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+# Ayo.js Community Values
+
+Ayo.js is about the people that help make it happen. It's a project aimed at
+creating a new foundation of project governance and management that brings
+**humans** and their concerns front and center.
+
+You can pronounce it however you want: be it “ey-yo”, “I-oh”, or “Awooooo” — the
+Ayo.js project strives to create an environment where you can feel at home and
+focus on your contributions to this nice shared space that we all benefit from.
+
+## Ayo.js is more than the code in its repository.
+
+Documentation, long-term support, translations and localizations,
+package management, libuv, V8 and Chakra, builds/ops, testing and its
+infrastructure, hardware and IoT, Android, streams, community events,
+facilitation, moderation and education. These and more are all concerns that
+can be handled separately and by members who might be much better qualified
+for these individual tasks than a central decision body.
+
+Ayo.js will go further than Node.js did in spreading responsibility across
+the project, so everyone can focus and specialize better than before.
+Contributors should be able to organize and manage their own subprojects
+in a way that is effective and efficient for their unique needs.
+
+## Humans are more important than red tape.
+
+If governance policy is not serving the values set forth here, that governance
+policy should change with the required agility. Following the governance policy
+to the letter will not take precedence over staying true to our stated values or
+the well-being of our humans.
+
+## Humans are more important than APIs and Benchmarks.
+
+Technical discussions are difficult, especially in large communities with
+members with all sorts of perspectives. Contributors are bound to find themselves in
+situations with no clear consensus, with new concerns being brought up
+on a regular basis, and things that might seem insignificant in other
+contexts suddenly exploding.
+
+The Ayo.js project’s perspective is that when such things happen, it often takes
+a toll on the well-being of the members participating, at times preventing
+repeated contributions or precluding new contributors outright. It also
+recognizes that the difference between individual choices is less important than
+the ability to come to an appropriate technical decision.
+
+Projects change, evolve, and find themselves dealing with new concerns all the
+time. In all technical matters, Ayo.js will take into account that in the end,
+it is the people making, implementing, and maintaining that matter most, not the
+decisions themselves. It’s okay for code to be imperfect.
+
+## Humans are more important than corporations.
+
+All sorts of corporations and other organizations around the world use and
+benefit from the software underlying Ayo.js, and many contributors, in fact, may
+be directly compensated by them for their efforts on the project. But this can
+often turn into such direct reliance on corporations that they can essentially
+seize control of a project — or struggle for power over it while individual
+contributors are left wondering if they can ever influence the project
+themselves.
+
+Ayo.js will explore new structures and framings for corporate relationships
+in such a way that its individual humans, not the corporations that employ them,
+are ultimately still the ones determining the direction of the project.
+Ayo.js should be a space where independent contributors, freelancers, hobbyists,
+and students all feel like they hold the same footing as corporate employees
+at all levels of the project.