Saturday April 23, 2005
Saturday April 23, 2005 Solaris BOFs Just Keep Going and Going...
Why do Solaris-related BOFs always run so late at night? Last Wednesday night, I kissed my children good night and drove down to Santa Clara to attend the MySQL and Solaris 10 BOF which Dan Price was hosting, part of the MySQL Users Conference. I arrived a bit early for the BOF, and luck was with me - the MySQL conference Quiz Show was still going on. I sat next to Gina Blaber who is Director of Conferences at O'Reilly, got to hear an excellent rendition of a Pope joke by Kaj Arno of MySQL (he's got the voice for comedy), and watch a contest in which the losers won books and the winners won t-shirts. Kind of a strange twist for an O'Reilly conference, huh?
Alan DuBoff took some excellent photos at the Solaris BOF (well, except for the one of me - ick) and there were several other engineers in the crowd to help answer questions, too - Jonathan Adams, Andrei Dorofeev, Eric Saxe. Stephen Harpster (a newly minted blogger!) was there from OpenSolaris as well.
The Best Part of the BOF: the questions, the interest, the conversation. (Oh, and Dan did a great job leading the discussion. Perhaps we can get him to post some of his slides on his blog?)
Anyway, I finally got a good night's sleep last night, so I'm now recovered from the late-night Solaris BOF. The late-night aspect has become standard operating procedure for us - which I'm actually quite jazzed about - since it gives evidence to the fact that there is a community of motivated, interested, enthusiastic engineers who want to be part of OpenSolaris.
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