Infra project mission statement RFC

[Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden]

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.