[ogb-discuss] Proposal for Virtual Client Community

[Ray Strong]

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." 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

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