Saturday November 12, 2005
Saturday November 12, 2005 
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Back in September I married my interests in Flickr and OpenSolaris by creating a Flickr group called OpenSolarisEnthusiast. The idea - to give people a place to post cool photos of themselves wearing their OpenSolaris gear - and to show the rest of the world how very real the growing OpenSolaris community is. After all, it's one thing to know that almost 10,000 people have registered in the OpenSolaris community in the first 150 days but it's another to see a picture of Patrick sporting his OpenSolaris shirt on his honeymoon no less.
So how's the Flickr group going in its first 50 days, you ask? So far, 25 enthusiasts have joined the Flickr group. And 22 photos have been posted from the Dead Sea, Paris and the Coliseum in Rome, from the Great Wall of China and an OpenSolaris User Group meeting in Texas, from a winery in Israel and from the OpenOffice.org conference in Slovenia! There's a great shot of Alan and his daughter in Australia and a photo of Bart on the Monster Garage boat wearing his OpenSolaris cap. One of the OpenSolaris Pilot members (a group of almost 150 people outside Sun who helped us prepare for launching this community) even posted a snapshot of his IKEA-framed, numbered OpenSolaris Pilot poster. (#037/150)
For those of you who haven't tried using the Flickr photo sharing service yet, I entreat you to try it. It's an easy-to-use and addictive way to share your photos. Flickr was originally a startup and was bought by Yahoo earlier this year. One of the things I like best about the service is how they use metrics to communicate what kind of attention things are getting. Such as how many times a photo has been viewed, how many photos have been tagged with a particular tag (tags such as OpenSolaris), how many photos in a group, how many members in a group. Some call this the Interestingness of Flickr.
If you're passionate about OpenSolaris, and if you like the cool t-shirts (I prefer the black to the white), here's a good way to share that passion. Join the OpenSolarisEnthusiast group on Flickr.
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