[cab-discuss] nomination

[Garrett D'Amore]

Okay, now that precedent seems well and truly set, I will declare that:

1) I nominate myself for an OGB position.
2) I accept said nomination.
3) I offer the following position statement:

I am an employee of a SPARC OEM partner,  where I work on Solaris and
OpenSolaris (as well as other embedded products).   I also have
contributed to OpenSolaris in a personal capacity.  I've worked with
Solaris since 2.5.

My expertise is kernel software, especially device drivers,
cryptography, mobile platform support, and networking (802.3 and 802.11
in particular).    I've had my hand in various other bits as well.

I have built kernels, many of which panic, and many of which don't. 
Some of which have made other people panic.  I also was responsible for
suggesting the name of a Sun product which is the Greek word for
"panic".  (I also wrote the kernel software for said product.)

I've contributed code to a number of Open Source projects over the years.

My position on Open Solaris is that I want to continue to contribute and
innovate, and enable others to do so.  I want to avoid things that would
fracture the community, or forking the project.  I want to continue to
enable business to build solutions on the Open Solaris platform.  For
this reason I'm somewhat opposed to GPL or other licenses that are viral
in nature for components that are part of the core platform.  (The
kernel and critical supporting software, for example.)  I want to try to
work with hardware vendors to get them to recognize the benefit of
providing "first class" and "first party" support for OpenSolaris with
their products.

4) I'd also like to nominate the following persons for OGB leadership,
but I have no idea if they are interested in the said positions
(hopefully I spelled all the names right -- apologies if I have not).  I
also don't know if there is any limit on how many nominations I can
make, so here's my full list, in no particular order:

    * Alan Coopersmith
    * Jurgen Keil
    * Joerg Schily
    * Rich Lowe
    * Alan DuBoff
    * Casper Dik
    * Bill Sommerfeld

I'd be happy to see any of the above named persons elected to the OGB. 
Again, no idea how many of them are interested in it.

-- 
Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/
Phone: 951 325-2134  Fax: 951 325-2191