Thank you, Joerg. I've put a link to this message on the election page: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/2010
Valerie On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Joerg Schilling wrote: > I am working on UNIX, as well as on OpenSource since a long time. > I started with first UNIX experiences around 1980 when we made our own > UNIX tutorial at the TU-Berlin from (at that time) illegal copies of the > Lions UNIX V6 book. I made my first real "UNIX" experiences with a UNIX > clone called UNOS in 1982. I started writing the OSS "star" implementation > in 1982 on a UNOS based system. > > I made my first OSS experiences in the early 1980s with the OpenSource > movement that was initiated by Larry Wall and Rich Salz in the late 1970s > together with the Usenet-News system. > > 1984, I joined the H. Berthold AG in Berlin and started working on the > kernel source of the UNOS variant from H.Berthold AG. At the same time, > I finished "bsh", one of the first shells with a cursor editable history > concept from me made in 1982. > > In January 1985, H. Berthold AG stopped working on own hardware and on UNOS > and bought the first Sun system that made it to Europe. Berthold soon became > the second largest Sun OEM. Sun supplied me (via Horst Winterhoff and Bill > Joy) with a free SunOS source to allow me to write my diploma thesis - a > WORM filesystem for SunOS-4.0 that is fully copy on write. > > Due to my historical experiences with UNIX, I was always interested to have > the UNIX sources freely available for everyone and I was very happy to see > the birth of OpenSolaris. I was one of the first participants of the > OpenSolaris Pilot in September 2004 and I published the first OpenSolaris > based distro on June 17th 2005 - 3 days after OpenSolaris has been released > by Sun. > > For the people who have not been in the OpenSolaris pilot: I initiated the > idea of the OpenSolaris constitution and the OGB in December 2004 and I > first had to fight against some people with this idea until it was accepted > in January 2005. > > I am a strong supporter of the OpenSolaris constitution and the OGB and > I believe that it is very important for the OpenSolaris community to have > a self-confident OGB. If I get elected, I will work for a strong OpenSolaris > community and I will support the long term existence of OpenSolaris in > freedom. > I am also interested to support a good co-existence of the people who work > together on OpenSolaris (inside and outside of Sun/Oracle). > > I also believe that we need to work on improving the size of the OpenSolaris > community and to increase the visibility of the OpenSolaris community in the > public. > > BTW: Together with some students in Berlin, I am currently planning a campaign > to support real free code. This makes sense as there is a nicely improving > number of students that privately run OpenSolaris. Stay tuned.... > > > J?rg > >
