[ogb-discuss] [opensolaris-summit] My comments (very subjective) on proposed Summit topics

[Jim Grisanzio]

Philip Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 10:53:20AM +0900, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>> ...
>> I agree as well. Many people have worked hard to build a diverse 
>> community open to all. I think we've come a long way, too, given the 
>> restrictions and dependencies we've been working with all alone. These 
>> things take time, and I think Indiana will help us grow to a new level 
>> of diversity. Diversity has been the intention all along from our very 
>> earliest planning meetings four years ago.
> 
> oooboy.. there's another 10-point buzzword again.

You like that, eh?

> When we successfully pair "diversity" with "community", the resulting
> fusion of synergized energies is certain to enhance the value-add of our
> open-source paradigm!
> 
> :-P
> 
> Open Solaris is not going to do well because of "diversity".


Really? So we only want coders (as Darren intimated)? And in which geo 
would those coders live?


> It will succeed if we keep good people, motivated to keep doing what they
> are good at, within overall processes that keep sane and good engineering
> design as the underlying framework for what they do.


I basically agree. And I've said that the coders are the core and always 
will be. But to have a viable global community we also need great 
diversity in skills, and we need to be able to work across cultures and 
languages and locations.


> Thats why this sub-topic came up. Because good document writers, etc. arent
> usually particularly gifted at good engineering principles. Whereas
> good coders... no, make that /excellent coders/... are. 

That's fine. I generally agree. But we need the doc writers too. And the 
users. And the marketers. And the program managers. And the students. 
And the professors. And the admins. And the app developers. And the 
[insert whoever else wants to be a part of the community here].

Jim
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