Got back to my Broomfield office today, after two weeks in California, and was touched and amused to find that someone had appended a note to the hand-scrawled nameplate on my office (Diana’s been out for a while and hasn’t got around to printing me an official one):
It’s nice to feel appreciated! (No, I don’t know who wrote it.)
After the general party at Moscone Center (footage to come), there was a somewhat smaller party at a nearby bar/restaurant.
We had quite a bit to celebrate – and quite a bit to celebrate it with (above)!
A number of cool non-Sun people were present, including ^ Jay Edwards (one of the handful of engineers who runs one of my favorite online services, Twitter). I had to have a photo taken with him, to impress all my Italian twithead friends.
^ Jesse Silver, who had done such a fantastic job organizing the Developers’ Summit, and Silona Bonewald, whom I’ll be seeing more of at next week’s Grid & Cluster conference. Silona is wearing our trendy green and blue opensolaris wristbands.
^ Jim Huges unites opensolaris (temporary tattoo logo on his forehead) with MySQL’s dolphin mascot. Hey, I didn’t get one of those! (Nor did I get one of the very cool “Build your community” t-shirts from CommunityOne, wah! But I do have two different opensolaris t-shirts.)
Jeff Bonwick and Jim play an intense game of pool.
I’m attending the OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit, held in Santa Cruz, CA, May 3-4, 2008. I’ve been working with and participating in various online communities for a long time, but I’m new to this one, and have a lot to learn about the people, technologies, history, present realities, and possible futures. This weekend is an excellent opportunity to start filling in some of those gaps.
^ top: Tim Cramer and Jim Walker
Continue reading The OpenSolaris Developers’ SummitAfter a busy weekend at the OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit in Santa Cruz, Lynn, Jeff, and I drove up California’s gorgeous Highway 1 to San Francisco to attend CommunityOne.
The keynote session was kicked off by Ian Murdock, who talked about open source, with help from Jonathan and illustrations from Hugh McLeod.
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This was all by way of introducing opensolaris 2008.05.
Rich Green, Jim Hughes, and Jeff Bonwick went all Wile E. Coyote on some disk drives to prove the resilience of the ZFS file system (note the name on the anvil).
I spent most of the afternoon filming sessions (footage which will be publicly available as soon as I have time to edit it) and then… it was time to party!
We now know that there are four owlets this year. I’m told this is well beyond the two-baby norm for Great Horned Owls, but the Broomfield owl pair are experienced parents who also have a good food source nearby: a colony of prairie dogs out at the Rocky Mountain Metropolitain Airport.
The two above are checking out an empty engineering office in BRM05. Sorry, kids – it’s already been promised to somebody as part of the Broomfield re-stack.
