Open Stack

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
> OpenStack has a mission statement that has held up pretty well for the
> life of the project so far.  That mission statement is:
>
>> to produce the ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that will
>> meet the needs of public and private clouds regardless of size, by being
>> simple to implement and massively scalable.
>
> Sometime late last year, a discussion emerged about updating the mission
> statement to include some key themes that have become an important focus
> of our community.
>
>  * interoperability
>  * end users
>
> At the join board + TC meeting at the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, the two
> groups agreed that working on an update seemed reasonable and that we
> wanted both groups to agree on those updates.
>
> A few weeks ago, the TC came up with a proposed updated mission statement.
>
> http://governance.openstack.org/resolutions/20160106-mission-amendment.html
>
> That proposal is:
>
>> to produce the ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that enables
>> building interoperable public and private clouds regardless of size, by being
>> simple to implement and massively scalable while serving the cloud users'
>> needs.
>
> The board discussed this proposal during the board meeting last week.
> This spawned a good discussion.  There was a desire that we continue
> that discussion on the foundation mailing list to incorporate additional
> feedback.
>
> One suggestion was that changing "that will meet the needs of public and
> private clouds" to "that enables building ... public and private clouds"
> was a downgrade.  The suggestion was to restore the original wording, as
> it sounded like a more firm commitment.
>
> The second major piece of feedback was that some people wanted to
> somehow incorporate that OpenStack is not limited to a specific set of
> technologies.  Specific talk of bare metal, VMs, and containers were
> brought up as examples, but people wanted to somehow reflect that the
> platform is evolving with major technology trends.
>
> Rob Esker provided this suggested update which incorporates that feedback:
>
>> "To produce and progressively evolve the ubiquitous Open Source Cloud
>> Computing platform that meets the needs of public and private clouds
>> regardless of size, by being simple to implement, massively scalable,
>> interoperable, and easy to use.”
>
> (Note: Rob's proposal didn't include the final comma.  I added it.  Feel
> free to debate the merits of the oxford comma if you wish.)
>
> If I missed anything or if anyone would like to provide additional
> feedback, please respond on list.
>
>
> I'm actually pretty happy with Rob's proposal.  I'd like to hear what
> others think so we can continue moving forward.
>

I think Rob's proposal is worded quite well and I like it.

> Thanks!
>
> --
> Russell Bryant
>
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