[OpenStack Foundation] Updating the OpenStack Mission Statement

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Fri Feb 12 14:33:32 UTC 2016


Excerpts from Allison Randal's message of 2016-02-11 18:40:44 -0500:
> On 02/11/2016 05:39 PM, Mark Collier wrote:
> > On February 11, 2016 4:35:28 PM Shamail <itzshamail at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>  I have a few very small changes/suggestions for consideration...
> >>
> >> 1) Change "it should be easy to use" to "That is easy to use"
> >>
> >> 2) s/work/works/
> >>
> >> 2) Someone had mentioned changing the word "instances" to something
> >> else (I can't find the exact word/phrasing).  Can we possibly consider
> >> "deployments" or "providers" instead?  (Provider doesn't necessarily
> >> have to be a service provider but can also refer to internal teams)
> > 
> > I agree that "instances" could prove confusing.
> > 
> > You could say between "clouds" or "deployments", I think.
> 
> +1 for "deployments"
> 
> Working through the rest of Shamail's suggestions, adding some grammar
> changes for consistency, that brings us to:
> 
> To produce a ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform, that is

I think that comma after "platform" shouldn't be there, but otherwise
I like this version.

Doug

> easy to use, simple to implement, interoperable between deployments,
> works well at all scales, and meets the needs of users and operators of
> both public and private clouds.
> 
> (I swapped the order of "interoperable..." and "works...", so it only
> needs "is" once, instead of repeating it half-way through.)
> 
> Allison
> 



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