Hi, guys.
Occasionally, we have conversations about how we are doing as a
community. These conversations take place on these forums, at
conferences and user groups around the world, and also inside Sun. I'd
like to get a conversation going about where we all think we are right
now as a community and where we'd like to go.
At this point, we have an enormous amount of code out there, many
projects and communities, a few ports and distributions, code
integrations, a variety of contributions, an SCM infrastructure coming,
and a draft governance model close to done. We also have about 150 mail
lists with thousands of developers generating a stunning amount of
conversation, and we have about 16K or so people registered on the site.
So ... where do we go from here?
Year one was clearly about getting out there, releasing lots of code,
and building infrastructure. What's next? To me, community growth -- in
size and diversity -- makes a lot of sense to be discussing, but I'm
happy to shut up and sit down if people think this is not a valid area
of focus. Keep in mind, when I say "community growth" what I mean very
simply is people. I'm still amazed -- and inspired -- by the fact that a
large number of people out there don't we're open. I've always viewed
this as an opportunity for growth, though, not as a problem. But are we
engaging them properly?
Some questions for consideration:
* Are we happy with the current size and growth rate of the community?
* Are we measuring this growth accurately?
* How much could we potentially grow? And in what areas?
* If we wanted to grow in size significantly, how would we do it?
* Now that the community is more diversified, how do we view Sun's role?
* What are we not doing as a community that we could or should be doing?
* What should Sun do to help grow the community, and what should we as a
community do for ourselves?
* What's possible?
* What am I missing ...
Any thoughts would be appreciated -- partly because I'm very much
invested in seeing this project grow, partly because I like talking
about the community to new people, and partly because I'm pretty bullish
about our potential. And also, there are always new people joining the
OpenSolaris community, and I'd love to get their opinions on this issue
as well.
Best,
Jim
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