge your behavior that is not directly related to 
-the project. The maintainer(s) of this project will not apply any 
-in project sanction on the pretext of your unrelated behavior. 
-We do this because would like to welcome anyone, even people with unpopular 
-opinions.
+the project. The maintainer(s) of this project will may apply project 
+related sanctions only for your behavior when contributing. We do this because
+would like to welcome anyone, even people with unpopular opinions.
 
 The maintainer(s) of this project will do their best to follow these guidelines 
 themselves also, but since they rightfully own the project, they cannot be 
-banned. 
-
-These guidelines are in no way a substitute for the laws of your country, which 
-you should already obey anyway.
+banned from it.
 
 ## What to do in case of problems
 
 If you feel that you or your contribution are not being treated fairly, 
 if you feel concerned about your personal safety, or if someone is engaged in 
-illegal behavior, contact the maintainer(s) of this project at <contact >.  
-We will do our best to remedy the situation and respect your privacy.
-
-## How to contribute 
-
-When you want make a contribution the maintainer(s) of this project or someone 
-appointed by them will perform a review. We would like to let you know that we 
-will do our best to review your contributions fairly, and only take into 
-consideration relevant factors, such as compatibility with the goals of the 
-project, the absence of technical errors, practical advantages, .... 
-
-The review process may be quite intense and severely critical, but the goal of 
-the review is to improve your contribution so it can be integrated into the 
-project without problems. We will do our best to focus our criticism on the 
-contribution itself.
-
-## How to become a maintainer
-
-When it comes to the goals of this project, your suggestions are most welcome.
-But it is important to know that goals of this project are decided by this 
-project's maintainer(s). By virtue of the time and effort they put in this 
-project, they have earned the privilege of defining the project's goals. 
-
-If you are interested in becoming a maintainer, we ask to please contact 
-the current maintainer(s) to ask them how to achieve this. If so inclined, you 
-may also fork this project and become the maintainer of that fork 
-to develop it according to your own goals.
+illegal behavior, contact the maintainer(s) of this project at beoran@gmail.com. 
+We will do our best to remedy the situation.
 
 ## DISCLAIMER
 
 With this text, we hope to welcome you to this project, however, it is merely
 a statement of intent to inform you of how we wish to run this project. 
 It is in no way legally binding for anyone involved in the project. 
-This FLOSS project run by volunteers, so we do not always have the resources to 
-answer you or to help you in case of problems. We can only implement this 
-statement of intent on a best effort basis. We cannot guarantee that we will be 
-able to uphold the guidleines set out in this text. Therefore, your 
-participation to this project is subject to the following disclaimer:
+This FLOSS project is run by volunteers, so we do not always have the resources 
+to answer you or to help you in case of problems. 
+
+We can only implement this statement of intent on a best effort basis. We cannot 
+guarantee that we will be able to uphold the guidleines set out in this text.
+Unfortunately, in this day and age it is neccesary to make it amply clear that 
+we cannot be held reponsible if something goes awry despite our good intentions. 
+Therefore, your participation to this project is subject to the following 
+disclaimer:
 
 YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS PROJECT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED 
 WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 
@@ -109,9 +72,10 @@ MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT,
 ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE MAINTAINER(S) AND CONTRIBUTOR(S) OF THIS 
 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, 
 OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF GOODWILL,
-PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; 
-OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER
-IN  CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGECE OR OTHERWISE) 
-ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS PROJECT, YOUR FAILURE, 
-OR YOUR BEING REJECTED FROM PARTICIPATION IT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY 
-OF SUCH DAMAGE. 
+LOSS OF REPUTATION, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, 
+DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY 
+OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN  CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING 
+NEGLIGECE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS
+PROJECT, YOUR FAILURE TO PARTICIPATE IN IT, OR YOUR BEING REJECTED FROM 
+PARTICIPATION IN IT, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 
+