Merge pull request #57 from reid-a/mission-strategy

Mission and strategy work.

Author: tkphd

pages/about.md

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 permalink: /about/
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-**Vision:** Our vision is to be the leading inclusive community teaching data and coding skills
-for HPC resources.
-
-**Mission:** We're still working on our mission statement, but when it lands it's going to be
-amazing!
-
 HPC Carpentry operates in the spirit of [The Carpentries](https://carpentries.org/) but we
 are **not** (currently)
 an official program of The Carpentries. We do try to inherit some of the best practices and
 effort of The
 Carpentries, which is clearly reflected in things like our [Code of Conduct](/code-of-conduct)
 (and how we created this website!).
+
+**Vision:** Our vision is to be the leading inclusive community 
+teaching data and coding skills for HPC resources.
+
+**Mission:** Lower the barrier to entry to HPC operations for a wide 
+range of users, so that more people can benefit from the increasing 
+availability of increasingly sophisticated computer systems.
+
+**Strategy:** Our path to achieving this goal includes developing and
+aggregating relevant resources, and working closely with like-minded
+communities.
+- Take advantage of [Carpentries](https://carpentries.org) open-source 
+and pedagogical standards, so that our material continuously improves.
+- Develop workshops suitable for integration into the existing 
+[Carpentries](https://carpentries.org) workflow, to allow 
+  - An "HPC Users" workshop, starting with the 
+[Unix Shell](https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/) and 
+[HPC Intro](https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/hpc-intro/) lessons,
+and following up with example applications using data analysis or
+containers to demonstrate the advantages of HPC operations.
+  - An "HPC Developers" workshop, also starting with 
+[Unix Shell](https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/) and
+[HPC Intro](https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/hpc-intro/) lessons,
+with follow-up lessons covering how to develop applications
+for HPC systems.
+- Collect, develop, and organize related material that doesn't 
+fit into the workshop framework, making it easy to find for 
+interested developers.
+