Bio & Position Statement for OpenSolaris Governing Board Election 2008
If I am elected to the OGB, I will bring communication and program management skills to the Board. 'Program' is bigger than a release, so I will drive projects that have impact beyond the scope of a singular release on behalf of OpenSolaris (the community).
I will advocate on behalf of the community to Solaris management and stand in their offices to enable conversations we must have, and indeed, to inspire new conversations we should have as a governing board. I will bring standing conversations I have inside Sun to the OSOL lists in a manner that enables the community to be successful.
I will advocate on behalf of Sun to facilitate constructive electronic conversations, meetings, and projects that serve Sun's business goals to the delight of the non-Sun OSOL community. These projects, like others I have completed (see below), will highlight and reward the hard work and innovations of our community and simultaneously meet business goals for Sun.
Summary of my work on OpenSolaris this year
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- Attended first OSDevCon and first OpenSolaris Developer's Summit and blogged my notes of each. I've also represented OpenSolaris at LinuxWorld San Francisco, JavaOne, FOSDEM, SIGCSE, SIGDOC and regularly attend SVOSUG.
- Delivered source for 4,300 SunOS man pages under OSI-approved CDDL to the opensolaris man page consolidation with bi-weekly builds of changed files.
- Delivered source for 36 technical manuals under Public Documentation License v1.01 to the opensolaris docs consolidation with monthly updates of changed books.
- Delivered 7 versions of the OpenSolaris Starter Kit. The OpenSolaris Starter Kit includes Nexenta, Schillix, Belenix, Solaris Express Community Edition and documentation in nine languages for each distro. We have shipped nearly 100K copies of the kit to 106 countries in nine languages (de, cn, pl, it, ja, es, ptbr, ru).
- Delivered two complete updates to the OpenSolaris Student Guide, distributing 40K copies in pocket-book size in nine languages. Contributors to the book are named on page 12. This guide was used to create a High School course for OpenSolaris in Brazil and serves as a starting point for university operating system curriculum with OpenSolaris in all the examples.
- Initiated creation of the first and only source repository hosted on the Indiana Project to date, ssh://anon-AT-hg.opensolaris-DOT-org/hg/indiana/docs1
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I'd be honored to serve on the OGB in 2008!
