Monday Jun 26, 2006

OpenSolaris Anniversary Blogs

I read some really nice OpenSolaris anniversary blogs today ....

Striding Out
"I feel privileged to have been allowed to be a part of it." -- Peter Tribble

OpenSolaris Birthday Festivities
Dan Price outlines a couple of dozen or so OpenSolaris anniversary blogs on day one. Dan did the organizing of this year's anniversary blog event, as well.

Happy 1st. B-Day OpenSolaris
"Who would of thought that OpenSolaris would of done half of what is listed below. Not me and I was on the OpenSolaris Pilot project that started over 18 months ago." -- James Dickens

OpenSolaris - JFDI
"We've shown this year, that what we can do together is really something incredible." -- Tim Foster

365 days of OpenSolaris uptime
"I am very proud to be part of it." -- Cyril Plisko

Happy Birthday OpenSolaris Docs!
"'Wish we could have a screen shot of what the docs community looked like on June 14, 2005 and compare it to what you see today. What a world of a difference!" -- Sue Weber

The Butterfly Effect Revisited
"What a difference a year makes ..." -- Dan Price

one year down….
Steve comments on SCM for OpenSolaris. This is the critical next step for the project.

OpenSolaris: first anniversary
Time flies!

OpenSolaris is 1
"What a daring thing to do - take a company's primo software product, Solaris OS, and make it free and open source!" -- Richard Friedman

Happy 1st birthday, OpenSolaris!
A nice summary of the year from a guy who was there from the very beginning: Rich Teer.

Open Solaris Anniversary
"A quick glance at the stats shows Open Solaris already is a success with more people interested than everyone thought. I think that Open Solaris after one year is far ahead of that we all expected it to be, which is very good." -- Robert Milkowski

The First Birthday
"There's a lot of one year olds that can barely walk or articulate, and for an evolving open source community, OpenSolaris is doing just peachy. Happy birthday dude." -- Glynn Foster

Happy Birthday to OpenSolaris!
"To me part of OpenSolaris is all about acknowledging and growing the community on Solaris for x86 (and now x64)." -- Matt Ingenthron

Happy Birthday OpenSolaris!
1 year after we launched OpenSolaris, we have 100 community code contributions integrated. I'm excessively proud and a bit awed by it all." -- Karyn Ritter

Happy Anniversary OpenSolaris
"I'd like to thank everyone who aided in my recovery, got involved this year, offered suggestions, input, disagreements and passion - and taught me how to do open source marketing." -- Sara Dornsife

OpenSolaris: on one year
"It's been just as gratifying to see the changes in the community-wide conversations, as the formerly-Solaris-only jargon evolves into a wider community idiom that we all share. " -- Stephen Hahn

OpenSolaris turns 1
"A grateful thanks to all those who have been patient with me this past year. In particular, jmcp, dclarke, dan mick, eric saxe and dan price. Thanks! :)" -- Jeremy Teo

Happy Birthday OpenSolaris
"It is amazing to think it's already been one year since we launched OpenSolaris." -- Jamie Foley

What makes it great
"With the launch of OpenSolaris, the proverbial curtain was thrown back, and communication and collaboration between Solaris engineers and users/customers took on a new meaning (sky-rocketed is more like it). -- Eric Boutilier

OpenSolaris: The First Year
"So it has been 1 year since Sun did the unthinkable, opened Solaris. Make no mistake, this was a significant event for our industry." -- Bill Rushmore

In My Reflecting Pool
"A year ago today, the realization of something that many of us at Sun had pushed and wished for finally came true -- the open sourcing of the Solaris source code and the creation of the OpenSolaris Project." -- David Comay

One Year of OpenSolaris and X
Alan Coopersmith reviews X and OpenSolaris this year.

Happy First Birthday OpenSolaris
"This is a thriving community and I feel honoured to be a part of it." -- Alan Hargreaves

OpenSolaris Turns 1: A Year in Review
"From me to everyone, from Jonathan down to the trolls on Slashdot, thanks for helping make this a great year and lets look forward to some truly great things in the year ahead!" -- Ben Rockwood

Sun Birthday Cluster
"The result of all our hard work to integrate GNOME 2.14 into OpenSolaris just before Christmas is that for the first time in quite a while, I can generally use my Solaris desktop box all day every day to do my job." -- Calum Benson

Happy First Birthday OpenSolaris
"My contributions to the OpenSolaris project have been a labor of love, and I look forward to contributing more over the years to come." -- Shawn Walker

Secure by default
"The whole thing is about making Solaris install in a mode that is secure out of the box. This should be a no brainer, but since Solaris always strive to be backward compatible it is not easy doing a change like this." -- Martin Englund

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OPENSOLARIS
Joey Guo summarizes the absolutely outstanding year they have with OpenSolaris in China.

OpenSolaris flogs it's first birthday candle!
"It is now 1 year from the day Sun first announced OpenSolaris, and it's certainly come quite a ways in the first year." -- Alan DuBoff

The Alethiometer
"Winning the SIIA Codie Award for best open source solution. Our traction with universities have blown me away as well. Thirty-two universities are using OpenSolaris in their curriculum. Five are Centers of Excellence." -- Stephen Harpster

OpenSolaris - 1 year of opening Sun development
"I think the most important direct effect is that users and customers now ask direct questions about how something works and developers can explain them exactly what is going on. " -- Alexander Kolbasov

OpenSolaris... 1 year on
"I've noticed a real difference in the way discussions now happen inside Sun, and it's a fantastic thing.... kinda like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.There's been a visible crossover from discussions held in public." -- James C. McPherson

Birthday Gifts
"The best birthday gift an open source community can receive are code contributions and OpenSolaris has a mound of them - delightful." -- Simon Phipps

Livin' on the edge
"OpenSolaris has built a community which crosses organizational boundaries, and as such it has torn down the barriers to open communication." -- Eric Lowe

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Apologies to those I missed ... it's getting late.

Jun 26, 2006

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Wednesday Jun 21, 2006

53 Weeks of Conversations

Here are 53 weeks of conversations on the Jive forums on opensolaris.org -- total views and unique visitors.

I realize that website numbers are sometimes difficult to measure accurately, so I don't take these numbers as absolute. However, I think they do provide value when looking at long term trends. It's nice to see that we had a big week last week (our first anniversary) and that we continue to reach new people with new conversations.

OpenSolaris Conversations

Jun 21, 2006

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Thursday Jun 15, 2006

OpenSolaris Anniversary Beers


Having a few beers after the OpenSolaris anniversary tonight ....

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Jun 15, 2006

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Derek and Dan

I finally got an image of Derek Cicero -- the brains behind the OpenSolaris website for the last couple of years. That's Dan Price standing over his shoulder. Derek, Dan, and Sara worked their butts off on the site for the anniversary. Really good guys to work with, too.


Jun 15, 2006

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OpenSolaris at One


Congratulations to the OpenSolaris community! We're one!

Our first year is behind us now, but it was a year filled with accomplishments (here, here) -- many of which no one could have foreseen and very few had predicted.

After the release of OpenSolaris last year, communities, projects, and user groups formed consistently on opensolaris.org and around the world, while at the same time Sun continued releasing code. A lot of code. In fact, there were sixteen additional releases of code over a seven month period last year:
  1. JDS Consolidation: 10/28/05
  2. DevPro Consolidation: 11/10/05: SCCS, make (binaries)
  3. OpenGrok Project: 11/15/05
  4. ZFS Project: 11/16/05: integrated into ON build 27
  5. BrandZ Project: 12/13/05
  6. JDS Consolidation: 12/23/05
  7. Network Storage Consolidation: 1/27/06
  8. DevPro Consolidation: 2/22/06: libm
  9. DevPro Consolidation: 2/28/06: libmtsk (binaries)
  10. Install Consolidation: 3/6/06: packaging tools
  11. SFW Consolidation: 3/28/06
  12. Documentation Consolidation: 3/31/06: 2 manuals
  13. X Window System Consolidation: 3/31/06:
  14. Globalization Consolidation 5/12/06
  15. Documentation Consolidation: 5/31/06: 2 manuals
  16. DevPro Consolidation: 6/12/06: C version mediaLib
Not bad. That makes 9 consolidations from Solaris that have been opened so far. And there are still more releases planned for this year.

Also, we've had thousands of conversations on our forums that have reached millions of people around the world. Ok, there were a few flame wars tossed in there, but that made it all the more interesting. We welcomed code contributions from two dozen community members totaling 100 putbacks -- a number that is absolutely exceptional. We discussed and wrote a development process that will help ensure technical quality on the project. After an open evaluation process, we selected a source code management system and will implement it this year. We wrote a Charter enfranchising the community, and we are writing a merit-based Constitution so we can truly run the community as a community. We are doing interesting new things with the code, such as creating distributions and porting the technology to new platforms (here, here, here, here). And OpenSolaris is being taught in dozens of the leading computer science institutions around the world. The list goes on, but that's quite a year, wouldn't you say?

We should be proud of all these accomplishments, but humble as well. There remains a great deal of technical work and community building ahead of us, and this will be our challenge for next year.

Today, as we celebrate our first year, community members are blogging about their experiences with OpenSolaris and talking on IRC and in the OpenSolaris forums. Others are being recognized for their valuable contributions to the project in the community's First Annual OpenSolaris Contributor Awards .

The OpenSolaris source code may be what we talk about and work on, but communities at their heart are about people who are passionate and who are moved to action. And for me, that's what we are really celebrating today. Our community.

OpenSolaris is by far the most successful project I've been associated with in about a decade. It offers many opportunities for many people, which I think demonstrates very nicely the open community model we are trying to build. For that I'm not only proud, but thankful.

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Jun 15, 2006

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Wednesday Jun 14, 2006

OpenSolaris Reminders

Check out Patrick's updated metrics -- OpenSolaris First Anniversary Highlights June 14, 2006. He's got two new charts -- one for user groups and one showing when all the communities, projects, and distributions opened this year. Really nice stuff. I'm surely going to rip off some of his graphics and put them in my preso. And don't forget ... Dan is putting together a blog and IRC gathering for tomorrow. Also, take a peek at the first annual OpenSolaris Contributor Awards. It's really fascinating to see what people have done all year around here. And here's a quick roll up for some community accomplishments, too. If you are in Silicon Valley, stop by and say hi tomorrow.

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Jun 14, 2006

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The Solaris Ethos

Here's a piece with many excellent quotes from Peter Tribble and James Eagleton -- OpenSolaris one year on: Success or failure? Peter's last quote is most important: "The project has -- in my view anyway -- been extremely successful in keeping to the original Solaris ethos while developing a strong OpenSolaris community." That is exactly the balance we were shooting for while planning all this a few years ago. In fact during the pre-pilot feedback sessions with customers and developers, this was a common theme running through those conversations.

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Jun 14, 2006

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Friday May 12, 2006

An OpenSolaris Banner Ad

For about a week now, Sara Dornsife in OpenSolaris marketing has been leading a conversation on opensolaris-mktg@opensolaris.org list (and a few other lists, too) to plan the OpenSolaris anniversary activities. And this morning, she held the first weekly conference call -- which was open to all. Part of all this is an interesting discussion about an OpenSolaris community banner ad for the anniversary, an ad that will live on sun.com. Moazam Raja has put the latest suggestions up for a vote. So, vote for your favorite or join the conversation and offer some suggestions. I can't remember a time when Sun marketing has held open calls to engage the community in an open process to create an ad. Can you? Pretty wild.

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May 12, 2006

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Saturday May 06, 2006

51:51

As usual, I sent a mail out this week with the latest code contributions -- 1 new request-sponsor putback: 51 total. Sometimes it's one putback, sometimes it's five or six. I enjoy sending these messages out because it gives me a chance to personally thank the contributors and the sponsors. This is a big deal for me ... this process of contributing to a community effort -- no matter what the contribution happens to be. Bonnie really follows the code contributions and works that program much more closely than I do at this point, though.

Anyway, I've been focusing my attention on the number of putbacks because it's starting to get right up there for our first year in business -- especially considering the lack of infrastructure for this sort of thing (which is coming, of course). But when I sent out this particular mail I was surprised that the number of fixes in the works is also 51. Where the hell did that come from? I haven't been paying good enough attention lately. It's been steadily climbing because we're steadily making progress -- despite some somewhat awkward tools. We all do some much every day around here that sometimes we have to stop and recognize just how far we've come. I still remember sitting in a meeting a couple of years ago when someone asked: "So, how much code do you think we'll get in the first year?" The room went quiet. We all shrugged. We had no clue -- even the smart ones. So, these code contribution numbers are really great to see in our first year. So, I wonder how many we'll end up with by anniversary time: June 14, 2006? I still have no clue ...

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May 06, 2006

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Wednesday May 03, 2006

Almost One

Here is marketing's suggested t-shirt artwork for the OpenSolaris one year anniversary -- which is coming up on June 14, 2006. I like it. Do you? Sara Dornsife just sent it out to some of the OpenSolaris lists along with a long mail outlining some ideas for our first community anniversary. Conversation on this is more than welcome ....

OpenSolaris One Year Anniversary T-Shirt

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May 03, 2006

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