Sunday July 20, 2008 Holistic Role
I'm in Portland, Oregon this weekend for an interesting meeting, but I'll not be able to stay on for OSCON this year because a change of my role at Sun necessitates attending a meeting in California that's a direct conflict with OSCON. It's not an especially closely-kept secret but I've now moved from Sun's software group and taken the Chief Open Source Officer role over to a newly-formed team reporting more directly to the CEO and working on Sun's relationships with communities globally.
The new team comprises some of Sun's best experts in open standards, open IPR and open source. It's called the Sun Open Technologies Practice, and in particular manages the Sun standards and open source websites. It allows us to take a more holistic approach to Sun's engagement in open standards and open source, especially in the area of influencing open standards bodies to have IPR policies that allow - or even encourage - open source implementation.
I'll let the new members of my team use their own channels to say they have joined, but suffice to say I'm excited by the challenging new opportunities this presents around the world.
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( Jul 20 2008, 10:36:16 AM PDT )
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It's been a long time coming but that's another one of the landmarks we've been aiming for. An unintentional barrier finally removed (it took a whole lot of review to do it BTW). Huge welcome to *BSD to the OpenJDK community.
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As predicted, getting OpenJDK into Debian main is the trigger for a cascade of other stones falling into place to build the foundations for a strong Java presence in GNU/Linux.
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Many eyes making all research shallow?
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( Jul 20 2008, 01:31:01 AM PDT )
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