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 Airship is working to build a global, diverse and collaborative community. Anyone interested in supporting the technology
 is welcome to participate. We are seeking different expertise and skills, ranging from development, operations,
-documentation, marketing, community organization and product management.
+documentation, marketing, community organization and product management. The core principles of the Airship community
+can be found [here](principles.md).
 
 ### Join Us
 
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+# Airship Core Principles
+
+* [Community Principles](#community-principles)
+* [Technical Principles](#technical-principles)
+
+The Airship project follows several technical principles which guide what we build, and community
+principles which guide how we build it.
+
+## Community Principles
+
+The Airship community is fully committed to the OpenStack Foundation
+[Community Code of Conduct](https://www.openstack.org/legal/community-code-of-conduct). We are
+a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive community, and believe treating one another in this way
+is both the right thing to do and the best way to craft valuable software.
+
+Airship is also committed to the [Four Opens](https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Open) of software
+development: Open Source, Open Design, Open Development, and Open Community.
+
+## Technical Principles
+
+The Airship project uses the following guiding principles in design and development, to ensure
+that the software we author is valuable and solves the right problems.
+
+* Airship is a declarative and automated toolset for the lifecycle management of
+  open infrastructure.
+* Airship is Repeatable, Predictable, Approachable, Flexible, Composable, and Reusable.
+* Airship follows
+  [cloud-native principles](https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/master/DEFINITION.md)
+  and uses standardized, open-source components, avoiding technology lock-in.
+* Airship is small and focused, incorporating best-in-class open-source tooling and employing the
+  principles above to integrate it in and make it valuable to operators. The Airship community
+  prefers to enhance general-purpose projects, working within their communities, over crafting
+  Airship-specific solutions.