Tim put me down for an IEOSUG talk when I get back home in July. So on Thursday July 12th, drop along and hear about what Project Indiana is, ask some questions and how you can get involved! Given that I only have 4 days in the country, I’ll probably have a Guinness in my hand – I’ll try to make sure I have a few to hand around too.
Thanks to James for interviewing Ian on the latest issue of Open Source on the Air – some good discussion about Indiana, among other things.
As Jeff mentioned, absolutely awesome to see the New Zealand Open Source Awards (and also, more recently, to see the wonderful Pia as a judge). It’s a great initiative within New Zealand, and I hope it’s a big success. If nothing else, it’s going to be a monster party in Wellington on the night of the awards with the various open source rock stars out in force!
Someone pointed me to the recent set of threads (Kill PPC port) on ppc-discuss, which is nothing more than an extension what has been happening at times within the wider community. I can appreciate the deep frustration and tension from both sides of the line, but I think some basic diplomacy and patience is needed. This is new ground we’re all breaking and it will take time.
Don’t forget for a second that we’re all working together on this one. We’re a community, and disappointingly, we’re not looking like one at times. We need to have a mutual respect and trust for each other at the core, otherwise I fear that all credibility will be lost.
So I’d call out to everyone to get to know your community, both the independent and Sun employed contributors. It will help a massive amount. Subscribe to their blogs, Flickr or Twitter feeds and find out what makes them tick, because only then will you begin to appreciate who they are and where they are coming from.
Be the community.
Very sexy performance from the RedMonk boys, and absolutely well deserved for leading the industry on this one.
ZOMG! It’s true! The various photos from the event beg for a bit of lolgeeks action. Who’s keen?
Interesting episode of the Java Posse with Cote. Always personally fascinated to hear about people’s perceptions about Sun, and various other tidbits in this one.
Awesome blog from Jim about the progress being made in OpenSolaris.
Personally I’ve had a lot of fun in the last year, being involved in the OpenSolaris Weekly News, creation of Planet OpenSolaris, being elected onto the OpenSolaris Governing Board, and more recently being involved in Project Indiana (which incidently has nothing to do with JDS patches). I’ve met some of the most wonderful people too. That said, it’s also been frustrating at times as well, though my motivation for wanting to see OpenSolaris being an inclusive and healthy community project is as strong as ever. As the community grows, we’re going to have to be more positive, more respectful, and more welcoming than we have been before. Roll on another year.
Great to see the announcement out about open sourcing Open Sound System – congratulations to the 4Front and OSS teams! Looking forward to seeing some project work progressing to integrate this into OpenSolaris.
Finally found a little time to write up some informal guidelines for what the various Community Groups in OpenSolaris are expected to do in their day to day activities. It’s a first pass on some of the things that people are asking about, but I’m sure there’s heaps missing. What bits are missing or confusing? What’s undocumented in the current process? Where are the hurdles that you see? What suggetions do you have for other Community Groups starting out? There’s a lot of experience and information to share – help us to figure some of this out, and participate in the discussion!
