For the mission statement, I suggest that we put everything that comes, as we will not be able to find it straight away.

So here is a very raw draft:

- "Hacking from user space": as a reference to plan9 from user space. But that will not be all about user space, so not that good. But I like the analogy of the magazine with a system. Some other idiom to start from: Unix in a nutshell. As opposed to academic approach: overview discoveries about UNIX.

- Some path, command, like /etc/motd. That could be combined with another thing, like "$ cat /etc/motd <mission statement>". Wildefyr did that on its blog and that looked good: http://wildefyr.net - printf '%s\n' "cool stuff and people"

- A sentence that describe it, as it stay simple and would give a good idea of what it is straight away: "Open source magazine for unix nerds" as in the titanpad. "The $HOME of all things UNIX". As on http://wildefyr.net about nixers.net: " Magazine for *nix lovers".

- A lots of expression to include, but i really know few, like greybeard, wizard...