Life is so good, it gets better every day

Planet Sun

Sun has an official planet – who’d have known.

Solaris Install Demo

The guys in the Caiman project are really rocking, with a demo of the the dwarfed down install now available. Very cool, though I’m struggling to find the source code right now.

Another View

A view from the office, for Stephen.

Makara Peak

Took off on Sunday morning for Makara Peak, touted as having some good tracks. Most of the tracks are pretty well maintained as you weave in and out of the forest, slowly working your way up towards Makara Peak. I did the recommended into heading up Koru, Sally Alley, Missing Link, Aratihi, wussed out at doing the top part of Ridgeline because of the wind, headed down the 4WD track, connected up with Ridgeline extension, and finally SWIGG/Starfish. It was a pretty fun ride, though a massive difference from the technical rock hopping of the Port Hills. Still, a fun couple of hours riding and getting used to the new bike/SPD’s.

Reality

I thought 2 days of perfect stillness in Wellington was too good to be true. It’s now windy and time to suck it up.

Get the Flock Out of Here

Went to see Black Sheep last night with Jayne, Mike, Inge and Ula at the Embassy cinema. Fantastic place to watch a film, and an awesome Friday wind down.

Views From the House

Some views from the house.

A New Home

After a long week of packing, cramming, and stressing, I’m finally up in Wellington, sitting in the bedroom overlooking Oriental Bay. It’s a pretty sweet sight, and I’ve christened it by number four Guinness. I’ve not enjoyed shifting flat [again], though the journey up to Picton, and ferry across the straits was pretty wonderful. Some photos to follow at some stage.

OpenSolaris – Where Next?

Stephen announced the election results, and I’m delighted to see that, first and foremost, the constitution has been ratified, and secondly, that I’ll be a member of the Open Solaris governing board for the year. It was a pretty close run election, and I only just squeezed through the post.

The elected board seems like a decent mix of people and I’m hoping it’s going to be a productive year with real progress being made on all fronts. I’m obviously disappointed for a whole bunch of really rocking candidates that didn’t make it, as I believe they would have done a fantastic job. Also disapppointed not to see a female on the board – I think that would have been a good thing for the project to encourage inclusiveness right across the community, and I hope that we continue to strive for those beliefs. Still, there’s enough fresh blood there to start the ball rolling.

Last week Ian Murdock joined Sun taking on a new role to head up the operating system platform strategy there. I’m delighted there is another person at Sun who really understands open source and communities, and really looking forward to working with him as part of my new OGB duties.

Canterbury Software Cluster

In order to revive the monthly bbq’s once held around Christchurch, I was volunteered to give a talk at the Canterbury Software Cluster last night. I’m in the process of moving up to Wellington at the moment, so it was all a little rushed, but I did manage enough time to come up with this presentation which is a variation of a talk I’ve done previously. Not really knowing my audience, or the likely numbers who would attend, I figured I’d present why I’m still motivated to get up each day and work for Sun, while trying to give some background into the types of changes that are happening there.

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been learning quite a bit about presenting various bits and pieces – lessons to take home are don’t wear stupid stripey shirts and sway while on TV, start making eye contact with your audience a little more, and less, well, you know.