Life is so good, it gets better every day

Top Dudes

Very sexy performance from the RedMonk boys, and absolutely well deserved for leading the industry on this one.

Not That I didn’t Believe Him For a Second

ZOMG! It’s true! The various photos from the event beg for a bit of lolgeeks action. Who’s keen?

Cote and the Java Posse

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.

And Then We Were Two

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.

OSS Open Sourced!

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.

Community Group Guidelines

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!

GUADEC Fever

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.

The Indiana Problem Statement

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.

Cote on RedMonkTV

Very wise words from Cote on this one, and very obviously relevant to opensolaris.org. The dude needs to change his font though.

Iandiana

Pedro rocks with his Iandiana Jones and the Last Crusade – feels like one at times! Awesome for a hackergotchi too!