Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Thought this might be of interest to some here, but if you want to > make a comment for the record on it, you'ld need to mail ogb-discuss. > > -alan- > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [ogb-discuss] Proposal for Virtual Client Community > Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:31:59 -0700 > From: Ray Strong <Ray.Strong at Sun.COM> > Reply-To: Ray.Strong at Sun.COM > To: ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > CC: srssoscore at sun.com > > > > The following is a proposal for a Virtual Client Community on > opensolaris.org. > > Name: > Virtual Client > > Background: > > Sun provides a family of layered software for virtual client computing. > Sun Ray Software (SRS), Sun Secure Global Desktop (SGD), and the Virtual > Device Access Kit (VDA) provide different solutions for secure virtual > Solaris, Linux, and/or Windows desktops to client devices. It is our > goal to provide some elements of this software to the Open Source > community to drive adoption. > > Focus and Scope: > > The scope of the community will be implementations, ideas, innovations, > and research around virtual client computing. This scope includes, but > is not limited to, such areas as core technologies, APIs, system > administration, application support code (agents), portlets, and test > frameworks. > > Initial Contributions: > > Sun Microsystems will initially contribute to the community elements of > the source code for Sun Ray Software and associated management > applications under the name "Virtual Client Software."
I made a bold blue cross in my calendar: I remember a (one of my, so far, rare) discussions on IRC three or so weeks ago, when some people had predicted, this good news would never see the light, that it would stay proprietary "forever". Congrats to anyone involved! Quite some folks have been awaiting this. -- %martin > This contribution > will start at the time of community formation with links to the Desktop > Manager client source, the SSMA Open Source release, and portlets for > SGD. We will also build a central communication locus for discussion and > support of desktop and virtual client computing through a discussion > group and links to existing users groups. Our plan is also to use these > forums to assist us in evaluating what elements of source and/or > technology to release next and our open source roadmap development. > > > Nominating Members: > Alan Coopersmith > Glynn Foster > Jay Cotton > Stuart Kreitman > > Core Contributors (all from Sun Microsystems): > Jerry Wall > Sandya Menon > John Bondi > Dirk Grobler > Michael Bender > Michael Oliver > Michael Dann > Ray Strong > > Initial Facilitator: > Ray Strong > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org
