The Doc Exchange: alan mcclellan's blog

Well, I've just wrapped up my first quarter as the OpenSolaris documentation community manager (modulo a pre-arranged trip to Europe :-). I have several impressions to share:

• Boy, Michelle Olson set the bar high! Darn you, Michelle!
• The OpenSolaris summit - I started work on a Saturday, attending the OpenSolaris summit in Santa Cruz. What a whirlwind that was, but I got my first exposure to some of the passionate and committed folks in the community and found some extremely strong advocates of the docs community. Very cool.
• Followed up the summit with CommunityOne and JavaOne. 2008.05 announced with great fanfare and excitement. Also very cool.
• Neil Young at JavaOne. Pretty darn cool.
  
• Returned to Colorado and started finding my way through  various meetings, organizations, discussion lists, tools,  licensing models, terminology (from encumbered man pages to OpenSolaris extrusions), package manager, consolidations, repositories, and more.
• Had a great meeting hosted by Ben Rockwood to kind of ground the community in who's doing what in OpenSolaris docs. 

My take today is that I'm still not sure what 100% of this job looks like, but I think I'm about 50% there. As I opened with...Darn you Michelle! :-)

I appreciate everybody's patience and support and I'm really looking forward to the next few months. Feel free to contact me directly or via docs-discuss with any inputs on what I'm doing well or not so well.