Took a few days off and went down to the ocean at Atami ...
Saturday Jul 04, 2009
I hope to check out three community events in Tokyo in the next week or so:
- 7/10:
OpenSolaris User Group: ZFS and OpenSolaris Security
- 7/11: Tokyo Linux
User Group: Network Security and ZFS
- 7/13:
Tokyo2Point0: Cloud Computing and Lightning Talks
The timing is good, too. Canon called. They fixed my lens.
Friday Jul 03, 2009
The guys in the Venezuela OpenSolaris
User Group came up with a pretty cool logo ...
I like the one from the Chile OpenSolaris User Group too ...
And there are many more, of course. See all the OpenSolaris User Groups here. It`s great to see all the personalities coming alive in artwork.
I like the one from the Chile OpenSolaris User Group too ...
And there are many more, of course. See all the OpenSolaris User Groups here. It`s great to see all the personalities coming alive in artwork.
Tuesday Jun 30, 2009
Ashwin Bhat and Angad Singh asked me for one minute of my time outside the keynote hall at CommunityOne a few weeks ago. Hey, what's a minute, right? Happy to. But this minute was to be digitally recorded. Uha. Video. I generally shy away from such things because I`m shy about being interviewed. But these are really good guys and they`ve done great work as Campus Ambassadors in India, so I felt safe in front of their camera (though I`d clearly much rather be behind the camera). It wasn't too bad, though. But the 1 minute ran for 2 minutes and 21 seconds! Anyway. Thanks, guys. Great fun. Hope to get back to India sometime soon.
Monday Jun 29, 2009
I've been checking out the Tokyo Hackerspace gmail list for a few weeks. Looks very interesting. The project grew out of some discussions at BarCamp Tokyo
a couple of months ago, and I spoke to Karamoon about it at the OpenSolaris community event this weekend. In a world of ever expanding global digital communities, it
seems like a nice idea to have a very local a very physical space to
hang out in and hack on things that need hacking. Global and digital are
fine, but local and physical are needed too. For info, check it out on the wiki.
Sunday Jun 28, 2009
Four members of the Japan OpenSolaris Community wrote a book on ZFS recently. It`s coming out in July, and it`s specifically for the Japanese market. The cover has not been selected yet, but here are the early details: ZFS 仮想化されたファイルシステムの徹底活用 (大型本) by Hisayoshi Kato, Michitoshi Sato, Nagahara Niroharu, and Imai Satoshi. This is quite a significant contribution to the community in Japan because it`s important to have technical content written by Japanese engineers for Japanese engineers. Translating English content from the west good, of course, but the generation of original content in Japanese also needs to be part of this community`s growth plans.
Here are some more books on OpenSolaris: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/tags/book
The Japan OpenSolaris Community together on Saturday. Nice day (and night). About 60 people came by for the three sessions, two of which were in Japanese and the third in English. Then all three groups came together for a nomikai. I think the model works well to start integrating the Japanese and international OpenSolaris communities.
I used a new lens
for this event. My f/1.4 lens is getting fixed, so I borrowed Jon`s
50mm f/1.2, which is one scary smart lens. It`s a tad expensive, too,
so I was more than a little nervous shooting with it. Anyway, at f/1.2 the
focus is just razor thin. Focus on someone`s glasses and their entire face
is out. I messed up a few images that way, but by the end of the night
I was getting used to it. Amazing piece of glass. By the way, you can see Jon`s stuff
here. He`s one of the best photographers around.
Saturday Jun 27, 2009
It's excellent to see the 9th Annual Linux Kernel Summit and the 1st Annual Japan Linux Symposium
coming to Tokyo in October. Check out this language from the LF
website: "The Japan Linux Symposium will be the showcase Japan and Asia
Pacific conference for The Linux Foundation." Showcase. This is
significant. The Japanese may not shout about it much, but developers
in this country are contributing to FOSS and their contributions are
growing. The potential in Japan for open source is huge. I've been
saying it since I got here. So cool that the LF clearly recognizes this
potential by bringing their conferences here. Also interesting: the LF website appears in two languages -- English and Japanese.
I already hang out with the Tokyo Linux User Group (here, here), so I hope to attend this gig in October.
I already hang out with the Tokyo Linux User Group (here, here), so I hope to attend this gig in October.
Nothing like going right to the very top, eh? My goodness. Here's the OpenSolaris community in Brazil at FISL hanging out with Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
I think this sets a new standard in government relations for the entire
OpenSolaris community, don't you think? So, each one of us around the
world now has to go out and shoot some images (video is fine, too) of
our country's leader standing with our respective communities all
dressed up in OpenSolaris stuff. Ok. Should be easy enough. Just send
your images to osug-leaders or advocacy-discuss, and we'll collect them there.
Absolutely. Outrageous.
Absolutely. Outrageous.
Friday Jun 26, 2009
I just updated to OpenSolaris development build 117. Easy. Go get it here.
I love these six videos of street photographers walking around shooting images in New York City. My fav is Sandra, who said, "Wow, this is what a father looks like when no one`s looking." She photographs day laborers. She gets that trust takes time.
Thursday Jun 25, 2009
A Workers’ Paradise Found Off Japan’s Coast: “Mr. Fujimoto said he would resign immediately if a serious rival appeared in an election. `That would be a sign the village has lost confidence in me,` he said.” -- New York Times
Interesting. I really must visit this place.
Tuesday Jun 23, 2009
Communicating is all about building relationships, and that`s always a
two way street (or if you are in the community business, a multi-way
street). Every wonder what a rapid fire relationship with Rahm is like. Check out Ring,
ring, it's Rahm:
NBC’s Chuck Todd calls the Emanuel relationship “no-nonsense.”The shock value of his delivery is interesting (he can do that because he`s powerful), but even more important is the bit about the information extraction. Information has to flow both ways to demonstrate the value of the relationship.
“He’s always trying to extract as much information as he’s trying to give,” Todd says.
But the conversations with Emanuel “can be as little as 30 seconds,” Paul Begala, the CNN commentator and longtime Emanuel friend says. “He calls, drops a few F-bombs, makes his point and hangs up.”
Monday Jun 22, 2009
When I was in San Francisco a few weeks ago, I picked The
48 Laws of Power and The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene. If
you love history and the study of how things really get done, check
these books out. I can`t put them down. I can see how Greene`s stuff
would come handy while defending yourself against the packs of wild dogs running
around out there. Some very nice tips in these books. Greene seems like an
interesting character, too. Study hard. I am.
Saturday Jun 20, 2009
I love this. An excavating contractor has five or six heavy backhoes on this site ripping apart an old concrete building. And they are painted a lovely shade of pink with white polka dots. How`s that for business development for an industry not used to such style, eh? I was on a bus driving by the other day and had my little camera, so I really couldn`t get a good shot, but you get the idea. This is a contractor with an attitude, no question about it. And in Japan, too. Wild. I`d like to meet him. Or perhaps her?
I went to the Tokyo launch of OpenSolaris 2009.06 at Sun's office in
Jingumae earlier tonight. Good turn out of about 100 people. The
lineup: Introduction, Akira Ohsone; OpenSolaris 2009.06, Shunsuke
Kuroda; OpenSolaris Demo, Shoji Haraguchi; Solaris 10 5/09, Hiroaki
Nozaki; and CommunityOne West Report, Masafumi Ohta. See videos here from Shoji. This is the third
such launch of OpenSolaris in Tokyo. Both the 2008.05 and 2008.11
events were excellent as well. Tonight seemed to be an interesting mix
of Sun Solaris 10 customers and the growing OpenSolaris communities in
Tokyo. There was also some chatter on #opensolaris-jp on IRC.
Nice night.
OpenSolaris in Japan: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/tags/jposug
OpenSolaris Launches in Japan: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/tags/os-tokyo-launches
Thursday Jun 18, 2009
As part of the new schedule for the website transition, there are two important deadlines to get collective infrastructure (Communities, Projects, User Groups) on opensolaris.org:
June 30th: Hidden Collectives: All collectives in a hidden state on opensolaris.org must be opened by June 30th or they will be deleted. Mail has been sent to these collective owners who will be affected. A few weeks ago there were about 40 hidden collectives, but that list is down to about a dozen now. On June 30th it will be zero. Also, on the new site, there will be no feature for "hidden" collectives. The current site's feature of hiding projects is a badly implemented bug. Any user logged into the site can find a hidden project if they know the URL (or are good at guessing), and repos from hidden projects show up in searchers as well. The new site will not put up with this.
July 20th: New Collectives: There will be a moratorium on setting up new collectives starting July 20th as we prepare to implement Phase 1 of the transition (Auth database goes live) at the end of July. If you have outstanding proposals for new Communities, Projects, or User Groups, you must send your approval threads to the project-setup list by July 20th. Please refer to the new Website Infrastructure: Collective Life Cycle Instructions document for implementation details when requesting new infrastructure.
June 30th: Hidden Collectives: All collectives in a hidden state on opensolaris.org must be opened by June 30th or they will be deleted. Mail has been sent to these collective owners who will be affected. A few weeks ago there were about 40 hidden collectives, but that list is down to about a dozen now. On June 30th it will be zero. Also, on the new site, there will be no feature for "hidden" collectives. The current site's feature of hiding projects is a badly implemented bug. Any user logged into the site can find a hidden project if they know the URL (or are good at guessing), and repos from hidden projects show up in searchers as well. The new site will not put up with this.
July 20th: New Collectives: There will be a moratorium on setting up new collectives starting July 20th as we prepare to implement Phase 1 of the transition (Auth database goes live) at the end of July. If you have outstanding proposals for new Communities, Projects, or User Groups, you must send your approval threads to the project-setup list by July 20th. Please refer to the new Website Infrastructure: Collective Life Cycle Instructions document for implementation details when requesting new infrastructure.
I drafted a new document to answer questions about collective life cycle issues on opensolaris.org -- Website Infrastructure: Collective Life Cycle Instructions. The document lives in the Website Community Group and attempts to explain the infrastructure implementation procedures I go through on project-setup for Community Groups, Projects, and User Groups. It also points to all the other documents that are involved in various stages. We can`t unify all those documents at the moment, so I thought that a doc outlining basic procedures and putting the other docs in context would be helpful and would simplify some things. I think I got everything in there for this first cut, but I am sure it will all evolve over time. Glynn Foster drafted an excellent group life cycle document as part of the proposed constitution in March, but that entire effort wasn`t successful so I`ll work it this way and see where we go. At the very least, it helps clarify the implementation part of the process.
Wednesday Jun 17, 2009
Here are some images from Tokyo CGM Night Episode 5 at KDDI Web
Communications the other night. The event was hosted on by Danny Choo and Andrew Shuttleworth, of course,
and it was nice to see a lot of friends and some interesting new
characters as well. Here is the home of CGM night at Danny
Choo`s place. Strange night, though. Too much light. Just as I was
starting to get used to shooting in the dark they turned the lights on.
Great fun as usual, though.
Tuesday Jun 16, 2009
The OpenSolaris community in Japan is planning its second multi-session user group meeting -- combining the Japan OSUG and the Tokyo OSUG. The meeting will be in Sun`s Yoga office (directions with photos here) on Saturday June 27th. It`s a killer line up, too. Stop by if you are new to OpenSolaris or if you are an experienced developer. All are welcome. I have OpenSolaris t-shirts to give out, too.
Monday Jun 15, 2009
We added some new OpenSolaris User Groups
lately, so we are up to 148 now. Check the leaders grid for an OSUG
near you. And if you are starting an OSUG in your area and want us to
link to your website and/or discussion forum on Google, Yahoo,
Facebook, LinkedIn, etc, then please do and ping us on advocacy-discuss
and osug-leaders and we'll get connected. Or if you'd like to propose a
new OSUG using infrastructure on opensolairs.org, then the process is outlined here. Stop by.
If you have an account on opensolairs.org (and there should be over
100k of you), then you should have received the email below sometime
over the last couple of days. This mailing starts a series of direct
communications we have planned to walk users of opensolaris.org through
the transition to the new website this summer. More coming.
Hello,
You are receiving this email because you have an account on the http://opensolaris.org website.
Changes are being made to this website this summer to enable the implementation of a more complete open development platform and provide wiki functionality. Changes will occur in phases, with Phase 1 targeted for late July 2009.
In Phase 1, the site will begin using a new membership management application and associated database.
The transition to this new system will involve updates to:
- site registration,
- some roles, rights and functionality on the site,
- the notice regarding how your personal information provided
during registration will be used.
As we get closer to the transition date, you will receive more detailed information and instructions about actions you will have to take when this transition occurs.
Information about the transition and coming changes is available here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/web/
A beta version of the membership management application is available here: http://auth.opensolaris.org/
Subscribe to the website-discuss mailing list to receive announcements and other information about the coming changes.
Thank you.
Bonnie Corwin
Senior Software Engineering Manager
OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration Team
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Unix is 40 and OpenSolaris is 4. Happy birthday, OpenSolairs! Four years ago we opened the OS/Net consolidation source code (but six months before that we opened DTrace). Opening sequence here.
Saturday Jun 13, 2009
I've been thinking that it might be an interesting time to do a little kernel conference for OpenSolaris, Linux, and the BSDs right here in Tokyo. Get everyone together. See what happens. What the heck.
We could hold the event right at the Sun office on the 27th floor just like BarCamp back in May. We already hold the Tokyo Linux User Group meetings here and get about 40 people each time, we hold OpenSolaris meetings and get about 40 people (and about 100 for formal product launches), and BarCamp drew 100 people from multiple communities. That`s basically where I got the idea from -- and, of course, watching James C. McPherson put together his kernel conference in Australia. So, I wonder what would happen if we organized a day long conference specifically to bring together developers and community members from the key open source operating systems in an informal, un-conference format? I wonder what technology and community building bits we could all share together? I bet we could attract 150 top guys from Tokyo, and I bet we'd make quite an impression in the process. And I think there is more than enough talent right here to pull it off without having to call in people from the U.S. or Europe (although they'd certainly be welcome to come and participate, of course).
Just kicking this idea around ...
This morning Bonnie posted two
documents supporting the Phase 1 website transition plans:
Also, I appreciate more than ever the process I went through in the recent past attempting to re-write the OpenSolaris Constitution. Building and describing the new site would have been so much easier had that Constitution been approved in March. But it wasn`t. That`s life I suppose. So, now we have to implement the old Constitution while also accounting for things that document doesn`t even mention because it came about after the original site was designed. Not to mention all the odd stuff that evolved (and broke) on the current site -- all of which has to be migrated to the new site. As a result, in August we will have some things covered under Governance and some things covered under generally accepted practice -- and that last bit was really the basis of the concept we were trying to move toward with the proposed Constitution. Hopefully, the OGB will at some point this year take up that proposed Constitution again, get it updated, and get it approved so our Governance documents reflect the reality of how the community operates in real life.
Anyway, until that happens we will continue building what we have to build, and it will be good to finally break with the past of the old site. So, it`s important for anyone with an account on opensolaris.org to review these new documents and the other information we have posted in the Website community recently to be prepared for the changes coming in July and August. All users on the site will be affected by this multi-phase transition (hopefully in a good way, of course). More documents will be posted in the coming weeks on website feature mappings, Auth transition instructions, and content migration plans. And that`s just Phase 1 and Phase 2. There will be a Phase 3 that will take us well into the fall.
Website Transition Documentation | Auth System Beta | XWiki Website Beta | Program Roadmap
- The plan to implement the governance and website roles and collectives, and
- The data migration strategy outlining how data will be migrated from existing databases into the new Auth database.
Also, I appreciate more than ever the process I went through in the recent past attempting to re-write the OpenSolaris Constitution. Building and describing the new site would have been so much easier had that Constitution been approved in March. But it wasn`t. That`s life I suppose. So, now we have to implement the old Constitution while also accounting for things that document doesn`t even mention because it came about after the original site was designed. Not to mention all the odd stuff that evolved (and broke) on the current site -- all of which has to be migrated to the new site. As a result, in August we will have some things covered under Governance and some things covered under generally accepted practice -- and that last bit was really the basis of the concept we were trying to move toward with the proposed Constitution. Hopefully, the OGB will at some point this year take up that proposed Constitution again, get it updated, and get it approved so our Governance documents reflect the reality of how the community operates in real life.
Anyway, until that happens we will continue building what we have to build, and it will be good to finally break with the past of the old site. So, it`s important for anyone with an account on opensolaris.org to review these new documents and the other information we have posted in the Website community recently to be prepared for the changes coming in July and August. All users on the site will be affected by this multi-phase transition (hopefully in a good way, of course). More documents will be posted in the coming weeks on website feature mappings, Auth transition instructions, and content migration plans. And that`s just Phase 1 and Phase 2. There will be a Phase 3 that will take us well into the fall.
Website Transition Documentation | Auth System Beta | XWiki Website Beta | Program Roadmap
Wednesday Jun 10, 2009
We had to update Phase 1 of the website transition plan earlier this
week. Phase 1 is being rescheduled to account for some community
infrastructure requirements needed after CommunityOne and the
OpenSolaris 2009.06 product release. The next available transition
window is the end of July, so the week of July 27 is the new target
date for Phase 1.
As a result of this change, there will be no moratorium for new project creation in June as I had previously announced. Note that there will still be a moratorium between Phase 1 and Phase 2, but the window will be later and hopefully shorter. We'll know more as we get closer to the end of July.
I updated the roadmap and other transition documents in the Website community to reflect these changes, and there will be a series of email communications from Bonnie to all users on the site starting this week as well. Also, as we move from phase to phase there will be list conversations and announcements initiated by Michelle and Derek since we all own parts of this transition now. And finally, we are planning some community conference calls to answer questions live.
Website Transition Documentation | Auth System Beta | XWiki Website Beta | Program Roadmap
As a result of this change, there will be no moratorium for new project creation in June as I had previously announced. Note that there will still be a moratorium between Phase 1 and Phase 2, but the window will be later and hopefully shorter. We'll know more as we get closer to the end of July.
I updated the roadmap and other transition documents in the Website community to reflect these changes, and there will be a series of email communications from Bonnie to all users on the site starting this week as well. Also, as we move from phase to phase there will be list conversations and announcements initiated by Michelle and Derek since we all own parts of this transition now. And finally, we are planning some community conference calls to answer questions live.
Website Transition Documentation | Auth System Beta | XWiki Website Beta | Program Roadmap
"I hope that after some time we'll see OpenSolaris powered PDAs." -- Alexander Eremin
Tuesday Jun 09, 2009
This is another bit to add to the ever growing number of elements making up the OpenSolaris ecosystem here in Japan -- The Solaris Community for Business, which is a group of companies led by Sun that are involved in implementing Solaris solutions in the enterprise. I`ve always been interested in the business aspects of community building and in now these things evolve in different ways, so I`ll have to check this out more closely. The consortium runs an annual event called the Solaris Innovation Forum as well.
Now that OpenSolaris 2009.06 has been officially released, the Japan OpenSolaris community will get together on June 19th for their own launch at Sun's Jingumae office in Tokyo. Stop by.
Monday Jun 08, 2009
Really cool to see Koji Uno announce the port of OpenSolaris to the ARM platform earlier today. The OpenSolaris community in Japan continues to grow and diversify. Take a quick look and you`ll see this new ARM port joining an interesting mix of elements here in Tokyo: the Jaris distribution, the Japan and Tokyo OpenSolaris User Groups, a group of Campus Ambassadors, and some contributors of source code, binaries, and translations. Seems like a nice foundation from which to build, eh?
ARM platform port here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/osarm
All things OpenSolaris in Japan here: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/tags/jposug
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