Norm, This is great news. Congratulations to you and the founding members for getting OpenSFS off the ground. Is there a public mailing list to which interested community members can subscribe for on-going news and updates? I didn't see anything on the web site other than the membership application.
Cheers, Bojanic On Oct 19, 2010, at 13:05 , lustre-discuss-requ...@lists.lustre.org wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:58:58 -0500 > From: Norman Morse <normanrmo...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Lustre-discuss] Announce the establishment of Open Scalable > File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS) > To: lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org > Message-ID: > <aanlktin-qx9co57y_n3lvsczotji4h2rvnmtzuezy...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Dear Lustre Community Member: > > It is with great pleasure that I announce the establishment of Open Scalable > File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS), a non-profit mutual benefit corporation > focused on the advancement and promotion of scalable, open-source file > systems for the high performance computing (HPC) and data intensive > computing community. OpenSFS will focus initially on requirements and > priorities supporting Lustre? file system stabilization and future > development on the Linux operating system. > > Established with the strategic support and multi-million dollar membership > funding from the organization's founding members - Cray Inc., DataDirect > Networks Inc. (DDN), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Oak > Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), OpenSFS will provide a collaborative > environment in which parallel file system requirements can be > aggregated, distilled, and prioritized to coordinate development activities > targeted at meeting the needs of the HPC community. > > Guided by input from the entire Lustre? community, OpenSFS participants will > formalize requirements for Lustre? advancement (education, community > outreach, new features, bug fixes, etc.) and will establish priorities for > those requirements within OpenSFS to guide awarding contracts to Lustre? > developers to address those requirements. The contracts will be funded > using OpenSFS participant dues. > > Following the example of successful open-source collaborative organizations > that have preceded it - OpenSFS aims to help establish the open source file > systems it promotes and contributes to as industry-wide open standards by > driving education, community outreach, stability, usability and > forward-feature development. > > At its inception, OpenSFS is backed with funding levels and an > organizational structure that will allow an immediate positive impact for > the Lustre? community. We are now soliciting participation to begin the > requirements gathering and prioritization process. We would like your > input, contribution, and ongoing participation in OpenSFS and our various > working groups to ensure that community interests are best represented. > > > > You can join the OpenSFS community by visiting us at > openSFS.org<http://opensfs.org/>. > Here you will find our bylaws, participation terms, forms and working group > details as they become established (as some of the working groups are still > under construction, this is a good time to join and influence development). > An overview summary of the OpenSFS organization, objectives and structure > can also be found on our web site. > > > > We will host an OpenSFS Information Session in parallel with SC10 in New > Orleans currently scheduled for 2:30-4:00pm on Tuesday November 16th. We > will give a short overview of OpenSFS and answer questions regarding the > organization as well as provide a chance for everyone to meet and interact > with other Lustre? community members. Details regarding meeting location > will be posted on our web site before SC10. > > > > I and all the OpenSFS founding members invite you to join us in improving > existing and creating new open source file systems to support the HPC > environment. Together, we can truly make a difference. > > > > With Best Regards, > > > > Norm Morse > > President and CEO, OpenSFS _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss