ZFS to the max
I'm heading out to California tomorrow morning - need to get to Dublin airport for a 6:45 flight to Heathrow, followed by a 11ish connection to San Francisco. This means getting up at 4am - I can take it. By Thursday at the latest (hopefully Wed afternoon) I'll be wandering around the halls of MPK17, so say "hi" if you see me!
I'm very much looking forward to the weekend's OpenSolaris Summit and the subsequent Sun conference (no, it's not CEC - though I wonder how I could wrangle myself into getting there next year, sounds like fun!) Along with meeting lots of OpenSolaris people, who I've only known from email so far and have never met in person (_ ok, with a few exceptions _), one of my tasks for the weekend, is moderating the "ZFS to the max" discussions on Sunday, which started here, wandered happily along, and so far have made it as far as hereish.
With Indiana, we've got a huge opportunity to push ZFS as the default filesystem on a new operating system distribution and show the world how things could be - I really hope we'll have the courage to do so, and take best advantage of the capabilities it offers. That said, I'm all ears about what other weird and wonderful things ZFS could let us do on a developer-oriented distribution of OpenSolaris. Let's really go for it and see what happens!
As a side note, I'm also going to be at the mercy of the sat-nav system I got recently - here's hoping those maps are up to date. If you don't see me in Santa Cruz, then you know why :-)
hi Tim:
I am a student from Taiwan. May I ask some questions? Have you ever seen other members who write open source? If I want to study open source area, I'll release some questionary for developer. Do they want to fill questionary on https://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/#all
sorry, I write here unexpectedly and my English is not good. ><""
Please forgive me.^^
Posted by magicmidy on October 12, 2007 at 02:01 PM IST #
No problem magicmidy - just send me email ( first.last@sun.com ) and I'll see if I can answer your questions.
Posted by Tim Foster on October 20, 2007 at 05:51 PM IST #
I can't email to you successfully.
Excuse me!
Hi Tim:
I am a graduate student from Taiwan, and recently I am interested in knowledege sharing and open source development. However, I never joined in open source project and I don't know how it works successfully.
Do you think that regular meeting is important for open source development?
Besides, I maybe ask developers to fill the questionnaire after half year. Now, I l use mail-list to connect developers. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/2007-October/author.html#start
However, few people reply. Do you have any other way to release survey for developer?
Thank you very much ^^
Regards,
Midy
Posted by Midy on October 24, 2007 at 05:47 AM IST #
It's always going to be difficult to get people to fill in a survey - all you can do is hope to send out enough that you get a good number of replies.
To answer your question, yes I think face to face meetings are good for open source development. Between face to face meetings, developers should be chatting via instant messaging, which also helps - email is good too.
Posted by Tim Foster on October 24, 2007 at 10:47 AM IST #
This is a wonderful thing!
To my knowledge Mac OS/X anyway has already begun the way...
Posted by Steve on December 04, 2007 at 08:07 PM GMT #