I’ve said this before, but most of the GNOME guys feel like part of my family. It’s a wonderful feeling really, and it’s been really great to catch up with them all, and meet a whole heap of new people. Last night was the Fluendo beach party. It rocked and we timed it with the first annual GNOME skinny dipping event. Building a community to a whole new level…
For Bastien’s sake, I hope he does actually lead his team to victory – wouldn’t want 2 teams he supported to get knocked out….Uh, probably should have bought those shin pads after all.
Don’t worry Murray, we’re coming back with fresh motivation to look at the issue again. I’ve already got some ABI checking scripts to make a start from and we now have some machines slotted in our racks for the job. We’ll also have Joe Kowalski back at GUADEC this year to give us his experiences dealing with ABI in Solaris over the last millenium. With no distractions [apart from beer..], I think we’ll be able to slot in some nice time for making some real progress.
I’ve been spending a few relatively quiet days in Barcelona right before the GUADEC storm. It’s been really great to catch up with Lyd and Edu [whom I’ve never met previously] in her luxurious Spanish house, a few miles outside the main city. Lots of really great food, some good beers, great company and an occasional dip in the pool. As a special bonus, Tim and Bob have been over here too, so we’ve had a good few trips around town getting to see the amazing sights and sounds.
Met up with Luis and Chris today for lunch [which didn’t go as well as I hoped with some wanker stealing Chris’ laptop bag], and then a trip down to the World Trade Center to catch up with the Fluendo guys. Really ramping up for GUADEC now, and looking forward to the trip down to Vilanova with Christian tomorrow. Then party, party, party! It’s your last chance to get in on the act, and this GNOME conference looks like it will be the best ever!
Tonight we have some St.Joan festival – lots of good food, beer and fireworks. My sis has really nailed this Spanish thing.
Now this is more like it – reasonably priced internet plans for in-flight boredom. Hooray for Singapore Airlines, I salut you! The connection isn’t too bad either – I wonder if Sun have a corporate account on this thing??
OpenSolaris is officially one year old today. Jim did an excellent review of the year, and some stunning results. During that year, I’ve had some personal highlights – JDS being the first non-ON consolidation to release their code, and the many new people I’ve had the pleasure of working with in the community.
Despite all those wonderful metrics, we’re still a growing community. We still have a lot of source code behind closed doors. The community contributions are still being bootstrapped by a relatively small set of people. We still don’t have our code in a source code management system. We’re still a little way off from a governance model. There’s still a lot of people in Sun that don’t quite grok working in an open source community.
But hell, there’s a lot of one year olds that can barely walk or articulate, and for an evolving open source community, OpenSolaris is doing just peachy. Happy birthday dude.
I’m going to be there, who else? Looks like we’ll have a BoF there, I’ve volunteered myself for a stint in the Sun booth, and there’s bound to be a round or two of beers there. Give me a shout if you’re intending to come so I know who to look out for!
