Life is so good, it gets better every day

The first OpenSolaris Developer Summit has been announced for the weekend of 13th and 14th October at the University of California in Santa Cruz. It’ll be a pretty hands on summit, with a lot of discussion (hopefully) around putting together the bits of Indiana. It’ll also be a good excuse to party and get to know some faces behind the OpenSolaris project which I’m looking forward to - I’ve found with previous GNOME experiences, it’s the best way to get excited about where we’re heading for the project and putting a face to a name really helps communication wise too.

We haven’t yet got a solid schedule around, but there’s a mailing list set up and ready for discussion. We also have a small amount of travel sponsorships for non-Sun employees to be able to attend, so if you think you’d like to attend and have been active in the project thus far, please do apply. So go register! (oh, and save the world by car pooling down to the event if you can).

Red Hat’s reaction was to move to NYSE in response to the volatility of the NASDAQ. Sun changes brand. A while ago, Jonathan talked at an internal Solaris all hands where he talked about leadership, characterizing it under a single word, courage - courage to be honest and integral, courage to be innovative, courage to collaborate and courage to act with pace and react to market needs. Of course time will tell on whether this will be a successful move, but either way, I’m satisfied that Jonathan practices what he preaches and I’m massively supportive of that and his continuing leadership.