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March 2007 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter
Overview
Mach was a massive month for website registration growth, web forum
conversations growth, the election of the new governing board, and the
ratification of the community constitution. It was certainly one of the
most active months in the history of OpenSolaris.
Quote of the Month
"For the target market, we believe Sun has done a fine job of making
itself pertinent again to a market segment that a few scant years past
would have likely dismissed the notion of Solaris and Sun altogether."
-- New
OpenSolaris distribution for developers, The Register, 3/9/07.
News Summaries
- Although Sun started to distribute the OpenSolaris Starter
Kit in late February, March brought brought thousands of
orders and new registrations. By the end of March, there were about
41,000 people registered on opensolaris.org -- which represents a
doubling of the total registrations on the site in just one month.
- March was also a big month for traffic to the 188 OpenSolaris
Jive
discussion forums (access the forums here or here). The community
broke four
records for total web views (1,718,699), unique visitors
(1,530,201),
threads (2,104), and messages (8,243). For more data on the OpenSolaris
Community, see the community
metrics page from Patrick Finch in the Marketing Community.
- The OpenSolaris Community went to the polls in March and elected
a new OpenSolaris Governing Board.
Eighteen candidates ran for seven seats. Congratulations to the new
board members: James
Carlson, Alan Coopersmith, Casper Dik, Glynn Foster, Stephen Lau,
Rich Teer, and Keith M Wesolowski. Also, a word of thanks to
the original
CAB/OGB that
created the OpenSolaris Charter and Constitution in the first
place: Casper Dik, Roy Fielding, Al Hopper, Simon Phipps, and Rich
Teer, and also to the governance working group members, Stephen Hahn,
Keith Wesolowski, and Ben Rockwood. Part of the election process
this month involved the ratification
of the OpenSolaris Constitution and a test poll ranking the
community's priorities. The new OGB will have regular meetings,
publishes
minutes, and holds open conversations on their new list, ogb-discuss (subscribe
to the list and view/post
via the web forum).
- Ian
Murdock, the founder of Debian, joined Sun's Solaris organization
in late March.
- Glynn Foster
published his weekly news updates: March
4, March
12, March
19, March
26. And Eric
Boutilier published his list activity reports: full archive on
del.icio.us. Both Glynn's and Eric's publications offer a unique
look into activity within the OpenSolaris Community.
Conferences
- OpenSolaris
Day at Tech Days, Kuala Lumpur was held on March 6th with 123
attendees. There was a lot of discussion around licensing, community
activities, and the system
giveaway. For more information and presentations, go to the Kuala
Lumpur events
page.
- OpenSolaris
Day at Tech Days, London was held on March 13th. This event
was
held at the beautiful Central Hall Westminster. This
agenda had a new session that Simon Phipps presented, "The Zen of
Free". For more information and presentations, go to the London events
page.
- OpenSolaris
Day at Tech Days, Paris was held on March 19th at the Espace Grande
Arche. The welcome session started with approximately 80 people
and
finished up the day with a community presentation from Ken Tomlinson
and Bruno Bonfils. For information and presentations, go to the
Paris events
page.
- OpenSolaris also participated in the China Software Innovation
Summit in Beijing. Conference presentations and photos can be found here
and here.
User Groups
There were about a dozen user
group meetings in March. The Irish
OpenSolaris User Group held their 7th meeting with Tim Foster
presenting " An
Introduction on OpenSolaris" and Fintan Ryan talking about
building, installing, and BFUing. The Front
Range OpenSolaris User Group also met in March to hear about
"Sharsmgr" from Doug McCallum. And the CZOSUG
meeting was based on Moinak Ghosh's & Vineeth Pillai's visit in
Prague. Moinak presented his favorite topic -- Livemedia and Vineeth
continued with presentation about BrandZ.
New Projects and Communities
New projects continue to open on OpenSolaris with
eight coming online in
March:
And 10 new projects were proposed: Fault Management Event
Registry, Java kstats; Summer of Code, User Mode Driver, NFSv4
namespace extension; Mozilla DTrace
project, NFS Server in Local Zones, Kernel Sockets, Pluggable Sockets,
and Next Generation Webstack. Currently, there are 81projects on
OpenSolaris with another 30 or so in the planning stages.
Technical Status
Website
- Entries in the category drop-down re-done to show the true
Bugster
product/category (solaris/c++) with plan text description information
next to each one (e.g., solaris/c++ (Solaris Libraries)).
- State field has plain text description next to it (e.g., State:
5-Cause Known (Bug is root caused)).
- Responsible Engineer field displays multi-part names correctly.
Contributions to Consolidation Code
- There was one code contribution put back into OpenSolaris in
March, bringing the total to 151.
- Thanks to Rich Lowe for the ON bug fix. And thanks to the ON Sun
engineer Steve Lau for sponsoring the code through to putback.
- You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the
bugs fixed in the code
contributor report
March's Newsletter Contributors
Editor: Linda Bernal
Contributors: Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Jim
Grisanzio, Linda Bernal
How to Contribute: The OpenSolaris Newsletter is a
community effort, and all community members are welcome to participate.
Simply send news items to program-team
mail list.
The editor will keep track of contributions and list the names of
participants in each issue. Also, the editorial team is always looking
for
feedback on the content and format of the newsletter, so please feel
free to suggest changes.
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