On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:17:44PM +0200, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 04:11:05PM -0400, Mike Burns wrote:
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 16:09 -0400, Mike Burns wrote:
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 21:58 +0200, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 03:49:54PM -0400, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
On 07/10/2012 03:48 PM, Mike Burns wrote:
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 15:27 -0400, Robert Middleswarth wrote: >This week in the infra meeting the topic of a mission statement was >talked about and I was asked to send out some suggestions and ask for >feedback and combine the comments into a good mission statement. I >tired to take what was talked about in the chat and looked at mission >statements of other projects and this is what I came up with. > >Proposed Mission Statement: > >The Infrastructure (infra) team is a community services infrastructure >team. It purpose is to manage in a professional manner the oVirt's >project infrastructure following accepted professional standards of >system administrators. These administrators volunteer their time to >contribute to the oVirt project. A few nits and reorganizations...
The infra team is a community services infrastructure team made up of volunteers. It purpose is to manage, in a professional manner, the oVirt project's infrastructure following accepted professional standards of system administrators. I like that one better :) Provided you change 'It purpose' to 'Its purpose' I mostly like it. Not sure about the double professional in there. What's the difference between a professional manner and following accepted professional standards? Maybe make it modern professional standards as well.
I missed the double professional. Not sure how modern fits there. It seems to make it a bit wordy...
The infra team is a community services infrastructure team made up of volunteers. It purpose is to manage the oVirt project's infrastructure following accepted professional standards of system administrators.
Fixing It -> Its
The infra team is a community services infrastructure team made up of volunteers. Its purpose is to manage the oVirt project's infrastructure following accepted professional standards of system administrators.
Trimming it further:
The infra team is a volunteer effort to provide community infrastructure services by following accepted professional standards of system administrators.
And with the comments from IRC: The oVirt Infra Team is a volunteer effort to provide community infrastructure services by following accepted professional standards of system administrators and the open source way.