[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris counter

[Jim Grisanzio]

Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> 
>>>[1] Will try to blog about the week's events soon...
>>
>>
>>Nice write up, Glynn: http://www.gnome.org/~gman/blog/28072006
> 
> 
> Oh, I haven't finished yet - that's just blog 1 of 10 or something. I'm
> thinking of deep diving on some of them, but just a case of finding some
> time...

Cool. I know Sun sent a lot of people to OSCON, so the more info the 
better. Were there any non-Sun OpenSolaris community people there?


>>I see Stephen O'Grady hinted about interesting conversations in the Sun 
>>Open Source BOF: http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/001979.html
>>He seems to be holding back here, though. :)
> 
> 
> Actually in the beer session I had with him, he sounded pretty positive
> about where Sun was at, and indeed most people at the conference had
> similar thoughts. They *love* the fact that Sun is trying to reinvent
> itself, and definitely feel like we're going the right way. Though
> obviously, you have to balance that up with the 'Why didn't they release
> it as GPL' types of comments...


Yah, he's a good guy with a good feel for what's going on. I'm hoping 
that as we go to more of these conferences the issues with GPL will go 
away and people accept CDDL.



>>It seems that we are all finding that people outside the OpenSolaris 
>>community are generally positive about the whole thing and are thirsty 
>>for really basic information to get involved but that the lack of 
>>information is many times getting in the way. Or confused messaging from 
>>Sun is getting in the way. We can't control what Sun says, but we can 
>>certainly improve the information we offer about OpenSolaris, and I like 
>>the suggestions you offer in your blog. The booth comments were 
>>particularly interesting.
> 
> 
> Yeah, a lot of the Sun people who attended feel like we're missing the
> train a little bit - it's totally not lost though, and I'm personally
> pretty excited about things going forward because we're realizing where
> we can do better and not just resting on our laurels.


Missing the train in what way? Regarding the booth?


>>I really believe the situation we are in is normal, and represents a 
>>opportunity for us all to communicate more, hold more events ourselves, 
>>participate at more industry events, etc. It takes a lot of time, but I 
>>think you guys at OSCON did a great job.
> 
> 
> Yep, absolutely - and looking forward to more discussions while at MPK
> this week :)


Cool. Tell everyone I said hello. Feel free to use my office. It's empty. :)

Jim
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