Project Indiana

May 12, 2007 7:23 am General

JavaOne was a pretty stressful week all in all – not only was it my first experience first hand with the enormous conference that it is, it was also an opportunity to interview for a program manager position for Project Indiana. I’ll spare you the interview details; but most of them involved both sides getting really excited by the thought of what could be achieved when the concept turns into reality, and how we might go about it. Ian presented some of his thoughts during his CommunityOne talk on Monday, though didn’t specifically mention ‘Project Indiana’ – it all sounded sane; it all sounded very real.

Queue some unexpected press. Midway through the week, the pace quickened up thanks to Stephen Shankland’s Sun hopes for Linux-like Solaris article, and the opensolaris-discuss rumour mill kicked into full gear (rightly so; the communication was not ideal and I don’t think anyone involved would dispute that). Marc chipped in with some great detail, and slowly the pieces started to take shape (along with some very reasoned follow-up reactions thanks to John and Bryan, which was awesome to see).

I’m excited about the project and I think it has an important future, so much so that I’m planning on moving to marketing and leaving my desktop engineering roots to take on the product management role for the distribution. Yes, I can still feel my heart beat, so hell hasn’t frozen over yet! Ian posted his thoughts on the concept, and that’s about as much as we’ve covered during the discussion at JavaOne. We all have different ideas of how this might work etc.. but nothing is set in stone other than the very real desire to get this done. I’m very much looking forward to seeing how it all pans out.

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