If you haven't noticed (or don't remember), it is the 1st birthday (or 1-year anniversary) of OpenSolaris today! We've got lots going on at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/, so please check it out.

Exactly 1 year (really 364 days) after we launched the OpenSolaris project, we have 100 community code contributions integrated into OpenSolaris so far -- not counting the numerous code contributions into the active Projects and the consistent non-code contributions from just about everyone in the community! I'm excessively proud and a bit awed by it all.

I'm happy to admit it, but I was wrong. I didn't think it was reasonable to have an goal of 100 community code contributions integrated into OpenSolaris within a year. I didn't have any doubts about the abilities or willingness of the code contributors or sponsors, but I thought it was an overly ambitious goal for our first year.

I was wrong.

I've learned so much since I started working on the OpenSolaris project 2 1/2 years ago, and much of that since the launch.

For the most part, though, the OpenSolaris community has just reaffirmed what I already knew to be true: OpenSolaris has a vibrant and active community of people who are excited about participating in every way they can. There are countless examples of everyone in the community working together to get something done. It is not perfect, but it's not dysfunctional. I would love to point out specific examples, but that feels too exclusionary. You should check out the OpenSolaris Community Awards (OSCAs) Nominees, though because the community has done a good job of identifying some of the key contributors from this past year.

Looking forward to next year, the OpenSolaris engineering/program/marketing team is going to work diligently with the community to get more code released, refine development processes, make building and testing easier, initiate and continue to drive adoption and evangelize OpenSolaris, revamp the web site, and provide more tools for development. It should be an even more exciting year than this one for improving OpenSolaris as a community and source base. We look forward to everyone's help to make it happen.

P.S. For those of you local to the San Francisco Bay Area, some of us are getting together to have a drink at the Oasis Beer Garden in Menlo Park starting at 6pm today. Hope to see you there! Those of you in other areas of the world should check in with community members in your area to see if thye plan to have a local gathering. Or better yet, plan one yourself!