Sunday June 12, 2005
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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