From benr at cuddletech.com  Thu Mar 30 14:22:01 2006
From: benr at cuddletech.com (Ben Rockwood)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:22:01 PST
Subject: [immigrants-discuss] Welcome one and all!
Message-ID: <14287873.1143757351451.JavaMail.suncom@oss2>

So here it is, the OpenSolaris Immigrants Community.  Pretty sweet, eh?

For details on what this group is about please see the following:

- Announcement: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7323&tstart=0
- Community Page: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/immigrants/
- Blog: http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=591

There are several resources that you might find useful:
- planetsolaris.org
- docs.sun.com
- cvs.opensolaris.org
- www.genunix.org
- blogs.sun.com
- ... in addition to our beloved opensolaris.org.

I'm also pleased to announce that Tom Haynes has agreed to come aboard as a leader of this community, in addition to Adam Leventhal who first proposed this community, and myself.
I strongly suggest that you check out Tom's blog either by going direct to it (http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tdh) or reading it on the PlanetSolaris.org aggrigator.


Welcome aboard and let the fun begin.

benr.
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From stefanparvu14 at yahoo.com  Fri Mar 31 02:13:03 2006
From: stefanparvu14 at yahoo.com (Stefan Parvu)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:13:03 PST
Subject: [immigrants-discuss] Re: Welcome one and all!
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Message-ID: <25507126.1143800013106.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>

Actually I kind of don't like the name (immigrants) ... Are you offering Solaris Green Cards too ?
A better name would have been Migration.

stefan
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From benr at cuddletech.com  Fri Mar 31 03:22:00 2006
From: benr at cuddletech.com (Ben Rockwood)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:22:00 -0800
Subject: [immigrants-discuss] Re: Welcome one and all!
In-Reply-To: <25507126.1143800013106.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>
References: <25507126.1143800013106.JavaMail.suncom@oss1>
Message-ID: <442D10D8.7010508@cuddletech.com>

Stefan Parvu wrote:

>Actually I kind of don't like the name (immigrants) ... Are you offering Solaris Green Cards too ?
>A better name would have been Migration.
>  
>
This points was made when the proposal was presented several months 
ago.  Please review that discussion on OS-Discuss for the full scoop.

Beyond that, as stated in the announcements, "migration" has a certain 
conentation associated with it that we don't want.  Frankly, neither 
name is quite right imho, but when I was pressed for something better I 
came up blank.  We're trying to not only provide a new community but 
also to set a diffrent tone for that community and boring old 
"migration" doesn't fit it.  In particular, migration implies formal 
commitment, your moving from one thing to another.  Immigrant, on the 
other hand, implies someone starting down a path, checking it out as 
they go, but free to come or go as they please.  This group isn't just 
for people moving from RHEL to Solaris, is also for people running 
Gentoo who want to check out OpenSolaris to see what the buzz is about, 
or FreeBSD users to see what OpenSolaris can offer, etc, etc.

As for green cards... I'm sure Sara could arrange something for us.  
Thats a pretty good idea actually.  I'll look into it! :)

benr.


From stefanparvu14 at yahoo.com  Fri Mar 31 03:37:19 2006
From: stefanparvu14 at yahoo.com (Stefan Parvu)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:37:19 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [immigrants-discuss] Re: Welcome one and all!
In-Reply-To: <442D10D8.7010508@cuddletech.com>
Message-ID: <20060331113720.27319.qmail@web26612.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>


--- Ben Rockwood <benr at cuddletech.com> wrote:

> Stefan Parvu wrote:
> 
> >Actually I kind of don't like the name (immigrants)
> ... Are you offering Solaris Green Cards too ?
> >A better name would have been Migration.
> >  
> >
> This points was made when the proposal was presented
> several months 
> ago.  Please review that discussion on OS-Discuss
> for the full scoop.
> 
> Beyond that, as stated in the announcements,
> "migration" has a certain 
> conentation associated with it that we don't want. 
> Frankly, neither 
> name is quite right imho, but when I was pressed for
> something better I 
> came up blank.  We're trying to not only provide a
> new community but 
> also to set a diffrent tone for that community and
> boring old 
> "migration" doesn't fit it.  In particular,
> migration implies formal 
> commitment, your moving from one thing to another. 
> Immigrant, on the 
> other hand, implies someone starting down a path,
> checking it out as 
> they go, but free to come or go as they please. 
> This group isn't just 
> for people moving from RHEL to Solaris, is also for
> people running 
> Gentoo who want to check out OpenSolaris to see what
> the buzz is about, 
> or FreeBSD users to see what OpenSolaris can offer,
> etc, etc.

just kidding... When you see first the name you think
something else ... 


> As for green cards... I'm sure Sara could arrange
> something for us.  
> Thats a pretty good idea actually.  I'll look into
> it! :)

Hehe, that might be a good idea, I think.

Cheers,
Stefan