Saturday June 25, 2005
Saturday June 25, 2005 A lot of OpenSolaris happenings at JavaOne next week
Next week the JavaOne conference is up in SF and there seems to be much preparation going on up at Moscone this weekend. Do keep an eye on James Gosling's blog (now on roller with a great theme - cool) for more insights about the goings-on in the Java world. And - if you like fast performing applications (or just hip ipods) - check out the Solaris 10 DTrace Challenge at JavaOne.
Now - an invitation. I want to invite any OpenSolaris users or developers and any Java developers interested in leveraging the OpenSolaris platform to the:
Java Technology on the OpenSolaris Platform BOF
Monday 6/27, 2005 at 7:30pm PT
Marriott Hotel in the Golden Gate B1 room
at JavaOne in San Francisco, California
For more BOF details about the what and the who, check out Stephen's blog entry.
And - Adam will be leading on session titled "DTrace and Java™ Technology: Understanding the Application and the Entire Stack" at JavaOne on Thursday 6/30 at 1:15pm PT in Room 121/122 (TS-5211.) Definitely worth checking out.
Finally, Simon has organized a Free-as-in-Beer party for Java Bloggers on Monday evening. Details here. Have fun!
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(2005-06-25 03:10:32.0) Permalink
OpenSolaris in Tokyo: A Dictionary for Source Code
Stephen Harpster and I were in Tokyo, Japan this week to meet with people about OpenSolaris. It was an exciting week. Discussions at universities, with customers and with the press. Lots of delicious Japanese food - from sushi to traditional noodles to shabu shabu to tempura. (I'm going to need to work out seriously to recover from all the amazing cuisine.) A cosmopolitan and hi-tech city. A chance to meet some employees of Sun Japan who are strong advocates for Solaris - and now OpenSolaris. Our host, Masatsuga Koketsu, was an excellent guide and mentor - he also blogs about OpenSolaris in Japanese. We also met fellow Sun bloggers and OpenSolaris advocates Akira Ohsone and Takaaki Higuchi.
Thought I'd share a photo of Stephen and me with Professor Kazuhiko Kato of the University of Tsukuba in Tokyo. Professor Kato gave us some good suggestions and ideas for driving adoption of OpenSolaris with computer science students in Japan. One of my favorite quotes from the visit came from Professor Kato, who was quite impressed with the OpenSolaris Source Browser created by Chandan and called it "a dictionary for source code." That it certainly is. Good work, Chandan. (Photo taken by Toshinori Kujiraoka of the Sun Education & Research Sales team. Thanks Kujira-san!)
I've uploaded other photos from the trip to Tokyo onto Flickr and have tagged them with our OpenSolaris tag, so they should soon (but not for a while) show up on the OpenSolaris Flickr page.. Check it out!
Finally, if you haven't already looked at Stephen's blog about the press conference (or Ohsone-san's blog) - here are links to the online articles in Japan about OpenSolaris. Warning - they are in Japanese! And yes, Stephen's right, having 40 cameras flashing at you at once is a bit distracting. :-)
Enterprise Watch on OpenSolaris 6/22/2005
Ascii Business Center OpenSolaris article 6/22/2005
ZDnet Japan on OpenSolaris 6/22/2005
NewsInsight OpenSolaris article 6/23/2005
PC Watch on OpenSolaris 6/22/2005
Japan.Internet.Com on OpenSolaris 6/23/2005
ITPro OpenSolaris article 6/22/2005
ITMedia Enterprise on OpenSolaris 6/22/2005
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(2005-06-25 00:59:47.0) Permalink
Monday June 20, 2005 Sifting OpenSolaris Blogs from Tokyo
From the still of the night in Tokyo, Japan, I thought I would close off "Opening Week" for OpenSolaris by sifting through some of the interesting OpenSolaris launch blogs. Bryan and Liane have been doing a great job by sifting, listing and then doing more-sifting of the technical OpenSolaris blogs. I thought I would add to their effort by pointing out some of the interesting, provocative and amusing blogs that do not focus on the source code per se but do focus on the community and the conversation.
Note to readers - I'm quite sure this will not be my last "sifting blog". I keep finding more! So if I haven't included your blog, perhaps I haven't found it yet. Please send me a link...
From my del.icio.us links, in no particular order (all tagged with OpenSolaris and OpeningDay, of course.)
Hal Stern: OpenSolaris - No Excluded Middle
Hal would rather have multiple vibrant OS communities than a world with one dominant OS
Hal Stern: Initial and Incremental Innovation
On the importance of incremental innovation and how open source enables it...
Sin-Yaw Wang: OpenSolaris Perfect for China
Sin-Yaw's thoughts on opportunities for OpenSolaris in China...
Jim Grisanzio's Blog: Open
Jim greets Opening Day with the story about the OpenSolaris Pilot Program...
Lauren Wood's Anyway on OpenSolaris
Gotta love it - a flashback on the OpenSolaris launch written 5 years in the future
Marc Hamilton: Launch Thoughts on OpenSolaris
nice redux of defining moments in technology and speculation on whether opensolaris will be one...
Tim Bray's Ongoing: OpenSolaris Blogs Oh My
Oh my indeed. The OpenSolaris blogs are fascinating. Tim comments on a few...
Blogging Roller: Go OpenSolaris!
"They said it couldn't be done. They were wrong. OpenSolaris has been released..."
Alethiometer: Opening Day blog
Stephen Harpster quotes Wizard of Oz to welcome OpenSolaris Opening Day...
Kazem Ardekanian's Cartoon blog on OpenSolaris
Amusing cartoon from Kazem to commemorate OpenSolaris launch...
Sin-Yaw Wang: Browsing Solaris
VP lets out his geeky side and uses the wicked fast OpenSolaris source browser...
Ben Rockwood: OpenSolaris on Silicon View
Ben shoots the OpenSolaris Opening Day billboard on US HW 101 in CA (thx, Sara!)
Jonathan's Blog: Free Software Has No Pirates
Good read - about why we would open source Solaris (and make it free) - and how it helps Sun - and others
tecosystems: OpenSolaris Q&A
About the OpenSolarisLaunch - with good words about the blogging and tagging (and me)
Andy Lark: Blogs Play Key Role in Launch of OpenSolaris
About the non-traditional OpenSolaris launch - and Andy mentions LianeP, Steve O'Grady, and me.
Patrick Finch's Peregrinations: Something to get excited about
That operating systems should be as freely accessible as mathematics or languages...
Simon Phipps SunMink: Real Unix, Real Open, in a Real Torrent
Simon welcomes OpenSolaris on Opening Day - and is thrilled about BitTorrent's role in OpenSolaris
Laura Ramsey's Hello World blog: 12:01am EDT Jun 14 2005 entry
Big welcome to Laura as she enters the blogosphere for Opening Day...
Chandan's Blog: OpenSolaris Mascot?
Chandan - engineer and artist - proposes two very different mascot alternatives for OpenSolaris
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(2005-06-20 05:46:28.0) Permalink
Saturday June 18, 2005 Thought some of you might be interested in seeing the email that Jim Grisanzio - OpenSolaris Community Manager - sent to the people who had requested to be notified of the OpenSolaris launch. (When we announced CDDL and made the Solaris DTrace source code available as open source back in Jan 2005, there was a signup box in the upper right hand corner of the barebones website for people who wished to be notified once the whole kit and kiboodle was launched.) Jim wrote the email himself - it's not a contrived artificial sales email written by a dweeb in some corporate office but rather a from the heart notification of Opening Day. Thanks, Jim.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jim Grisanzio
Date: Jun 14, 2005 8:59 AM
Subject: Opening Day for OpenSolaris
You are receiving this e-mail at [...] because you requested a reminder from OpenSolaris.org for additional information. To update your communications preferences, please see the link at the bottom of this message. We respect your privacy and post our privacy policy at www.sun.com/privacy
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Sun is Open Sourcing Solaris OS
Today, June 14, 2005, is Opening Day for OpenSolaris.
http://see.sun.com/Apps/DCS
Dear Sun Community Member:
I'm happy to tell you that the OpenSolaris project is now open, and we welcome your participation at our new community site:
http://see.sun.com/Apps/DCS
When you visit the site you'll see we have the OpenSolaris source code, a new source browser, build tools, documentation, a community portal, mailing lists, blogs, and much more.
There are many ways for developers to immediately start contributing to the project, such as testing code, fixing bugs, documenting processes, and suggesting RFEs. You can also follow the technical conversations among Solaris engineers and the community on the long-term co-development model. Additionally, Sun is collaborating with the OpenSolaris Community Advisory board (CAB) on the overall governance proposal -- which will be debated, iterated, and ratified in the open right on opensolaris.org.
There are also 145 OpenSolaris Pilot Program participants from around the world who have been working with Sun for nine months on the project. They have detailed knowledge of the code and tools, so many of them -- in collaboration with engineers at Sun -- can help educate new community members. The best place to meet these developers is the project's main discuss list.
The OpenSolaris source base is large, around 10 million lines, but if you go to
http://see.sun.com/Apps/DCS
you will see hundreds of OpenSolaris engineering blogs from across Sun's engineering community explaining in detail the code they have written. The amount of technical content in these engineering blogs is impressive, and you can expect even more as we go. You can also find those blogs, as well as the pilot community blogs, at opensolaris.org.
We have tried to make the OpenSolaris project a place where engineers talk directly to engineers. This is the first step in the process, and we welcome your involvement. This is a community that takes collaboration and quality seriously. It's a community that has a lot of offer, and it's a community that's open minded. Come join us.
Best,
Jim Grisanzio
Community Manager, OpenSolaris
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
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(2005-06-18 13:25:53.0) Permalink
Friday June 17, 2005 OpenSolaris Billboard on Opening Day - w00t!
Here's an image of the electronic billboard that ran on Opening Day for OpenSolaris on Highway 101 in northern California. Thanks to Sara for working with the creative folks to put this together. There's nothing like seeing your name (well, your project's name) up in bright lights. Thought I'd share it here for the many people who do not live in the Bay Area...
Ben Rockwood, OpenSolaris Pilot Community member and one of the most expressive, passionate people you'll ever meet - he's an intelligent geek who wears kilts, basically - took a photo of the billboard from the highway and posted it on his blog here. Check it out!
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Thursday June 16, 2005 OpenSolaris Fan Buttons and Banners
Some background about the cool OpenSolaris fan buttons and banners... The code in the background is real DTrace code from OpenSolaris, and members of the OpenSolaris Pilot community came up with many of the "taglines" used - things like OpenSolaris enthusiast, for-the-enterprising, innovation-matters, love-at-first-boot, i-boot, link(2), innovate-on and access(2).
The Chinese characters on one of the buttons mean, according to Sin-Yaw Wang and some of his compatriots in the Beijing office, "a fanatically devoted (cult-like) member". Sounds passionate, huh?
My favorite is the corniest one of all - "love at first boot". And because I was born in Taipei, Taiwan - I'm partial to the Chinese characters, too.
I do like the art and I hope that a whole bunch of you will as well. (Big thanks to David Lee and Glenn Martinez for that.) I also appreciate all the work that Tiki Dare (our trademark lawyer) did to make it easy for people to get the buttons while still accomodating the various trademark rules and regs. And thanks to the Spread Firefox folks for setting such a good example with their buttons and banners.
If you're an OpenSolaris community member, thinking about becoming a community member or are just jazzed about the idea of open sourcing the kind of innovative technology that's in Solaris 10 in order to enable innovation across the industry - and you want to use one of the fan buttons and banners - just go to the OpenSolaris.org button page to get the html code snippets to put in your blog or on your website. It's that e-z to help spread the word!
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Tuesday June 14, 2005 Overview of Opening Day for OpenSolaris
Welcome to OpenSolaris. Opening Day is here. No, not the MLB-style variety. Don't get me wrong - baseball is interesting -and anyone who knows me already knows that one of my favorite books is set in the world of baseball. The Opening Day I'm talking about is the culmination of years of work, by many people, marked by late nights, early mornings, passionate debates, tremendous dedication, more than a few challenges, big cell phone bills, the generosity of many, and a heck of a lot of commitment.Opening Day for OpenSolaris. w00t! It's a virtual launch, almost entirely online. Hopefully the community's passion and excitement will come through the internet in full dress regalia. Everyone seems to have their own story about why Solaris - and now OpenSolaris - matters to them. I've poured a huge amount of my time and energy into this project over the last year and a half - and what's kept me going, more than the technology, more than the code (sorry, Bryan), and more than my New England work ethic - are the people. These OpenSolaris geeks and marketers are a talented bunch, and they know how to make things - innovative things - happen. I take my hat off to the engineering and marketing teams and to the OpenSolaris Pilot members. Thank you.
For the curious folks out there, here's a quick overview of what's happening:
1. The community website is now live at opensolaris.org!
Please check it out - for access to the source code (and the nifty source browser), downloads, developer tools (OpenSolaris is buildable with both the Sun Studio compilers and GNU compilers), information about the OpenSolaris project, getting started docs and - most importantly - a place for the conversation.
2. Big welcome mat in the blogosphere from OpenSolaris (and Solaris) enthusiasts, developers, users, pilot members and community members.
Find out more about what people really think about OpenSolaris at blogs.sun.com (for Sun employees) and also at the opensolaris.org blog page.
3. No press release. Which is good, because I agree with Steve O'Grady in my dislike of "press release voice" - it sounds artificial and contrived, and I don't know where it was written that press releases must be written in a voice that isn't clear, direct, and, well, human.
There is, however, a short and sweet "media alert" - very short - that tells the media about opensolaris.org and blogs.sun.com. It should be available in the OpenSolaris online press kit on sun.com.
4. Sun.com feature story, updates to sun.com/solaris, sun.com/opensolaris and other websites to point to opensolaris.org.
5. Letter to Sun customers and partners, and to anyone who registered on the opensolaris.org site since Jan 25th asking to be notified at launch.
6. All sorts of information made available to Sun's employees to keep them informed - of what OpenSolaris means for the company, how it can change the dynamics of the industry, why they should care, why they should talk to their customers about this...
7. Really cool electronic billboard ad on Highway 101 - hopefully I'll have a picture to post later in the day (if Ben doesn't get a ticket.)
8. Fan buttons and banners - with real code. Easy to acquire. Lovely to look at. Even a corny "love at first boot" sentiment for the cornballs among you. And the Chinese characters are roughly equivalent to "enthusiast". I've been told that more precisely they mean "a fanatically devoted (cult-like) member". Sounds good to me. (And I had dinner last night with the artist who created the buttons!)
9. Teleconference at 1pm PDT Tue 6/14 to answer questions from media and analysts and share the basics about the launch.
Oh, and did I mention the community site at opensolaris.org? The bloggers at blogs.sun.com? That Studio compilers are free for OpenSolaris participants at opensolaris.org? The excitement? the millions of lines of newly opened source code? The tremendous interest from university professors and governments in the Asia-Pacific region? A true open source license that my team authored in CDDL. That it takes a village...? (That I'm sleepy?) Hello, world. Enjoy!
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(2005-06-14 08:25:10.0) Permalink
Speaking of my new marketing gig, and spreading the word about OpenSolaris, I love the fact that on the web, and particularly in the blogosphere, you can see the OpenSolaris presence. Check out the OpenSolaris Technorati page - which pulls together an overview of recent OpenSolaris-tagged items from Technorati, del.icio.us, and Flickr. Cool stuff.
If you've got interesting OpenSolaris content, be sure to use our tag: OpenSolaris.
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(2005-06-14 03:03:24.0) Permalink
Sunday June 12, 2005 I have not printed new business cards since 2000. This is a problem. Particularly since back at the end of March (2.5 months ago now), after 16 years in engineering - as a software engineer, program manager and senior engineering manager - I decided to a do a bit of a career experiment and accepted a senior management position leading the OpenSolaris marketing effort. Crazy, huh? Not so crazy when you realize how passionate I am about the OpenSolaris project. From the moment John Loiacono invited me to his office in October 2003 and asked me to build a team and make OpenSolaris happen - way back before we even had the name OpenSolaris - I've been jazzed about the prospect of opening the source and building this community. Now, rather than directing the engineering effort, it's my community marketing team's job to build awareness, spread the word, drive adoption and help strengthen and grow the OpenSolaris community.
This marketing effort will involve working to get university computer science departments interested in the OpenSolaris technology connected to the right people in the community and at Sun, connecting with startups and open source companies interested in building on top of OpenSolaris, talking to government officials considering the role of open source and OpenSolaris in their operations, and spreading the word to make sure that OpenSolaris gets on the radar screens of those who are interested in innovation, advancing the state of the art in operating systems, taking costs out for customers, and building a community.
Those of you who work closely with me, well, you know about my new gig. But since not all of you know, I thought I'd share the news. :-) Wish me luck.
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