Ben Rockwood wrote: > I say now, as I've said more subtly in the past, this community lacks > real leadership. Not since the demise of Tonic, loss of Madam Claire > Giordano, Mr. Roy Fielding, Mr. Keith Wesolowski, et al, have we had > such leadership as during our Pilot. > > In the pilot we set forth great and noble goals for our community and > for ourselves. Since that time we have only retreated further and > further from them, losing valuable and noble persons in the wake. >
The pilot was a closed program of 300 people on 10 lists. It was tiny. And it took a 12 months of working every day to get to that point. And during that time, OpenSolaris was a very small project inside Sun. We are open now and have over 350 lists with about 15,000 people on those lists -- not to mention all the stuff going on outside opensolaris.org around the world. Things are very different now, but we are not necessarily less noble. We always expected that the project would grow to involve a great many levels of the company and, hopefully, the community. And it certainly has. Things are distributed now and so is the leadership model. I don`t see a problem with that. Now, you could argue with the leadership of any given area, sure, but hey, that`s sport and we all do that. From a community perspective, though, I see leaders all over the place. They are emerging from the bottom up based on their work in various projects or in a given geography. There is no /single/ leader, though, and no /single/ individual or team runs everything on OpenSolaris around the world. Again, I don`t see a problem with that. It`s a characteristic of this project. Actually, I see it as an opportunity for people to take leadership roles by simply digging in and doing the work we all know needs doing. Jim
