Thanks, Dennis. I've linked to this in the mail archives from: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/2010
Valerie On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Dennis Clarke wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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----- > > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss > >
