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Wed Mar 10 18:39:34 GMT 2010 Better late than never. I'll keep this brief because I really do not have a soapbox to stand on or a long speech to give. My position is simple and my intentions plain. First : I voted for the new constitution. See The OpenSolaris Constitution at http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/Proposed+Constitution I hope you vote also. I am a free and OPEN source software advocate. I have worked to support UNIX users and groups of users both commercial and otherwise for quite some time. I have been using and programming on UNIX systems since somewhere in the early eighties and there is no need to get into the specifics. Let's just say my beard is gray, my suspenders black. I have been involved with the OpenSolaris project since the day it was called "Open Solaris" and "big daddy" Jim Grisanzio and I talked late on the phone about how to get a pilot project going with some community people involved. Good people like J?rg Schilling who I also vote for because he slaved night and day to make the first OpenSolaris distro. SchilliX. It still boots darn near anything. I admire that sort of invention and dedication. Also, he is brilliant and blunt. We need such folks that will rock the boat. Why am I talking about other people and dropping names? Because we are a community. We are a group of people. This is NOT about me. This is about how WE can go forwards and how WE as a group of hard working dedicated users and programmers can nurture the last great UNIX class system in the world. I really think that there is nothing on the planet that can compete with OpenSolaris feature for feature and I'll put that on a T-shirt and wear it at a Linux conference. I have done it before. Please send flowers to the correct hospital next time. The items on my mind for the future do not really change much. I want to foster and grow the community. I want to open or replace the closed bins. I would like to see OpenSolaris as a platform that can fully build and bootstrap itself in an open way without being so horribly tricky and technical that a motivated user could not just "do it". With one cup of coffee in hand. The problem is .. I love the Sun Studio compiler tools and those are not open. Maybe we can not have everything. :-) I will work to do "the right thing". Support other people and also do business right. Blastwave.org will still release software that runs on Solaris 8 systems and upwards. I hope that is not seen as a conflict of interest. I really like to make things easier for people that are often left stuck trying to figure it out for themselves. This is why I put 64-bit binaries and libs in the SVR4 packages I build as well as 32-bit. Allow those old users to run the new things and migrate easily towards the future without loss in features. Seems reasonable doesn't it? Think of UNIX and OpenSolaris as my passion in the same way that others build custom cars in their garage or release awesome distros like BeleniX. I'll make mistakes. I often do. I'll be open about whats on my mind and I'll try to gather input. I want the OGB to be an open process. Dennis Clarke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (SunOS) iEYEARECAAYFAkuX7H8ACgkQHZNscvo1tEsvJQCgolYf/CZy/dWtNZNlCaCuJNxz uGkAoISwQoskHCrvPLRhlyjJeJcOGJJc =p2BB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
