Saturday June 18, 2005
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.
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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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