Read more about our winners and other nominees below.
Matt Ahrens
Erast Benson
Chandan BN
Jeff Bonwick
Jon Bowman
Bryan Cantrill
Derek Cicero
Dennis Clarke
Alan Coopersmith
Bonnie Corwin
James Dickens
Alan DuBoff
Danek Duvall
Sam Falkner
Tim Foster
Moinak Ghosh
Teresa Giacomini
Brendan Gregg
Jim Grisanzio
Joey Guo
Stephen Hahn
Rainer Heilke
Glenn Herteg
Frank Hofmann
Sarah Jelinek
Jurgen Keil
Mike Kupfer
Stephen Lau
Adam Leventhal
Rich Lowe
Robert Milkowski
Dave Miner
Masayuki Murayama
Michelle Olsen
Rainer Orth
Cyril Plisko
Stephen Potter
Sumitha Prashanth
Liane Praza
Karyn Ritter
Ben Rockwood
Joerg Schilling
Eric Schrock
Greg Shaw
Lisa Week
Keith Weslowski
Ginnie Wray
Chen Xiangqun
Xiang Yong
In order that they were received
blogs, documentation, sysadmin work for genunix, and the list goes on and on….
blastwave.org, running the ppc port of Solaris, blogs,
demos, screenshots and the list goes on and on
DTrace, responses to users questions on the DTrace email list, supporting extensions to dtrace
blogs, helping new users both in #opensolaris on irc, email lists, blogging, charts comparing Solaris technologies vs other open source technologies, RFE's and Bug submissions
Schillix, responses to mailing list stuff, RFE's, being a total pain in the butt to deal with when it comes to technical issues
DTrace, supporting issues new users have on mailing lists
web admin for all of opensolaris.org and dealing with all user issues that entails
has been a tireless worker. Yes, he can be a squeeky wheel, but he does deserve the grease.
…of Sun Microsystems for his stellar work on the Belenix Project.
Moinak has shepherded the project well, is very, very helpful on the
list and in person, encourages all new comers to participate.
He is a respected member of the Bangalore Open Solaris User Group, and
in the Belenix community.
I feel he should receive the award for his good work in the Open
Solaris community in general, and for his work on Belenix in
particular.
for being a great asset to the community and doing
an awful lot of work behind the scenes.
for beating zfs to a pulp so I don't have to.
for bringing the install consolidation out of the
shadows. (And putting up with me.)
for his work on the DTraceToolkit. The DTrace Toolkit has helped numerous SysAdmin's come up to speed on DTrace, and has been the subject of numerous technical articles. Brendan spent a good deal of time writing this, and deserves to be honored for his exceptional work.
his blog is(was) full of great information about
opensolaris and solaris in general, he is one of the guys behind
genunix and a lot more, i still wonder if his day has only 24 hours
i can only hope he keep up the good work when he moves
to japan, he's been key in the evangelization of opensolaris
he just loves opensolaris, probably more than all the rest of us
A number of years ago, 10?, I was trying to get Solaris 2.5.1 to run
multiple Lotus Notes servers in a cluster on a SPARC Center 2000E as well as
on some Compaq Proliant 5000 servers. I joined a newsgroup called
comp.unix.solaris. I asked questions and I got answers. A guy named Rich
Teer was a regular and I sa w a LOT of traffic from him. He was some sort
guru that just knew stuff. Lots of stuff.
Over time we got to a point where we were chatting on the phone for hours.
He has a sharp wit, a kind heart and and great mind. He has done more for
the Solaris community over the last decade than anyone I know and he never
asks for much. If I am a "squeaky wheel" then Rich is clearly the silent
runner who has always been there for years and years and for tons of people
when they needed help.
For the precise and profound input on various important issues of OS,
both technical and non-technical.
For the amount of time/help/information he gives on various lists.
For the amount of time/help/information they give on DTrace.
For excellent techinical contribution and help on various forums.
For their excellent technical work on distributions
For fulfiling the leader role and taking standard on important issues.
For evangelism and contribution to docs etc. projects.
Jorg Schilling has been a realistic voice in the OpenSolaris community, he is not afraid to confront the issues head on and in this he provides some form of leadership whether or not we agree with his direction. Jorg has led the way with his own OpenSolaris distribution and also provided support to the CDDL license by releasing his own work under the license.
Although written communication in english is not exactly Jorg's strongest point he provides assistance to many newcomers on the opensolaris-discuss list and more in-depth conversations on other projects. Although putbacks and code contributions so far have been fairly limited I have noticed Jorgs name come up as being tied to 3 or four so far.
Overall I am thankful to have someone as talented as Jorg as part of the OpenSolaris community.
I'll second that !
And he is a boat rocker and we need talented boat rockers in any successful
project.
Contrary to what Dennis Clarke said about Rich Teer ("sharp wit, a kind heart and and great mind" – all untrue ;-) ) my first nomination still goes to Rich for being a Solaris stalwart for many years, and continuing this undertaking on thru OpenSolaris.
for suffering all the early pain of bringing the community together, and managing to keep it on a tight enough leash without throttling it in the slightest. Jim's ability to cut through the warble and come out with just the right level of succinctness is utterly invaluable also.
'nuff said!
for putting together frkit
for Blastwave.org
for his behind the scenes work
for setting up genunix.org
for his numerous code contributions
for his many helpful Usenet posts
As a total Solaris outsider who otherwise would have had no business whatsoever outside the comfortable confines of Windows/Linux, I would nominate Jörg Schilling, for lighting up the word "Open" before "Solaris".
Lisa has worked tirelessly to form and run the Colorado Front Range OpenSolaris Users Group (FROSUG), despite making significant contributions to the NFS community through her day job.
Lisa has brought in many excellent speakers from the community to get the word out. She's also organized installfests to get people on board, not just informed.
Additionally, she's hooked this UG up with other local users groups to connect the dots and grow the community.
Stephen is the Global Solaris Product Manager for JPMorgan Chase. The very
nature of his job is to evangelize Solaris. Steve has been a tireless and
driving force within the Solaris community at JPMorgan, and in the Solaris
community at large. As one of the Banks primary Subject Matter Experts on
Solaris, Steves' drive for standards and best practices permeates
throughout the UNIX Infrastructure environment. The Solaris community at
large would be the less without his presence and contributions.
While not only the Solaris Product Manager for JPMorgan, and just
completing his Masters Degree, Steve is also on the Board of Directors of
LOPSA (League of Professional Systems Administrators), has presented an
Open Solaris talk at the Columbus Linux Users Group (COLUG) and finds the
time to be an Open Solaris Contributor with multiple code putbacks.
The man deserves an award just for having to be my manager for a year.
I'm honored to count Steve as a co-worker, mentor, and friend.
I would like to nominate Moinak Ghosh for his outstanding work on
the BeleniX distribution and related OpenSolaris work. I have been
interacting with the BeleniX team closely from the time Moinak
launched the project and am still amazed at the level of energy and
enthusiasm he puts into it. Starting from the initial version which
had a minimal desktop and booted quite slowly to the latest version
which boots in under 2 minutes and has a complete KDE desktop
bundled into a single CD, it has been an amazing journey!
Moinak is a quiet worker and a lot of his work sometimes goes
unnoticed. I would like to fix that!
I would like to nominate Barbara Corwin, Karyn Ritter & James Grisanzio for all the efforts they have put it to make opensolaris a success.
Barbara (Bonnie) has been involved right from the time the code sweep for ON source started. They have provided all the framework for making the life of all the external contributor very easy. The website is uptodate with the current status of all the contributions. It also has very detailed documentation for Sponsors, Contributors and visitors.
I know all this from the minimal interaction. So, I believe their efforts are much more than just this.
Moinak's work on Belenix is well known. His efforts and enthusiam is everlasting. He has also been involved in making a host of applications available (players, games, utilities, etc) for x86/x64 based systems.
Sumitha has been very enthusiastic about evangelising Solaris. She is co-ordinating with marketing and engineering and arranging talks and demos for our customers. She co-ordinated FOSS.in (http://foss.in/2005/) event in Bangalore and the VTU Edusat presentation session (http://elearning.vtu.ac.in/edusat_bde.htm) that was broadcasted over sattelite across all engineering colleges in Karnataka. She is also evangelising Solaris in Universities and Colleges in other parts of India.
For his contribution to IPFilter documentation and feedback on IPFilter code implementation.
For his leadership and contributions to the Documentation Community including the wiki, Subversion repository, and migration documentation.
For his leadership of the Documentation Community and contributions to the Documentation Style Guidelines and Big Doc List pages.
For his great efforts with the acadmic community in China. 19 universities in China have committed to using OpenSolaris in their academic curriculum next year: sewing the seeds for the project for many years to come.
For his great work in producing various different ISOs of distros and code, fulfilling a big need. And his incredible patience and good nature!
For the very successful "Introduction to Operating Systems: a hands on approach using the OpenSolaris project", produced in double-quick time.
For his contribution of OpenGrok to the community. Chandan has also contributed a lot of his time and talent to provide us with the very cool graphical icons on OpenSolaris.org. Thanks Chandan.
He presented three very interesting and deep technical presentation at CZOSUG (see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/osusergroups/czosug/ ).
He also contributed "Crashdump Analysis/x86 OS Internals" book to the document community.
I would like to nominate Jörg Schilling for his outstanding efforts on behalf of the Solaris and OpenSolaris communities. Jörg has contributed a significant amount of work through his efforts to get star and cdrecord-tools placed under the CDDL, as well as his work on Schillix. In addition, Jörg has gone above and beyond basic expectations in his efforts to help others with issues that relate to Solaris.
Eric is one of the of many Solaris Kernel engineers who've completely
embraced the OpenSolaris development process, worked hard with the
community to help them understand the OpenSolaris code & ideals and have
been a great example to other engineers within Sun on how to do
development "outside SWAN". Without Sun engineers like Eric & the rest
of the kernel guys, who were willing to change the way they worked,
OpenSolaris would have fallen flat on it's face. I'd like to nominate
the Solaris ON developers inc. Eric Schrock for an OpenSolaris
Contributor award.
As a stalwart of the OpenSolaris community, the work Jim's been doing
publicly has been highly visible though his blog : ever enthusiastic,
and always positive. I suspect that in the months leading up to Opening
Day, Jim was also hard at work behind the scenes, evangelising within
Sun, and getting everybody thinking the Right Way. For these reasons,
and for being one of the many who helped OpenSolaris get out the door, I
believe Jim deserves an OpenSolaris Contributor award.
Richard Lowe has offered 33 code contributions since November 2005 and
a staggering 23 of them have been integrated so far.
Juergen Keil has also offered 33 code contributions — the first one
just 2 months after we launched. He is close behind Richard with 21 of
his contributions having been integrated to date.
Rainer Orth submitted his first code contribution a mere 2 months ago,
and he is already the third largest contributor with 27 to date.
Cyril Plisko was the very first community member to offer a code
contribution, and it was the first contribution to be integrated.
Since then he has contributed to the community as a whole in many
different ways.
Sarah Jelinek has not only sponsored more community code contributions
than anyone else (10 total), she has integrated 9 of them into
OpenSolaris.
Dave Miner is close on Sarah's heels for both numbers: he's sponsored
9 contributions and integrated 8 of them.
for Schillix
blastwave.org
for his contributions on various NIC drivers and the on-going effort to incorporate it into OpenSolaris.
for his always insightful thoughts on open source
development and community building, for help in driving these efforts
across Sun and for helping to defuse, in language the layperson can
understand, many of the myths surrounding the Common Development and
Distribution License (CDDL).
for leadership in the OpenSolaris Documentation
community including the production of many critical documentation
components such as the initial instructor's guide to OpenSolaris.
for driving, as the OpenSolaris technical lead, a number
of proposals including the OpenSolaris charter, the start of a draft
constitution and perhaps most importantly, the generation of the
requirements for the distributed source code management system (SCM) as
well driving the evaluation and eventual selection.
for his support of OpenSolaris and ZFS through
blogs, discussions and the Irish OpenSolaris user group meetings.
for her continued support and commitment to the
Front Range OpenSolaris User Group (FROSUG)
for her continued support and commitment to the FROSUG.
for his continued support and commitment to the FROSUG.
for his continued support and commitment to the FROSUG.
for making zfs-discuss one of the most active and successful discussion lists.
for his numerous technical emails across many OpenSolaris
discussion lists.
for his numerous technical emails on zfs-discuss and other
OpenSolaris discussion lists.
For initial work as leader in the Docs community and then for later work as founder of the FROSUG.
for being one of the most prolific contributors, having a great attitude, being eager to help work on problems, and just overall being a great guy to work with.
for having far more patience than I would if I were him… and dealing with my infinitely never-ending gate questions.
for SMF. SMF is one of the greatest contributions to Solaris …
For always running the very latest in production.
For his highly technical contributions.
OSol is about the community, not just the code. Without a message, no one hears about the community, and no one contributes to the code. Both Sara and Laura have been tireless in their efforts to help spread the word and to make it easier for the rest of us to spread the word as well. Sara has been amazing at accepting input and suggestions from the rest of the community and we are all much better off because of her work.
I was drafting up the exact same idea and concept for both Sara Dornsife and
Laura Ramsey
I don't think that James really ever sleeps and he has helped me and a lot
of other people out of a jam at 4AM in the morning. He has extensive
knowledge in the area of Solaris and he is a boat rocker also. We need
voices like James to get the message out there also.
These two professors have led a team of professors from universities throughout China to develop a comprehensive set of materials for an operating systems course using Solaris and OpenSolaris as an example. There materials are already available at opentech.org.cn and will be available on opensolaris.org in the very near future. They can be used throughout the world and are a great asset to professors and students who are interested in teaching and learning about Solaris.
For the development of Introduction to Operating Systems: A Hands-On Approach Using the OpenSolaris Project and for her efforts within the Docs community and beyond.
for his excellent blog at cuddletech.com.
The howtos, reviews, gossip and rants there have given people like me (experienced sysadmins who haven't had much exposure to *solaris) a great leg up.
Spread a cross the country, but with a singular mission. These three are professional, efficient, and work hard to get out the good news whenever and where ever there is an opportunity. Not to mention being extremely helpful and easy to work with.
If the community had a father figure, it'd be Jim. Both in front of and behind the scenes Jim is constantly working to hold this project together. Through thick and thin, Jim's been there pushing things forward from the beginning well beyond the call of duty.
Asking someone who's not involved in the community to help create it is difficult. Roy has taken on a lot and we're greatly indebted to him for his contribution.
Professional, insightful, and helpful contribution at every step, on the lists, in the communities, and behind the scenes things that no one ever sees. Both Keith and Stephen provide insight that smooths over some areas that would otherwise be gapping holes in the organization.
She's as passionate as I am. She really pours herself into her work and has worked long hours and put a lot of love and sweat into the docs community. She's not only had to do her job but define it in a changing environment.
We've got dozens of OpenSolaris User Groups around the globe, thanks to Alan plowing the road. Before OpenSolaris was even fully released the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris Users Group was formed and meeting regularly. To this day the SVOSUG is one of the most informative and pertinent user groups in the world.
Mike and Steven both are the hands working away at things that keep the community afloat, including cutting releases, attending trade shows and events, and helping anywhere they can. When you grab the latest code bundle, think of Mike and Steve.
SchilliX was the first. He slaved at the release to get it ready and worked through a lot of barriers to get it out the door.