On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 15:28 -0500, Hugh Brock wrote: > Mission Statement Voting > > OK... I promised to schedule a vote for today and naturally I am > behind. The good news is this means you guys have the weekend to think > about this. > > A bit about process. Having been through a substantial mission > statement exercise already, I'm not inclined to lengthen the process > much further by accepting further tweaks. I am therefore going to > exercise the mighty ><}}}*> one final time and reduce the nominees for > Aeolus Mission Statement to three. I hope you all will view this less > as an act of oppression and more as an act of getting the hell on with > it :). > > In voting, I would urge you all to remember that a mission statement can > and probably should be aspirational -- our software may not fill our > mission today, but we intend that it will someday, and that new > additions to Aeolus will be included or not based on how well they will > help us fill the mission. > > The choices, then, are: > > 1. Aeolus mission: To provide superior tools and workflows for flexible > construction, management, and monitoring of multi-instance systems > across clouds. (This is the original version we concocted at the dev > conf.)
+1 vote for #1 > > 2. Aeolus mission: To provide superior tools and workflows for flexible > construction, management, and monitoring of multi-instance deployments > across clouds. (Modifications by Giulio Fidente and Justin Clift, > received at least one endorsement on list.) > > 3. Aeolus mission: "To provide open source tools for the management > and monitoring of cloud based systems." (Alternative from Mo Morsi. Mo > says: "Are we just focusing on 'multi-instance systems'? Isn't > providing simple tools to build images and launch a single instance > against any generic cloud provider part of Aeolus?") > > Vote for one by end of Monday, please. > > Thanks, > --Hugh >
