From Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM Fri Dec 14 17:32:19 2007 From: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM (Teresa Giacomini) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:32:19 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Time to get to work Message-ID: <47632EA3.2030404@Sun.COM> Hi everyone, I've been thinking about the awards program and there is so much that needs to get done. In fact, the third-party legal provider has asked that we get a draft of our program to them by next Friday 12/21 if at all possible. I'd like to shoot for that date. Here are some things that I think need doing. They are in no particular order. Please comment, add to the list, etc... Let's also start discussing by phone on Monday, December 17th at 4pm PT. Dial-in Info: ------------- 866-651-9314 865-525-0765 x44404 p/c 1234403 Read on! Thanks, T General - decide if we are going to stick with the areas that have been proposed - determine if prizes are the same globally, $x go a lot farther in China and India for example - remember to consider the impact of the $ amount: smaller amount more checks, larger amount more paperwork - contact other communities re: how they are handling certain things like payment - website work - will the final final thing be on Genunix too? opensolaris.org? How do we get that ball rolling? Student Research - dig up summer research awards for team to review and comment - submission process - establish criteria for review - get reviewers Device Drivers - develop list of DD - inform DD community - determine if all DD will get same award level - figure out how to track who is working on which driver - or do we care? - establish criteria for judging - get judges Apps and Packages - get list of apps and packages needed - inform the Packaging project - determine if all apps and packages will get same award level - figure out how to track who is working on which package/app - or do we care? - establish criteria for judging - get judges Documentation - develop list of eligible documentation - inform Documentation community - ask Michelle to drive within that community - determine if all docs will get the same award level - figure out how to track who is working on which doc - or do we care? - establish criteria for judging - get judges Wildcard - I have no idea what to do here.... From anil.verve at gmail.com Fri Dec 14 20:24:40 2007 From: anil.verve at gmail.com (Anil Gulecha) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:54:40 +0530 Subject: [awards-program] Time to get to work In-Reply-To: <47632EA3.2030404@Sun.COM> References: <47632EA3.2030404@Sun.COM> Message-ID: <148d59250712142024r5fd3517ah2b05c9d5f30f29d1@mail.gmail.com> On 12/15/07, Teresa Giacomini wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been thinking about the awards program and there is so much that > needs to get done. In fact, the third-party legal provider has asked > that we get a draft of our program to them by next Friday 12/21 if at > all possible. I'd like to shoot for that date. > > Here are some things that I think need doing. They are in no particular > order. Please comment, add to the list, etc... > > Let's also start discussing by phone on Monday, December 17th at 4pm PT. > > Dial-in Info: > ------------- > 866-651-9314 > 865-525-0765 > x44404 > p/c 1234403 > > Read on! > Thanks, > T > > > General > - decide if we are going to stick with the areas that have been proposed > - determine if prizes are the same globally, $x go a lot farther in > China and India for example > - remember to consider the impact of the $ amount: smaller amount more > checks, larger amount more paperwork > - contact other communities re: how they are handling certain things > like payment > - website work - will the final final thing be on Genunix too? > opensolaris.org? How do we get that ball rolling? > > Student Research > - dig up summer research awards for team to review and comment > - submission process > - establish criteria for review > - get reviewers > > Device Drivers > - develop list of DD > - inform DD community > - determine if all DD will get same award level > - figure out how to track who is working on which driver - or do we care? > - establish criteria for judging > - get judges > > Apps and Packages > - get list of apps and packages needed > - inform the Packaging project > - determine if all apps and packages will get same award level > - figure out how to track who is working on which package/app - or do we > care? > - establish criteria for judging > - get judges > > Documentation > - develop list of eligible documentation > - inform Documentation community > - ask Michelle to drive within that community > - determine if all docs will get the same award level > - figure out how to track who is working on which doc - or do we care? > - establish criteria for judging > - get judges > > Wildcard > - I have no idea what to do here.... > Hi Teresa/All, As far as the student oriented research is concerned, we should also have and open end to allow students to come up with their own ideas, apart from the ones we list (a la GSoC). This could also be extended to the other areas like Device Drivers/Apps. That way, if selected, the participants get to work on their favorite topic and get paid for it. Anil PS : If you need hands with the student side of the program, I volunteer to help. From Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM Fri Dec 14 22:32:15 2007 From: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM (Teresa Giacomini) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:32:15 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Time to get to work In-Reply-To: <148d59250712142024r5fd3517ah2b05c9d5f30f29d1@mail.gmail.com> References: <47632EA3.2030404@Sun.COM> <148d59250712142024r5fd3517ah2b05c9d5f30f29d1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <476374EF.5090605@sun.com> Anil Gulecha wrote: > Hi Teresa/All, > As far as the student oriented research is concerned, we should also > have and open end to allow students to come up with their own ideas, > apart from the ones we list (a la GSoC). This could also be extended > to the other areas like Device Drivers/Apps. That way, if selected, > the participants get to work on their favorite topic and get paid for > it. > > Anil > > PS : If you need hands with the student side of the program, I > volunteer to help. > Hi Anil, We'd love to have your help. I plan to send out the proposal for the student research awards soon. They are actually quite open-ended. If we go with that proposal, a student and faculty member would make a joint proposal on research they are interested in conducting. This research may or may not result in code. Students are also welcome to participate in the other part of the program too... Join us on Monday if you can! T From Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM Mon Dec 17 16:18:12 2007 From: Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM (Jesse Silver) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:18:12 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Today's Meeting Message-ID: <476711C4.8060308@sun.com> Sorry to anyone trying to call into the 4pm PT meeting. The meeting is still on, though we are having trouble with the con-call number. If you can, hold tight - an update is coming in the next few minutes. From Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM Mon Dec 17 16:32:11 2007 From: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM (Teresa Giacomini) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:32:11 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] [Fwd: Time to get to work] Message-ID: <4767150B.1010701@sun.com> Hi everyone, I am so sorry. Phone troubles. If you are still interested, please dial-in now. Thanks, T -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [awards-program] Time to get to work Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:32:19 -0800 From: Teresa Giacomini Reply-To: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM To: awards-program at opensolaris.org Hi everyone, I've been thinking about the awards program and there is so much that needs to get done. In fact, the third-party legal provider has asked that we get a draft of our program to them by next Friday 12/21 if at all possible. I'd like to shoot for that date. Here are some things that I think need doing. They are in no particular order. Please comment, add to the list, etc... Let's also start discussing by phone on Monday, December 17th at 4pm PT. Dial-in Info: ------------- 866-651-9314 865-525-0765 x44404 p/c 1234403 Read on! Thanks, T General - decide if we are going to stick with the areas that have been proposed - determine if prizes are the same globally, $x go a lot farther in China and India for example - remember to consider the impact of the $ amount: smaller amount more checks, larger amount more paperwork - contact other communities re: how they are handling certain things like payment - website work - will the final final thing be on Genunix too? opensolaris.org? How do we get that ball rolling? Student Research - dig up summer research awards for team to review and comment - submission process - establish criteria for review - get reviewers Device Drivers - develop list of DD - inform DD community - determine if all DD will get same award level - figure out how to track who is working on which driver - or do we care? - establish criteria for judging - get judges Apps and Packages - get list of apps and packages needed - inform the Packaging project - determine if all apps and packages will get same award level - figure out how to track who is working on which package/app - or do we care? - establish criteria for judging - get judges Documentation - develop list of eligible documentation - inform Documentation community - ask Michelle to drive within that community - determine if all docs will get the same award level - figure out how to track who is working on which doc - or do we care? - establish criteria for judging - get judges Wildcard - I have no idea what to do here.... _______________________________________________ awards-program mailing list awards-program at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program From Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM Mon Dec 17 16:31:56 2007 From: Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM (Jim Grisanzio) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:31:56 +0900 Subject: [awards-program] Today's Meeting In-Reply-To: <476711C4.8060308@sun.com> References: <476711C4.8060308@sun.com> Message-ID: <476714FC.7010200@sun.com> Jesse Silver wrote: > Sorry to anyone trying to call into the 4pm PT meeting. The meeting is > still on, though we are having trouble with the con-call number. If you > can, hold tight - an update is coming in the next few minutes. > _______________________________________________ > awards-program mailing list > awards-program at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program > we're on now From Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM Mon Dec 17 18:31:50 2007 From: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM (Teresa Giacomini) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:31:50 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Notes: Awards Meeting 17 December 2007 Message-ID: <47673116.8020307@sun.com> Hi Folks, Here are my notes from our meeting today. Please let me know if I missed, or misrepresented anything. In order to make headway and get something to legal by the end of the week, we decided to meet *daily at 4pm PT* this week. Dial-in Info: ------------- 866-651-9314 865-525-0765 x44404 p/c 1234403 ================================================================================ Meeting Notes: 17 December 2007 ================================================================================ *ATTENDEES* Alta Elstad Teresa Giacomini Joey Guo Jim Grisanzio Jesse Silver *ACTION ITEMS* - Each owner noted below will research their area and return with as much information as possible on that area. *DECISIONS* - Proceed with the categories and distribution originally proposed until we hit an obstacle that tells us we cannot proceed in that direction. For example, if no one in the community steps up to review, judge etc specific categories. *GENERAL DISCUSSION* *Prize Amounts* - should they vary by geography? - do we have to have a pre-defined amount? - can we approach all categories like a grant program and determine the award amount on the merits of the proposal? - what about first, second, third level type prizes? - classify by difficulty and quality - smaller awards will spread across more people - build community - large awards for fewer people may spark more interest - need to strike a balance - save some big chunks for higher quality things *Distribution of Prizes* - geographic component: number of participants? size of potential market? - first submitted - best submitted - what if we do not get anything submitted for a particular area? - individuals or teams - may want to use Wildcard category for grand prizes for particularly innovative ideas *Potential Reach* - for the OpenSolaris Programming Contest in China, promotion was done to over 2000 students; 300 registered for the program. *Owners by Area* - Student Research - Teresa - Device Drivers - Jesse/Joey - Apps and Packages - Teresa (acting) - Documentation - Jim/Alta - Wildcard - Joey *Decisions/Actions Needed in Each Area* (owners to drive) - develop list of eligible work - inform appropriate communities and projects - determine if all work will get the same award level - figure out how to track who is working on what - or do we care? - establish criteria for judging - get judges *Comments on Device Drivers* Very hard for people outside the company to get the data sheets from the manufacturers. Need to take good care of the IP issues. Chris Baker was really down on the idea because it is difficult to decide which drivers. Best drivers come from relationships between Sun and other companies. Dan Roberts think that this is not true and we can do drivers. Suggestions were made to contact the Starfish project, the IHV group that supports drivers (James Liu), the Beijing driver group (Paul Lee), Garrett D'Amore and Juergen Kiel. From Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM Mon Dec 17 21:37:24 2007 From: Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM (Jim Grisanzio) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:37:24 +0900 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Notes: Awards Meeting 17 December 2007 In-Reply-To: <47673116.8020307@sun.com> References: <47673116.8020307@sun.com> Message-ID: <47675C94.4070009@sun.com> fyi: I pinged docs-discuss and i18n-discuss today to gage interest and get some conversations started. Although we don't have an i18n category, they can participate within one of the other categories. That goes for other CGs as well, of course. Teresa Giacomini wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Here are my notes from our meeting today. Please let me know if I > missed, or misrepresented anything. In order to make headway and get > something to legal by the end of the week, we decided to meet *daily at > 4pm PT* this week. Every day is ok except for your Fri (which is my Saturday). Usually Sat morning is ok, but not this week. > Dial-in Info: > ------------- > 866-651-9314 > 865-525-0765 x44404 > p/c 1234403 > > ================================================================================ > Meeting Notes: 17 December 2007 > ================================================================================ > > *ATTENDEES* > Alta Elstad > Teresa Giacomini > Joey Guo > Jim Grisanzio > Jesse Silver > > *ACTION ITEMS* > - Each owner noted below will research their area and return with as much information > as possible on that area. > > *DECISIONS* > - Proceed with the categories and distribution originally proposed until we hit an > obstacle that tells us we cannot proceed in that direction. For example, if no one > in the community steps up to review, judge etc specific categories. I think this is key. We need as much direct involvement in managing the program as possible since we will be potentially engaging large numbers of people. We'll specially need experts who will act as judges. We've announced the program on the announce list and on the main discuss list and the Advocacy list, and it's been in high profile blogs and in the press. So, I think it's safe to assume that people have been notified. This week, after our individual efforts, we'll make decisions based on the info we have. Can you give us a sense of Sun's upcoming deadlines? > *GENERAL DISCUSSION* > > *Prize Amounts* > - should they vary by geography? I vote no on this. I think it should be based on who participates and it shouldn't matter from where they participate (unless there is a legal reason involved). > - do we have to have a pre-defined amount? > - can we approach all categories like a grant program and determine the award amount on > the merits of the proposal? > - what about first, second, third level type prizes? > - classify by difficulty and quality > - smaller awards will spread across more people - build community > - large awards for fewer people may spark more interest I vote for a few large prizes and many small ones. > - need to strike a balance > - save some big chunks for higher quality things > > *Distribution of Prizes* > - geographic component: number of participants? size of potential market? > - first submitted > - best submitted > - what if we do not get anything submitted for a particular area? > - individuals or teams > - may want to use Wildcard category for grand prizes for particularly innovative ideas This was an interesting idea for the Wildcard. > *Potential Reach* > - for the OpenSolaris Programming Contest in China, promotion was done to over 2000 > students; 300 registered for the program. > > *Owners by Area* > - Student Research - Teresa > - Device Drivers - Jesse/Joey > - Apps and Packages - Teresa (acting) > - Documentation - Jim/Alta > - Wildcard - Joey > > *Decisions/Actions Needed in Each Area* (owners to drive) > - develop list of eligible work > - inform appropriate communities and projects > - determine if all work will get the same award level > - figure out how to track who is working on what - or do we care? > - establish criteria for judging > - get judges > > *Comments on Device Drivers* > > Very hard for people outside the company to get the data sheets from the manufacturers. > Need to take good care of the IP issues. Chris Baker was really down on the idea because > it is difficult to decide which drivers. Best drivers come from relationships between Sun > and other companies. Dan Roberts think that this is not true and we can do drivers. > Suggestions were made to contact the Starfish project, the IHV group that supports drivers > (James Liu), the Beijing driver group (Paul Lee), Garrett D'Amore and Juergen Kiel. Jim -- Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris From Joey.Guo at Sun.COM Tue Dec 18 16:24:46 2007 From: Joey.Guo at Sun.COM (joey) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:24:46 +0800 Subject: [awards-program] [Fwd: question on the Innovation Award program] In-Reply-To: <4767AF1E.7030501@sun.com> References: <4767AF1E.7030501@sun.com> Message-ID: <476864CE.3020600@sun.com> Hi Folks, Pls refer to the question from Polly. Your help on including Polly into the mail-list is appreciated! Best regards, Joey Polly Wang ??: > Dear Joey, > My email to the awards-program at opensolaris.org is rejected. It says > "You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message > has been automatically rejected.". > > Could you help forward my question to the right person? > > Thanks, > Polly > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: question on the Innovation Award program > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:25:09 +0800 > From: Polly Wang > To: awards-program at opensolaris.org > CC: melanie gao > > > > Dear Sir/Madam, > I am Polly Wang working on OpenSolaris/Communities in Asian > Globalization Center based in Beijing. I got to know the Innovation > Award program from Joey Guo. I have a question on this program. > > Does translation of OpenSolaris documentation fit into this program? For > example, translating some OpenSolaris English documentation into > Simplified Chinese. > > Thanks, > > -- > Polly Wang > Program Manager - Product Planning > Asian Globalization Center > Sun China Engineering & Research Institute > Tel: 86-10-62677902 > > > > -- Joey Guo, University Program Manager Sun China Engineering & Research Institute Tel: (86)10-62673245 Mobile: (86)13701115218 http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo http://opentech.org.cn http://eri.prc/wiki/univ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM Tue Dec 18 23:44:52 2007 From: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM (Teresa Giacomini) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:44:52 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Notes: Community Awards 12/18/07 Message-ID: <4768CBF4.20401@sun.com> Hi folks, Here are my notes from today. Let me know if I missed or misrepresented anything. In tomorrow's meeting we will review the legal document and start trying to fill it in. Should be fun! Next call: Wednesday 4pm PT Dial-in Info: ------------- 866-651-9314 865-525-0765 x44404 p/c 1234403 Speak with you then, T ================================================================================ Meeting Notes: 17 December 2007 ================================================================================ *ATTENDEES* Alta Elstad Teresa Giacomini Joey Guo Jim Grisanzio James Liu Jesse Silver *ACTION ITEMS* Joey - work on wish list for device drivers over the break - category, level of difficulty, priority level, manufacturer data sheet available *UPDATE BY AREA* *Documentation* - note sent to the docs community - will globalization and internationalization count as documentation - will we have reviewers for this? - one person suggested a drawing tool - Alan Coopersmith wrote a long reply with lots of ideas - Alta talked to Mike Pogue is trying to work on some tools to go from wiki to xml *Device Drivers* - sent messages to Chris and James asking them to join the call - had a discussion with Glynn - thinks that drivers are doable but messy - rules in a few days, daunting at best - talked to several people in Beijing, ready to participate, and creating a wish list for different areas, there is one for the network drivers already, they want to provide more details, but it will take some time *Apps & Packages* - Teresa still needs to talk to Vincent *Student Research* - will send overview tomorrow *Wild Card* - done some emails, but no replies - called several professors - from the outside community, it is very hard to generate innovation without ????? - Sun needs to give direction or guidance *Program Structure Ideas* - three prizes within each category, not everyone who contributes will get a prize, just the best - we should not pay people to do specific tasks - change the categories a bit. Things like: kernel, usability - instead of having fixed categories, maybe provide a list of ideas to get people started - code does not necessarily need to be complete, could just be a paper - how would we structure large numbers of smaller awards - more community minded - can't be smoke and mirrors - porting is key - segregate professionals and academics - bar higher for professionals - more prizes should go to the academics - may encourage people to build teams I believe we came to the following agreement. Please correct me if I am wrong! - May or may not have a specific list of categories (aside from the Student Research program) - May have a list of ideas instead - People/teams will submit an entry which will be reviewed by a panel of judges. - If the criteria are met, a prize is awarded. Amount TBD. - Some number of larger prizes which may include more cash, travel, cool boxes James mentioned etc. will be granted. *Submissions and Judging Criteria* - problem statement framed around a business proposition - develop a proof of concept using only OpenSolaris and publicly available retail parts - includes man-page (some documentation) - has to build - basic packaging - submit as a source package - judges will run a configure script to do a make and a make install or equivalent using packaging - straightforward initialization routine that should take no more than 5 minutes - will be judged on: innovation, quality, usability, etc etc *Concerns* - Is it a problem if Sun are working on something and someone else is too? What if it is better/more efficient to work together? - What if we do not get enough submissions to qualify? - If it is completely wide-open, will we be able to get qualified judges/reviewers for all? - We are not going to get very much innovation in just a few months. From Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM Tue Dec 18 16:25:16 2007 From: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM (Teresa Giacomini) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:25:16 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Legal Template Message-ID: <476864EC.4070203@sun.com> Hi folks, Here is the template we will need to complete at least once and probably twice for our two programs. T -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: Sun Community Contribution Award Contest Template.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 102031 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM Wed Dec 19 15:04:57 2007 From: Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM (Jesse Silver) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:04:57 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Notes: Community Awards 12/18/07 In-Reply-To: <4768CBF4.20401@sun.com> References: <4768CBF4.20401@sun.com> Message-ID: <4769A399.8020209@sun.com> Today, reading back James' suggestion gets me really excited. I think we may have one hell of a program here. The money quote: "problem statement framed around a business proposition". Really a great way of framing an innovation contest. Teresa Giacomini wrote: > Hi folks, > > Here are my notes from today. Let me know if I missed or misrepresented > anything. In tomorrow's meeting we will review the legal document and > start trying to fill it in. Should be fun! > > Next call: Wednesday 4pm PT > > Dial-in Info: > ------------- > 866-651-9314 > 865-525-0765 x44404 > p/c 1234403 > > Speak with you then, > T > > ================================================================================ > Meeting Notes: 17 December 2007 > ================================================================================ > > *ATTENDEES* > Alta Elstad > Teresa Giacomini > Joey Guo > Jim Grisanzio > James Liu > Jesse Silver > > *ACTION ITEMS* > Joey - work on wish list for device drivers over the break > - category, level of difficulty, priority level, manufacturer > data sheet available > > *UPDATE BY AREA* > > *Documentation* > - note sent to the docs community > - will globalization and internationalization count as documentation - > will we have reviewers for this? > - one person suggested a drawing tool > - Alan Coopersmith wrote a long reply with lots of ideas > - Alta talked to Mike Pogue is trying to work on some tools to go from > wiki to xml > > *Device Drivers* > - sent messages to Chris and James asking them to join the call > - had a discussion with Glynn - thinks that drivers are doable but messy > - rules in a few days, daunting at best > - talked to several people in Beijing, ready to participate, and > creating a wish list for different areas, there is one > for the network drivers already, they want to provide more details, > but it will take some time > > *Apps & Packages* > - Teresa still needs to talk to Vincent > > *Student Research* > - will send overview tomorrow > > *Wild Card* > - done some emails, but no replies > - called several professors > - from the outside community, it is very hard to generate innovation > without ????? > - Sun needs to give direction or guidance > > *Program Structure Ideas* > - three prizes within each category, not everyone who contributes will > get a prize, just the best > - we should not pay people to do specific tasks > - change the categories a bit. Things like: kernel, usability > - instead of having fixed categories, maybe provide a list of ideas to > get people started > - code does not necessarily need to be complete, could just be a paper > - how would we structure large numbers of smaller awards - more > community minded > - can't be smoke and mirrors > - porting is key > - segregate professionals and academics > - bar higher for professionals > - more prizes should go to the academics > - may encourage people to build teams > > I believe we came to the following agreement. Please correct me if I am > wrong! > - May or may not have a specific list of categories (aside from the > Student Research program) > - May have a list of ideas instead > - People/teams will submit an entry which will be reviewed by a panel of > judges. > - If the criteria are met, a prize is awarded. Amount TBD. > - Some number of larger prizes which may include more cash, travel, cool > boxes James mentioned etc. will be granted. > > *Submissions and Judging Criteria* > - problem statement framed around a business proposition > - develop a proof of concept using only OpenSolaris and publicly > available retail parts > - includes man-page (some documentation) > - has to build > - basic packaging > - submit as a source package > - judges will run a configure script to do a make and a make install or > equivalent using packaging > - straightforward initialization routine that should take no more than 5 > minutes > - will be judged on: innovation, quality, usability, etc etc > > *Concerns* > - Is it a problem if Sun are working on something and someone else is > too? What if it is better/more efficient to work together? > - What if we do not get enough submissions to qualify? > - If it is completely wide-open, will we be able to get qualified > judges/reviewers for all? > - We are not going to get very much innovation in just a few months. > _______________________________________________ > awards-program mailing list > awards-program at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program > From Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM Wed Dec 19 19:20:00 2007 From: Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM (Jim Grisanzio) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:20:00 +0900 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Notes: Community Awards 12/18/07 In-Reply-To: <4769A399.8020209@sun.com> References: <4768CBF4.20401@sun.com> <4769A399.8020209@sun.com> Message-ID: <4769DF60.9050304@sun.com> Jesse Silver wrote: > Today, reading back James' suggestion gets me really excited. I think we > may have one hell of a program here. The money quote: "problem statement > framed around a business proposition". Really a great way of framing an > innovation contest. I agree. Could be very cool. Also, I re-read the original Sun press release for the contest and it says that "Beginning in mid-January 2008, Sun and the six open source communities will announce details on how developers can participate in the individual programs." So, I'm assuming from that language that Sun will issue another corporate press release on behalf of the six communities. Is that a fair assumption? If so, when that occurs, we should distribute another announcement on opensolaris-announce and ping some other lists as well so people know how to get involved. Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris From Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM Wed Dec 19 21:30:40 2007 From: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM (Teresa Giacomini) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:30:40 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Notes: Community Awards 12/18/07 In-Reply-To: <4769DF60.9050304@sun.com> References: <4768CBF4.20401@sun.com> <4769A399.8020209@sun.com> <4769DF60.9050304@sun.com> Message-ID: <4769FE00.9040109@sun.com> Jim Grisanzio wrote: > Jesse Silver wrote: > >> Today, reading back James' suggestion gets me really excited. I think we >> may have one hell of a program here. The money quote: "problem statement >> framed around a business proposition". Really a great way of framing an >> innovation contest. >> > > I agree. Could be very cool. Also, I re-read the original Sun press > release for the contest and it says that "Beginning in mid-January 2008, > Sun and the six open source communities will announce details on how > developers can participate in the individual programs." So, I'm assuming > from that language that Sun will issue another corporate press release > on behalf of the six communities. Is that a fair assumption? If so, when > that occurs, we should distribute another announcement on > opensolaris-announce and ping some other lists as well so people know > how to get involved. > > Jim > Yep. That is my understanding. We'll need to have our website with the details etc up and running so that there is a landing page etc. Once we get through this definition phase, we'll need to focus on getting ready for the announcement, then submissions, then review of submissions, then awards.... From Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM Thu Dec 20 00:24:29 2007 From: Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM (Jesse Silver) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:24:29 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Thursday's meeting Message-ID: <476A26BD.7080302@sun.com> Perhaps today, those of us in Menlo Park planning to call into the 4pm meeting could congregate in a meeting room in either MPK17 or 18, and attend the call together. This way we can begin filling out the template, begin to get other collateral together, etc.. I'll plan on being in MPK between about 3pm & 7pm to get as much work done as possible on this project. From Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM Thu Dec 20 07:42:44 2007 From: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM (Teresa Giacomini) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:42:44 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Notes: Community Awards December 19, 2007 Message-ID: <476A8D74.2040803@sun.com> Hi folks, Here are my notes from today. Let me know if I missed or misrepresented anything. In today's meeting we will continue to review the legal document and maybe even begin work on the one for student research. Should be fun! Next call: Thursday 4pm PT Dial-in Info: ------------- 866-651-9314 865-525-0765 x44404 p/c 1234403 Speak with you then, T ================================================================================ Meeting Notes: 19 December 2007 ================================================================================ *ATTENDEES* Alta Elstad Teresa Giacomini Jim Grisanzio Jesse Silver We spent our time focusing on the legal rules. Attached is a very rough draft with lots of things to work out. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Sun Community Contribution Award Contest OpenSolaris.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 113234 bytes Desc: not available URL: From james.liu at sun.com Thu Dec 20 12:22:19 2007 From: james.liu at sun.com (James C. Liu) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:22:19 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Preamble draft and my brainstorm rules In-Reply-To: <476A26BD.7080302@sun.com> References: <476A26BD.7080302@sun.com> Message-ID: <476ACEFB.8030208@sun.com> Here's my first attempt at a draft... comments? -James +------------------------------------------------+ | James C. Liu, Ph.D. | | Solaris x86 IHV OEM Engineering | | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | | 17 Network Circle, UMPK-17-207 | | Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA | | +1-650-786-5179 Direct, +1-650-786-5747 FAX | +------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------ 1.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEST: The [OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Contest] is designed to ... " ...recognize and award outstanding Technical Submissions which demonstrate new, enabling, innovative and/or high-performance uses of Open Solaris. Participants in this Contest will begin by declaring a problem statement and proposing a solution. Proposals must be framed within the context of a business proposition. and can be either for profit or altruistic motives. Participants, must then submit a technical implementation of their solution whose software component(s) must execute on the OpenSolaris(TM) Operating Environment...." Prizes will be awarded to entrants who submit the best entries as determined by the judges in accordance with these Official Rules. James's brainstorm ideas on rules: 1. Two categories of prizes will be awarded. One category is for individuals or teams comprised solely of members of Academic institutions. The other category will be open to all individuals or teams. Academic-only submissions must be by members who all are registered students, faculty or staff at Academic institutions during the duration of the contest. Proof is required. The open category has no such restriction and will accept entries from non-academic and academic or mixed-type collaborators. 2. There will be no distinguishing difference in judging of submissions based on numbers of collaborators (i.e. submissions by individuals will be judged the same way as submissions by teams - hence it may be beneficial to collaborate). 3. There will be no limitations on numbers of teams and individual may participate in and no limitations on the numbers of submissions any individual or team may submit. 4. Submissions must include the written proposal and at a minimum, a working software implementation which is open sourced used the Open Solaris Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). Any specific hardware used must be provided by the submitter for judging and postage paid for return if required. 5. Judging will be based on some or all of the following criteria: - value proposition for innovativeness, creativity, potential market disruptiveness - quality of code/technical implementation - quality of accompanying written documentations or presentations - usability - completeness. 6. Submission must be either original work by the authors, derived work based on intellectual property owned or licensed by the submitters or derived work from others which has been put into the public domain or issued under a valid open source license and copyright free that allows porting to Open Solaris and re-issuing the implementation source code under the CDDL. From Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM Thu Dec 20 16:20:13 2007 From: Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM (Jesse Silver) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:20:13 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: Preamble draft and my brainstorm rules]] Message-ID: <476B06BD.8000000@sun.com> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [awards-program] Preamble draft and my brainstorm rules] Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:20:51 +1300 From: Glynn Foster To: Jesse Silver CC: Team Indiana References: <476ADEBF.4010104 at sun.com> Hey, So as per our phone call earlier, here's my comments - most of them are specifically due to this first paragraph comes across. > 1.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEST: > > The [OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Contest] is designed to ... > > " ...recognize and award outstanding Technical Submissions which > demonstrate new, enabling, innovative and/or high-performance > uses of Open Solaris. Participants in this Contest will > begin by declaring a problem statement and proposing a solution. > Proposals must be framed within the context of a business proposition. > and can be either for profit or altruistic motives. Participants, > must then submit a technical implementation of their solution whose > software component(s) must execute on the OpenSolaris(TM) Operating > Environment...." I think this is both too formal, too focused on technology (or cutting code), and too 'business' focused. We need to encourage the community feel, that we're all part of a global mesh of cultures, all excited in working on OpenSolaris as a set of technologies, and see that success grow. I can see why you'd want to mention that business proposals are acceptable, but really this is a community program, and we should encouraging all shapes and sizes, all colours, and all languages. I think the idea of submitting a problem statement is a great way to express an interest in the program (and I think everyone should do that right at the start), and then follow it up with a solution - whether that's a set of code, a bunch of documents, or whatever. In terms of actual code, we probably need to figure out whether success is judged on actually integrating that code, or just providing it as part of the 'solution'. The rules may want to address that in some way. Is request-sponsor a requisite for example? Glynn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Participants, must then submit their solution, with a requirement that any software component(s) execute on an OpenSolaris(TM) based operating enviornment...." Jesse Silver wrote: > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [awards-program] Preamble draft and my > brainstorm rules] > Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:20:51 +1300 > From: Glynn Foster > To: Jesse Silver > CC: Team Indiana > References: <476ADEBF.4010104 at sun.com> > > > > Hey, > > So as per our phone call earlier, here's my comments - most of them are > specifically due to this first paragraph comes across. > > > 1.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEST: > > > > The [OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Contest] is designed to ... > > > > " ...recognize and award outstanding Technical Submissions which > > demonstrate new, enabling, innovative and/or high-performance > > uses of Open Solaris. Participants in this Contest will > > begin by declaring a problem statement and proposing a solution. > > Proposals must be framed within the context of a business proposition. > > and can be either for profit or altruistic motives. Participants, > > must then submit a technical implementation of their solution whose > > software component(s) must execute on the OpenSolaris(TM) Operating > > Environment...." > > I think this is both too formal, too focused on technology (or cutting code), > and too 'business' focused. We need to encourage the community feel, that we're > all part of a global mesh of cultures, all excited in working on OpenSolaris as > a set of technologies, and see that success grow. I can see why you'd want to > mention that business proposals are acceptable, but really this is a community > program, and we should encouraging all shapes and sizes, all colours, and all > languages. > > I think the idea of submitting a problem statement is a great way to express an > interest in the program (and I think everyone should do that right at the > start), and then follow it up with a solution - whether that's a set of code, a > bunch of documents, or whatever. > > In terms of actual code, we probably need to figure out whether success is > judged on actually integrating that code, or just providing it as part of the > 'solution'. The rules may want to address that in some way. 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URL: From Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM Thu Dec 20 23:56:01 2007 From: Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM (Jim Grisanzio) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:56:01 +0900 Subject: [awards-program] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: Preamble draft and my brainstorm rules]] In-Reply-To: <476B11CC.6010002@sun.com> References: <476B06BD.8000000@sun.com> <476B11CC.6010002@sun.com> Message-ID: <476B7191.3030501@sun.com> Jesse Silver wrote: > Expanded version: > > " ...recognize and award outstanding Submissions which > demonstrate new, enabling, innovative and/or high-performance > uses of Open Solaris, or constitute a substantial contribution to the > OpenSolaris community. > Participants in this Contest will begin by declaring a problem statement > and proposing a solution. > Proposals may be framed within the context of a business proposition, or > could simply be a description of the solution, > and can be either for profit or altruistic motives. Participants, must > then submit their solution, > with a requirement that any software component(s) execute on an > OpenSolaris(TM) based operating enviornment...." This is good. I was playing around with some text and here is my version for consideration. But aren't we going to require that submissions be open source as well? I added that in at the end just in case. ... to recognize and award submissions that demonstrate new, enabling, innovative and/or high-performance uses of OpenSolaris technology, or submissions that constitute a substantial contribution to the OpenSolaris Community. Participants will submit a problem statement and proposed solution. Problem statements may be framed within the context of a business proposition, or they can be a description of a technical solution. Submissions can be either for profit or altruistic motives. All software components must execute on an OpenSolaris-based system and be released as open source ... Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris From Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM Fri Dec 21 02:02:25 2007 From: Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM (Jim Grisanzio) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:02:25 +0900 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Notes: Community Awards December 19, 2007 In-Reply-To: <476A8D74.2040803@sun.com> References: <476A8D74.2040803@sun.com> Message-ID: <476B8F31.5080701@sun.com> Just a reminder that we need to figure out how to handle non-English submissions. Will we accept applications in other languages? If so, how do we judge them? And if not, how do we have them translated so we can engage as many people in the community as possible? Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris From Joey.Guo at Sun.COM Fri Dec 21 02:28:38 2007 From: Joey.Guo at Sun.COM (Joey.Guo) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:28:38 +0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Notes: Community Awards December 19, 2007 In-Reply-To: <476B8F31.5080701@sun.com> References: <476A8D74.2040803@sun.com> <476B8F31.5080701@sun.com> Message-ID: <476B9556.2060808@Sun.COM> > Just a reminder that we need to figure out how to handle non-English > submissions. Will we accept applications in other languages? If we include the G18N projects, then we should definitely accept them. > If so, how > do we judge them? Could we engage the G18N community to judge them? > And if not, how do we have them translated so we can > engage as many people in the community as possible? > > Jim > Regards, -- Joey Guo, University Program Manager Sun China Engineering & Research Institute Tel: (86)10-62673245 Mobile: (86)13701115218 http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo http://opentech.org.cn http://eri.prc/wiki/univ From Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM Fri Dec 21 02:30:42 2007 From: Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM (Jim Grisanzio) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:30:42 +0900 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Notes: Community Awards December 19, 2007 In-Reply-To: <476B9556.2060808@Sun.COM> References: <476A8D74.2040803@sun.com> <476B8F31.5080701@sun.com> <476B9556.2060808@Sun.COM> Message-ID: <476B95D2.30009@sun.com> Joey.Guo wrote: >> Just a reminder that we need to figure out how to handle non-English >> submissions. Will we accept applications in other languages? > If we include the G18N projects, then we should definitely accept them. >> If so, how >> do we judge them? > Could we engage the G18N community to judge them? >> And if not, how do we have them translated so we can >> engage as many people in the community as possible? Good idea. :) I'll ping i18n-discuss and ask. Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris From Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM Fri Dec 21 09:37:09 2007 From: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM (Teresa Giacomini) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:37:09 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Today - 10am PT Message-ID: <476BF9C5.60909@sun.com> Hi folks, Running a little behind, so I have not sent out yesterday's notes. But we are going to have a meeting today at 10am PT. Dial-in Info: ------------- 866-651-9314 865-525-0765 x44404 p/c 1234403 I'll aim to send the latest rules before the meeting. T From Joey.Guo at Sun.COM Fri Dec 21 13:14:25 2007 From: Joey.Guo at Sun.COM (joey) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:14:25 +0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Today - 10am PT In-Reply-To: <476BF9C5.60909@sun.com> References: <476BF9C5.60909@sun.com> Message-ID: <476C2CB1.8040502@sun.com> Teresa Giacomini ??: > Hi folks, > > Running a little behind, so I have not sent out yesterday's notes. But > we are going to have a meeting today at 10am PT. > Sorry for my absence. I would like to update the progress from my part. 1. Wildcard Further discussion with some professors and community members, this category might include but not limit to the below projects: - Projects based on existing OpenSolaris features, such as DTrace, SMF, ZFS, xVM and so forth - Enhancement of current OpenSolaris projects - Porting OpenSolaris to new systems, esp. Embedded Processors & SoCs including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, x86 based Processors and SoCs - New OpenSolaris distribution, esp. based on Indiana project - Porting the current research project on other OSes to OpenSolaris 2. Device Driver Paul Lee has already sent out the email to the Device Driver development staffs and hope to collect all feedbacks and compile the device driver wish lists in next two week. Thanks, > Dial-in Info: > ------------- > 866-651-9314 > 865-525-0765 x44404 > p/c 1234403 > > I'll aim to send the latest rules before the meeting. > > T > > _______________________________________________ > awards-program mailing list > awards-program at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program > -- Joey Guo, University Program Manager Sun China Engineering & Research Institute Tel: (86)10-62673245 Mobile: (86)13701115218 http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo http://opentech.org.cn http://eri.prc/wiki/univ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Alta.Elstad at Sun.COM Fri Dec 21 13:43:10 2007 From: Alta.Elstad at Sun.COM (Alta Elstad) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:43:10 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Today - 10am PT In-Reply-To: <476C2CB1.8040502@sun.com> References: <476BF9C5.60909@sun.com> <476C2CB1.8040502@sun.com> Message-ID: <476C336E.6030706@Sun.COM> 1. We should decide now when our next meeting will be and who will host since it probably will be on January 2. Are you hosting, Jessie? What time works? I am completely open on the 2nd. 2. I think we should start collecting project ideas and put the list on the wiki. Even though we don't have to have the list yet, we will need it soon, and I don't want to lose track of all the great ideas people have already mentioned. I think we should list many, many ideas so that people understand that a wide range of subject areas and difficulty levels are acceptable. Joey has some ideas below. James has had some great ideas. Here are a couple from me, not extraordinarily innovative but perhaps acceptable? Instrument an existing driver for fault management? Write a new SMF script or DTrace script to do something cool? If you want me to I will be happy to update the wiki page to tone down or remove the discussion of categories and start a list of project ideas. Then anyone could add to the list of ideas. joey wrote: > Teresa Giacomini ??: >> Hi folks, >> >> Running a little behind, so I have not sent out yesterday's notes. But >> we are going to have a meeting today at 10am PT. >> > Sorry for my absence. > > I would like to update the progress from my part. > > 1. Wildcard > > Further discussion with some professors and community members, this > category might include but not limit to the below projects: > - Projects based on existing OpenSolaris features, such as DTrace, SMF, > ZFS, xVM and so forth > - Enhancement of current OpenSolaris projects > - Porting OpenSolaris to new systems, esp. Embedded Processors & SoCs > including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, x86 based Processors and SoCs > - New OpenSolaris distribution, esp. based on Indiana project > - Porting the current research project on other OSes to OpenSolaris > > 2. Device Driver > > Paul Lee has already sent out the email to the Device Driver development > staffs and hope to collect all feedbacks and compile the device driver > wish lists in next two week. > > Thanks, >> Dial-in Info: >> ------------- >> 866-651-9314 >> 865-525-0765 x44404 >> p/c 1234403 >> >> I'll aim to send the latest rules before the meeting. >> >> T >> >> _______________________________________________ >> awards-program mailing list >> awards-program at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >> > > > -- > > Joey Guo, University Program Manager > > Sun China Engineering & Research Institute > > Tel: (86)10-62673245 > > Mobile: (86)13701115218 > > > > http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo > > http://opentech.org.cn > > http://eri.prc/wiki/univ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > awards-program mailing list > awards-program at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program From Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM Fri Dec 21 13:52:33 2007 From: Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM (Jesse Silver) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:52:33 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Today - 10am PT In-Reply-To: <476C336E.6030706@Sun.COM> References: <476BF9C5.60909@sun.com> <476C2CB1.8040502@sun.com> <476C336E.6030706@Sun.COM> Message-ID: <476C35A1.4060901@sun.com> Hi there- I'd love to host on Jan 2nd. 4pm PT is good for me, but many other times work as well if anyone has a conflict. Access info: (866)230-6968 Int'l Access/Caller Paid Dial In Number: (865)544-7856 ACCESS CODE: 2192132 Alta Elstad wrote: > 1. We should decide now when our next meeting will be and who will host since it > probably will be on January 2. Are you hosting, Jessie? What time works? I am > completely open on the 2nd. > > 2. I think we should start collecting project ideas and put the list on the > wiki. Even though we don't have to have the list yet, we will need it soon, and > I don't want to lose track of all the great ideas people have already mentioned. > I think we should list many, many ideas so that people understand that a wide > range of subject areas and difficulty levels are acceptable. Joey has some ideas > below. James has had some great ideas. Here are a couple from me, not > extraordinarily innovative but perhaps acceptable? Instrument an existing driver > for fault management? Write a new SMF script or DTrace script to do something cool? > > If you want me to I will be happy to update the wiki page to tone down or remove > the discussion of categories and start a list of project ideas. Then anyone > could add to the list of ideas. > > joey wrote: > >> Teresa Giacomini ??: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Running a little behind, so I have not sent out yesterday's notes. But >>> we are going to have a meeting today at 10am PT. >>> >>> >> Sorry for my absence. >> >> I would like to update the progress from my part. >> >> 1. Wildcard >> >> Further discussion with some professors and community members, this >> category might include but not limit to the below projects: >> - Projects based on existing OpenSolaris features, such as DTrace, SMF, >> ZFS, xVM and so forth >> - Enhancement of current OpenSolaris projects >> - Porting OpenSolaris to new systems, esp. Embedded Processors & SoCs >> including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, x86 based Processors and SoCs >> - New OpenSolaris distribution, esp. based on Indiana project >> - Porting the current research project on other OSes to OpenSolaris >> >> 2. Device Driver >> >> Paul Lee has already sent out the email to the Device Driver development >> staffs and hope to collect all feedbacks and compile the device driver >> wish lists in next two week. >> >> Thanks, >> >>> Dial-in Info: >>> ------------- >>> 866-651-9314 >>> 865-525-0765 x44404 >>> p/c 1234403 >>> >>> I'll aim to send the latest rules before the meeting. >>> >>> T >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> awards-program mailing list >>> awards-program at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >>> >>> >> -- >> >> Joey Guo, University Program Manager >> >> Sun China Engineering & Research Institute >> >> Tel: (86)10-62673245 >> >> Mobile: (86)13701115218 >> >> >> >> http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo >> >> http://opentech.org.cn >> >> http://eri.prc/wiki/univ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> awards-program mailing list >> awards-program at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >> > _______________________________________________ > awards-program mailing list > awards-program at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM Fri Dec 21 14:17:15 2007 From: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM (Teresa Giacomini) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:17:15 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Today - 10am PT In-Reply-To: <476C35A1.4060901@sun.com> References: <476BF9C5.60909@sun.com> <476C2CB1.8040502@sun.com> <476C336E.6030706@Sun.COM> <476C35A1.4060901@sun.com> Message-ID: <476C3B6B.5020701@sun.com> Thanks Jesse. That would be great. Thanks Alta too. Why don't you go ahead and start a list of project ideas. We could even send a note out to a broader group with a link to the wiki and have them add their ideas too. Another thing that could be started now on the wiki is the FAQ. Folks could start putting up some of the questions and working on the answers. I am not sure if it will live on Genunix ultimately, but it is sure a good place to work these things out. I'd suggest two pages off the main awards page...one for ideas, one for FAQ. Jesse Silver wrote: > Hi there- > > I'd love to host on Jan 2nd. 4pm PT is good for me, but many other > times work as well if anyone has a conflict. > > Access info: > (866)230-6968 > Int'l Access/Caller Paid Dial In Number: (865)544-7856 > ACCESS CODE: 2192132 > > > Alta Elstad wrote: >> 1. We should decide now when our next meeting will be and who will host since it >> probably will be on January 2. Are you hosting, Jessie? What time works? I am >> completely open on the 2nd. >> >> 2. I think we should start collecting project ideas and put the list on the >> wiki. Even though we don't have to have the list yet, we will need it soon, and >> I don't want to lose track of all the great ideas people have already mentioned. >> I think we should list many, many ideas so that people understand that a wide >> range of subject areas and difficulty levels are acceptable. Joey has some ideas >> below. James has had some great ideas. Here are a couple from me, not >> extraordinarily innovative but perhaps acceptable? Instrument an existing driver >> for fault management? Write a new SMF script or DTrace script to do something cool? >> >> If you want me to I will be happy to update the wiki page to tone down or remove >> the discussion of categories and start a list of project ideas. Then anyone >> could add to the list of ideas. >> >> joey wrote: >> >>> Teresa Giacomini ??: >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> Running a little behind, so I have not sent out yesterday's notes. But >>>> we are going to have a meeting today at 10am PT. >>>> >>>> >>> Sorry for my absence. >>> >>> I would like to update the progress from my part. >>> >>> 1. Wildcard >>> >>> Further discussion with some professors and community members, this >>> category might include but not limit to the below projects: >>> - Projects based on existing OpenSolaris features, such as DTrace, SMF, >>> ZFS, xVM and so forth >>> - Enhancement of current OpenSolaris projects >>> - Porting OpenSolaris to new systems, esp. Embedded Processors & SoCs >>> including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, x86 based Processors and SoCs >>> - New OpenSolaris distribution, esp. based on Indiana project >>> - Porting the current research project on other OSes to OpenSolaris >>> >>> 2. Device Driver >>> >>> Paul Lee has already sent out the email to the Device Driver development >>> staffs and hope to collect all feedbacks and compile the device driver >>> wish lists in next two week. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>>> Dial-in Info: >>>> ------------- >>>> 866-651-9314 >>>> 865-525-0765 x44404 >>>> p/c 1234403 >>>> >>>> I'll aim to send the latest rules before the meeting. >>>> >>>> T >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> awards-program mailing list >>>> awards-program at opensolaris.org >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> >>> Joey Guo, University Program Manager >>> >>> Sun China Engineering & Research Institute >>> >>> Tel: (86)10-62673245 >>> >>> Mobile: (86)13701115218 >>> >>> >>> >>> http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo >>> >>> http://opentech.org.cn >>> >>> http://eri.prc/wiki/univ >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> awards-program mailing list >>> awards-program at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> awards-program mailing list >> awards-program at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > awards-program mailing list > awards-program at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program > From Alta.Elstad at Sun.COM Fri Dec 21 14:24:37 2007 From: Alta.Elstad at Sun.COM (Alta Elstad) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:24:37 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Today - 10am PT In-Reply-To: <476C3B6B.5020701@sun.com> References: <476BF9C5.60909@sun.com> <476C2CB1.8040502@sun.com> <476C336E.6030706@Sun.COM> <476C35A1.4060901@sun.com> <476C3B6B.5020701@sun.com> Message-ID: <476C3D25.4030708@Sun.COM> Does anyone have any suggestions for undergrad research? Perhaps the research part does not need to be seeded with ideas? Teresa Giacomini wrote: > Thanks Jesse. That would be great. Thanks Alta too. Why don't you go > ahead and start a list of project ideas. We could even send a note out > to a broader group with a link to the wiki and have them add their ideas > too. > > Another thing that could be started now on the wiki is the FAQ. Folks > could start putting up some of the questions and working on the > answers. I am not sure if it will live on Genunix ultimately, but it is > sure a good place to work these things out. > > I'd suggest two pages off the main awards page...one for ideas, one for FAQ. > > Jesse Silver wrote: >> Hi there- >> >> I'd love to host on Jan 2nd. 4pm PT is good for me, but many other >> times work as well if anyone has a conflict. >> >> Access info: >> (866)230-6968 >> Int'l Access/Caller Paid Dial In Number: (865)544-7856 >> ACCESS CODE: 2192132 >> >> >> Alta Elstad wrote: >>> 1. We should decide now when our next meeting will be and who will host since it >>> probably will be on January 2. Are you hosting, Jessie? What time works? I am >>> completely open on the 2nd. >>> >>> 2. I think we should start collecting project ideas and put the list on the >>> wiki. Even though we don't have to have the list yet, we will need it soon, and >>> I don't want to lose track of all the great ideas people have already mentioned. >>> I think we should list many, many ideas so that people understand that a wide >>> range of subject areas and difficulty levels are acceptable. Joey has some ideas >>> below. James has had some great ideas. Here are a couple from me, not >>> extraordinarily innovative but perhaps acceptable? Instrument an existing driver >>> for fault management? Write a new SMF script or DTrace script to do something cool? >>> >>> If you want me to I will be happy to update the wiki page to tone down or remove >>> the discussion of categories and start a list of project ideas. Then anyone >>> could add to the list of ideas. >>> >>> joey wrote: >>> >>>> Teresa Giacomini ??: >>>> >>>>> Hi folks, >>>>> >>>>> Running a little behind, so I have not sent out yesterday's notes. But >>>>> we are going to have a meeting today at 10am PT. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Sorry for my absence. >>>> >>>> I would like to update the progress from my part. >>>> >>>> 1. Wildcard >>>> >>>> Further discussion with some professors and community members, this >>>> category might include but not limit to the below projects: >>>> - Projects based on existing OpenSolaris features, such as DTrace, SMF, >>>> ZFS, xVM and so forth >>>> - Enhancement of current OpenSolaris projects >>>> - Porting OpenSolaris to new systems, esp. Embedded Processors & SoCs >>>> including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, x86 based Processors and SoCs >>>> - New OpenSolaris distribution, esp. based on Indiana project >>>> - Porting the current research project on other OSes to OpenSolaris >>>> >>>> 2. Device Driver >>>> >>>> Paul Lee has already sent out the email to the Device Driver development >>>> staffs and hope to collect all feedbacks and compile the device driver >>>> wish lists in next two week. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>>> Dial-in Info: >>>>> ------------- >>>>> 866-651-9314 >>>>> 865-525-0765 x44404 >>>>> p/c 1234403 >>>>> >>>>> I'll aim to send the latest rules before the meeting. >>>>> >>>>> T >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> awards-program mailing list >>>>> awards-program at opensolaris.org >>>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> Joey Guo, University Program Manager >>>> >>>> Sun China Engineering & Research Institute >>>> >>>> Tel: (86)10-62673245 >>>> >>>> Mobile: (86)13701115218 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo >>>> >>>> http://opentech.org.cn >>>> >>>> http://eri.prc/wiki/univ >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> awards-program mailing list >>>> awards-program at opensolaris.org >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> awards-program mailing list >>> awards-program at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> awards-program mailing list >> awards-program at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >> > > _______________________________________________ > awards-program mailing list > awards-program at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program From Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM Fri Dec 21 14:46:36 2007 From: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM (Teresa Giacomini) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:46:36 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Today - 10am PT In-Reply-To: <476C3D25.4030708@Sun.COM> References: <476BF9C5.60909@sun.com> <476C2CB1.8040502@sun.com> <476C336E.6030706@Sun.COM> <476C35A1.4060901@sun.com> <476C3B6B.5020701@sun.com> <476C3D25.4030708@Sun.COM> Message-ID: <476C424C.6090705@sun.com> I wonder if it would make sense to ask the Campus Ambassadors. I'd also like to ask each project/community to suggest one or two in their area. What do you think? Alta Elstad wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions for undergrad research? Perhaps the research > part does not need to be seeded with ideas? > > Teresa Giacomini wrote: > >> Thanks Jesse. That would be great. Thanks Alta too. Why don't you go >> ahead and start a list of project ideas. We could even send a note out >> to a broader group with a link to the wiki and have them add their ideas >> too. >> >> Another thing that could be started now on the wiki is the FAQ. Folks >> could start putting up some of the questions and working on the >> answers. I am not sure if it will live on Genunix ultimately, but it is >> sure a good place to work these things out. >> >> I'd suggest two pages off the main awards page...one for ideas, one for FAQ. >> >> Jesse Silver wrote: >> >>> Hi there- >>> >>> I'd love to host on Jan 2nd. 4pm PT is good for me, but many other >>> times work as well if anyone has a conflict. >>> >>> Access info: >>> (866)230-6968 >>> Int'l Access/Caller Paid Dial In Number: (865)544-7856 >>> ACCESS CODE: 2192132 >>> >>> >>> Alta Elstad wrote: >>> >>>> 1. We should decide now when our next meeting will be and who will host since it >>>> probably will be on January 2. Are you hosting, Jessie? What time works? I am >>>> completely open on the 2nd. >>>> >>>> 2. I think we should start collecting project ideas and put the list on the >>>> wiki. Even though we don't have to have the list yet, we will need it soon, and >>>> I don't want to lose track of all the great ideas people have already mentioned. >>>> I think we should list many, many ideas so that people understand that a wide >>>> range of subject areas and difficulty levels are acceptable. Joey has some ideas >>>> below. James has had some great ideas. Here are a couple from me, not >>>> extraordinarily innovative but perhaps acceptable? Instrument an existing driver >>>> for fault management? Write a new SMF script or DTrace script to do something cool? >>>> >>>> If you want me to I will be happy to update the wiki page to tone down or remove >>>> the discussion of categories and start a list of project ideas. Then anyone >>>> could add to the list of ideas. >>>> >>>> joey wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Teresa Giacomini ??: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi folks, >>>>>> >>>>>> Running a little behind, so I have not sent out yesterday's notes. But >>>>>> we are going to have a meeting today at 10am PT. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Sorry for my absence. >>>>> >>>>> I would like to update the progress from my part. >>>>> >>>>> 1. Wildcard >>>>> >>>>> Further discussion with some professors and community members, this >>>>> category might include but not limit to the below projects: >>>>> - Projects based on existing OpenSolaris features, such as DTrace, SMF, >>>>> ZFS, xVM and so forth >>>>> - Enhancement of current OpenSolaris projects >>>>> - Porting OpenSolaris to new systems, esp. Embedded Processors & SoCs >>>>> including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, x86 based Processors and SoCs >>>>> - New OpenSolaris distribution, esp. based on Indiana project >>>>> - Porting the current research project on other OSes to OpenSolaris >>>>> >>>>> 2. Device Driver >>>>> >>>>> Paul Lee has already sent out the email to the Device Driver development >>>>> staffs and hope to collect all feedbacks and compile the device driver >>>>> wish lists in next two week. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Dial-in Info: >>>>>> ------------- >>>>>> 866-651-9314 >>>>>> 865-525-0765 x44404 >>>>>> p/c 1234403 >>>>>> >>>>>> I'll aim to send the latest rules before the meeting. >>>>>> >>>>>> T >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> awards-program mailing list >>>>>> awards-program at opensolaris.org >>>>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> Joey Guo, University Program Manager >>>>> >>>>> Sun China Engineering & Research Institute >>>>> >>>>> Tel: (86)10-62673245 >>>>> >>>>> Mobile: (86)13701115218 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo >>>>> >>>>> http://opentech.org.cn >>>>> >>>>> http://eri.prc/wiki/univ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> awards-program mailing list >>>>> awards-program at opensolaris.org >>>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> awards-program mailing list >>>> awards-program at opensolaris.org >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >>>> >>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> awards-program mailing list >>> awards-program at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> awards-program mailing list >> awards-program at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >> > _______________________________________________ > awards-program mailing list > awards-program at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program > From anil.verve at gmail.com Fri Dec 21 17:18:15 2007 From: anil.verve at gmail.com (Anil Gulecha) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:48:15 +0530 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Today - 10am PT In-Reply-To: <476C424C.6090705@sun.com> References: <476BF9C5.60909@sun.com> <476C2CB1.8040502@sun.com> <476C336E.6030706@Sun.COM> <476C35A1.4060901@sun.com> <476C3B6B.5020701@sun.com> <476C3D25.4030708@Sun.COM> <476C424C.6090705@sun.com> Message-ID: <148d59250712211718ia82b0ddo7676baf71951701d@mail.gmail.com> On 12/22/07, Teresa Giacomini wrote: > I wonder if it would make sense to ask the Campus Ambassadors. I'd also > like to ask each project/community to suggest one or two in their area. > What do you think? > Hi, You can bank on us to spread the word out to universities. However, I think the ideas will come from the OS community/projects as they're the one who understand what the missing pieces are, that the academia can work on (apart form ideas that the faculty/students come up with and are endorsed by the organizers) Cheers Anil From Alta.Elstad at Sun.COM Fri Dec 21 17:24:02 2007 From: Alta.Elstad at Sun.COM (Alta Elstad) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:24:02 -0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Today - 10am PT In-Reply-To: <148d59250712211718ia82b0ddo7676baf71951701d@mail.gmail.com> References: <476BF9C5.60909@sun.com> <476C2CB1.8040502@sun.com> <476C336E.6030706@Sun.COM> <476C35A1.4060901@sun.com> <476C3B6B.5020701@sun.com> <476C3D25.4030708@Sun.COM> <476C424C.6090705@sun.com> <148d59250712211718ia82b0ddo7676baf71951701d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <476C6732.8020700@Sun.COM> Great! People do not necessarily have to research areas that the community has already recognized as missing pieces. People could do research in other areas and submit contest entries in other areas. If work is done around projects already being discussed, participants have to be careful not to submit anything that was done in collaboration with any Sun employee. Anil Gulecha wrote: > On 12/22/07, Teresa Giacomini wrote: >> I wonder if it would make sense to ask the Campus Ambassadors. I'd also >> like to ask each project/community to suggest one or two in their area. >> What do you think? >> > > Hi, > > You can bank on us to spread the word out to universities. However, I > think the ideas will come from the OS community/projects as they're > the one who understand what the missing pieces are, that the academia > can work on (apart form ideas that the faculty/students come up with > and are endorsed by the organizers) > > Cheers > Anil > _______________________________________________ > awards-program mailing list > awards-program at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program From Joey.Guo at Sun.COM Fri Dec 21 17:56:36 2007 From: Joey.Guo at Sun.COM (joey) Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:56:36 +0800 Subject: [awards-program] Meeting Today - 10am PT In-Reply-To: <476C35A1.4060901@sun.com> References: <476BF9C5.60909@sun.com> <476C2CB1.8040502@sun.com> <476C336E.6030706@Sun.COM> <476C35A1.4060901@sun.com> Message-ID: <476C6ED4.5000407@sun.com> Jesse Silver ??: > Hi there- > > I'd love to host on Jan 2nd. 4pm PT is good for me, but many other > times work as well if anyone has a conflict. That time will be 8am Jan 3rd, Beijing time. It's fine for me. Regards, Joey > > Access info: > (866)230-6968 > Int'l Access/Caller Paid Dial In Number: (865)544-7856 > ACCESS CODE: 2192132 > > > Alta Elstad wrote: >> 1. We should decide now when our next meeting will be and who will host since it >> probably will be on January 2. Are you hosting, Jessie? What time works? I am >> completely open on the 2nd. >> >> 2. I think we should start collecting project ideas and put the list on the >> wiki. Even though we don't have to have the list yet, we will need it soon, and >> I don't want to lose track of all the great ideas people have already mentioned. >> I think we should list many, many ideas so that people understand that a wide >> range of subject areas and difficulty levels are acceptable. Joey has some ideas >> below. James has had some great ideas. Here are a couple from me, not >> extraordinarily innovative but perhaps acceptable? Instrument an existing driver >> for fault management? Write a new SMF script or DTrace script to do something cool? >> >> If you want me to I will be happy to update the wiki page to tone down or remove >> the discussion of categories and start a list of project ideas. Then anyone >> could add to the list of ideas. >> >> joey wrote: >> >>> Teresa Giacomini ??: >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> Running a little behind, so I have not sent out yesterday's notes. But >>>> we are going to have a meeting today at 10am PT. >>>> >>>> >>> Sorry for my absence. >>> >>> I would like to update the progress from my part. >>> >>> 1. Wildcard >>> >>> Further discussion with some professors and community members, this >>> category might include but not limit to the below projects: >>> - Projects based on existing OpenSolaris features, such as DTrace, SMF, >>> ZFS, xVM and so forth >>> - Enhancement of current OpenSolaris projects >>> - Porting OpenSolaris to new systems, esp. Embedded Processors & SoCs >>> including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, x86 based Processors and SoCs >>> - New OpenSolaris distribution, esp. based on Indiana project >>> - Porting the current research project on other OSes to OpenSolaris >>> >>> 2. Device Driver >>> >>> Paul Lee has already sent out the email to the Device Driver development >>> staffs and hope to collect all feedbacks and compile the device driver >>> wish lists in next two week. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>>> Dial-in Info: >>>> ------------- >>>> 866-651-9314 >>>> 865-525-0765 x44404 >>>> p/c 1234403 >>>> >>>> I'll aim to send the latest rules before the meeting. >>>> >>>> T >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> awards-program mailing list >>>> awards-program at opensolaris.org >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> >>> Joey Guo, University Program Manager >>> >>> Sun China Engineering & Research Institute >>> >>> Tel: (86)10-62673245 >>> >>> Mobile: (86)13701115218 >>> >>> >>> >>> http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo >>> >>> http://opentech.org.cn >>> >>> http://eri.prc/wiki/univ >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> awards-program mailing list >>> awards-program at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> awards-program mailing list >> awards-program at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > awards-program mailing list > awards-program at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/awards-program > -- Joey Guo, University Program Manager Sun China Engineering & Research Institute Tel: (86)10-62673245 Mobile: (86)13701115218 http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo http://opentech.org.cn http://eri.prc/wiki/univ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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