There’s not a lot of thanks being said just yet, but GUADEC Team, you’re doing a rocking job! Thank you! I registered today for my GUADEC 2007 experience, and really looking forward to seeing old friends again.
Finally posted the problem statement, an initial base for discussion to really focus on figuring out what this distribution will look like. I can’t take much credit for this at all, since it’s the combined effort of many people who have contributed their ideas to the various OpenSolaris aliases, and those that I pinged early drafts off. It’s far from complete and perhaps conjure up more questions than before, but it’s out there, and it’s time to discuss and deep dive on a few issues.
I’m personally looking forward to reading some of the feedback, and then thinking about release planning in parallel.
Very wise words from Cote on this one, and very obviously relevant to opensolaris.org. The dude needs to change his font though.
Pedro rocks with his Iandiana Jones and the Last Crusade – feels like one at times! Awesome for a hackergotchi too!
Looking forward to attending GUADEC this year again – not only is it a great opportunity to be in Europe to catch up with family in Dublin, it’ll be great to see and drink beer with my GNOME friends in Birmingham, despite the miserable experience of being on the Foundation Board and the meetings that we’ll be sucked into. After that, I’ll be winging my way over to OSCON in Portland, and very excited to attend Ubuntu Live too. On July 9th I’ll fly east, and eventually get back to where I started. Hooray for the world being round.
After my last post identifying some of the attractions of Ubuntu, it was nice to see Mike Kupfer’s experiences during Mark’s visit to Menlo Park. Ubuntu was an amazing success, though had the very obvious benefit of learning from 15+ years of distribution development. Now I’m also pleased to see Fedora making some real progress on some of their nits, including the excellent Revisor and somewhat surprising step into doing patch RPMs as a way to cut down bandwidth costs despite experiences in SuSE with deltarpm.
Jim pointed me at this article on Indiana – the last paragraph is particularly note worthy and something I’ve personally been thinking a lot about in the past few weeks. This is the bar we have to Fosbury over.
Another long week. Who said life was easy, huh? Not only have Jayne and I been juggling 3 of her sister’s kids while they’re away on holiday, also posted the project proposal for Indiana, with press coverage here and here. Not exactly the type of press coverage I would have hoped and almost certainly deserve what I get for suggesting that Ian should be a sole arbiter if a critical decision reached a roadblock – perhaps we’re not quite ready for that just yet. It was well intentioned, and I really do have my roots in community development (trust me). Still, for the most part the comments were positive, and I’m more convinced than ever that there is a need for this to happen. I of course share the same concerns as most – can we call it OpenSolaris? should we be discouraging other distributions by wanting it to be a reference distribution? where are the resource coming from?
Having thought about this solidly for the past 4 or 5 weeks, I do have some more concrete thoughts of what I think this should be rather than the intentionally vague outline in the project proposal. Drop me a line, tell me what you think – good or bad, I’m ready to listen.
Randomly bumped into Nat last night on the streets of San Francisco – was good to see him, although I had to rush out. Attended the 401 Group networking session – was good to catch up with Cote and meet some new folk, but found the non-bloggable panel a little lame.
I’m back travelling again. Tonight Jayne and I head down to Christchurch to begin 3 weeks of looking after her sister’s kids. Tomorrow we hope to see the excellent Banff film festival showing, and hopefully a beer or two. Monday I’m back out to California for 4 days, to spend some time in the Menlo Park offices talking to a lot of people – if you’d like to meet up, drop me a mail, I’d love to sit down and talk. Looking forward to finally catching a Sillicon Valley OpenSolaris user group session, and with Ian presenting on Project Indiana, it’s sure to be an active night of discussion. I’ll also be at an open source reception sponsored by 451 group on Tuesday night, and possibly this if jet lag permits.
Pretty thrilled for Seth Wagoner that Interclue has now launched – a Firefox extension designed to make your life easier when browsing the web. It’s helpful to see text previews of the various links (unlike the various other competing extensions that only show an outdated screenshot), and I use this one quite a bit in my day to day browsing. Great to see this sort of stuff come out of the NZ IT, even if it means that we now can’t tease Seth anymore about when he is going to release. Now it’s out there, I can only imagine it will get better and better. Rock on Seth, nice work!
