Sunday September 19, 2004 Open Source Summit in Santa Clara
Ok, some of you have read about the Open Source Summit that Sun held recentely in Santa Clara, CA. I've read some interesting comments from people on the web that have somehow been kind enough to post what they have heard in the form of hear-say, and the comments didn't seem very truthful when I compare them against my personal view as an attendee.
For this event, Sun brought in more than a dozen open source figures, some leaders and some members of successful projects in the open source community. There were aprox. 250 attendees who first got to listen to 5 minute lightning talks, and afterwards you could select which breakout sessions you wanted to attend based on your interest in their initial lightning talk. Both the lightning talks as well as the breakout sessions were interesting to most all who attended (based on feedback of the attendees).
We started out with a talk from John Loiacono. I think the guests were convinced that John is very serious about open sourcing Solaris. We also had a special guest appearance from John Gage during the middle of the conference with some interesting comments. The open source team under Claire Giordano which includes Karyn Ritter, Andy Tucker, Jim Grisanzio, Derek Cicero, and Bonnie Corwin, were all in attendance.
Doc Searls gave in interesting talk titled "Beyond the Matrix" which had some interesting analogies. As did Brian Behlendorf who compared the Burning Man Project to open source software.
Other guests included Fred Sanchez (Darwin Project), Joerg Schilling (cdrecord, dvd pro, star, mkisofs, etc...), Mike Shaver (Mozilla), Zak Greant (MySQL), Duncan Davidson (Tomcat), Dan Steinberg (java.net), Bart Smaalders (Solaris Performance), Andy Tucker (Open Solaris Lead), Tim Bray (Bonnie among others), and many others that escape my short memory which comes with getting old...(sigh)...
All in all, Danese Cooper and Simon Phipps did an excellent job at setting up and running the OS Summit.
I have some pictures that I've taken at the OS Summit, please feel free to have a gander for yourself.
( Sep 19 2004, 12:35:41 AM PDT ) Permalink
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