UNIX admin wrote On 08/15/06 22:48,:
You know what: In my region there will be in some
weeks another gathering of the free sw community with
presentations and a small booth and so on.
Here you can see:
http://www.come2linux.org/psp/veranstaltung.html
There will be not ONE talk about OpenSolaris !
Then why don't YOU make a difference? Obviously you know about OpenSolaris, or
else you wouldn't be here participating in this discussion. So schedule a
presentation -- talk to people about OpenSolaris!
Can't argue with that. :) Our community is very much in need of non-Sun
leaders across all technical areas in all regions around the world, and
we'll have this need for years to come. Which is cool. It's pure
opportunity for anyone interested. No one's there to talk about
OpenSolaris? Cool. That's a good thing. That means that the field is
wide open, and no big company is there sucking all the oxygen out of the
room. How about starting a little user group in that area?
Now the best : The local , regional SUN Microsystems
bureau is some 40 Km away from this gathering. The
people who organize this also meet in this same city
for the planning and so on.
This is what I call community supporting.
Why should talking about OpenSolaris have anything to do with Sun Microsystems,
Inc.? Technically speaking, OpenSolaris is in the domain of the OpenSolaris
community. Sun might be the biggest contributor, but that doesn't make
promoting OpenSolaris the company's responsibility.
Yes ... and this is what I've been talking about all along. Sun can't be
everywhere in all markets at all times like some of our bigger
competitors can. Also, this is not really a Sun issue. It's a community
issue. The promotion of OpenSolaris is not exclusively a Sun program;
it's a community effort that started back in the pilot program with a
few blogs. Sun marketing people participate and lead, sure, but Sun
already does a huge amount of promotion for OpenSolaris through a large
number of corporate channels. But even that will not serve all the needs
of the community long term (or even short term, actually). The *only*
way to do that is by distributing the effort among everyone in the
community.
It is people like you who should take matters into their own hands. What do you
think, how did Linux get so much traction? Exactly because his advocates
promoted it anywhere and everywhere!
Yes. This is perhaps the most valuable lesson OpenSolaris can learn from
Linux and also from other open source projects, such as Mozilla. As a
community we need to realize that although Sun started this and is
sponsoring it financially, we need to run it as a community and not as
as company-sponsored project with a community tagging along. This is
starting to happen, and the Constitution will outline it further (as
specified in the Charter). But we need to give it some time to develop.
By the way ... I see that there was some community action at LinuxWorld
in San Francisco, and I don't think Sun was that involved at all. That's
excellent. We need more of that. A lot more. And we need it all around
the world: http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=733
Jim
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