The Doc Exchange: alan mcclellan's blog

Greetings. I'm Alan McClellan, new [again] at Sun after a 10 year hiatus, during which time I worked at a couple of startup companies (first, ChannelPoint, which burned through quite a wad of cash back before the tech bubble burst, and more recently, Cassatt, which is still plugging away and making a go of it).

I worked at Sun previously between 1993-1997. I worked at the Rocky Mountain Technology Center doing system administration and installation docs. I had some great experiences and opportunities there, not least of which was to co-author a couple of books:

• Automating Solaris Installations
• Java by Example

I've also worked in the past to encourage other writers and engineers to become authors. To that end, I used my relationships with the folks at Prentice Hall to help turn burgeoning writers with good ideas into published authors.

Now, I'm back at Sun to try to replace Michelle Olson as the community manager for the OpenSolaris documentation community. (Michelle, I'm not saying you have big feet, but your shoes are obviously going to be hard to fill.) That said, I'm willing to take a shot at it. I hope to carry on the fine work Michelle has done to date and to look for ways to grow and expand the OpenSolaris documentation community. Of course, I'll need your help in doing that, so I look forward to the exchange of ideas here on how to take that community forward.