Here we go...

This is day 11 for me at Sun and the start of a great adventure. As the new OpenxVM Community Manager I am responsible for shepherding the process of taking the xVM code base open source. This includes not only the technical details of opening such a large code base but also the legal, business strategy, community development, and project evangelism aspects as well.

It has been a dream of mine for many years to work for Sun. This may sound like a cliche, but I believe in Sun's vision - "The Network is The Computer" - and their mission to make it a reality. And now I'm in the thick of it, helping to make it happen.

Things are moving fast here in the xVM group. We just released Ops Center 1.0 and already the entire team is hard at work on future releases. Clients who have previewed the product like it very much. In addition, the xVM hypervisor introduced into OpenSolaris last year is being retooled along with new management interfaces into a standalone bare-metal hypervisor known as xVM Server. These efforts will dovetail with projects such as Service Tags to create a complete virtualization stack that we refer to as xVM. And it is my job to create a viable and coherent open source community in which they can thrive.

My days are filled with planning meetings, architectural reviews, web site design, legal reviews, governance discussions, community building (both internal and external to Sun) and more phone calls than I can count. The first tangible results to the outside world will be this blog and modifications to the openxvm.org web site and openxvm project at java.net.

I am always looking for constructive advice. So if you have any ideas on how to make these communication vehicles better, let me know. You can send me email at scott dot lehman at sun dot com.

Stay tuned. There is much more to come.

Posted at 09:24PM Feb 26, 2008 by Scott Lehman in Sun  |  Comments[1]