Infra project mission statement RFC

[Robert Middleswarth]

On 07/10/2012 04:17 PM, 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.
Incorporating in the suggestions from IRC and the thread.

The oVirt's infra team is a volunteer effort to provide community 
infrastructure
services by following accepted open standards of system
administrators.

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