[opensolaris-summit] Minutes of the 9/18 Summit Meetings

[Shawn Walker]

On 19/09/2007, Darren.Reed at sun.com <Darren.Reed at sun.com> wrote:
> John Plocher wrote:
>
> >Shawn Walker wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I tend to agree that I hope that this is
> >>more about problem solving than hacking...
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >I see room for both - especially if we (Sun) can arrange for
> >a reasonable set of high end systems to play with.
> >
> >While some topics (politics/governance/ARCs/...) won't be impacted
> >much by the compute infrastructure at the conference, I can see other
> >tracks taking a more hands-on dig in and play with code attitude.
> >
> >
>
> As originally advertised, the event was to be about discussion
> relating to the project itself - it wasn't billed as a "hackathon" -
> and more specifically, to discuss Indiana.
>
> If we're going to be more generic and even think about making
> it a coding/hacking session then we need to readvertise it as
> such.
>
> If there aren't going to be a lot of these events held then I can
> definately see there being room for using this (and other)
> opensolaris summits as the means to get people together and
> look at problems we've got and how to solve them.  However
> it might be more appropriate for _that_ kind of event to be
> held during the week, rather than the weekend, so that
> (some) people don't feel like they're working a 7 day week.
>
> I don't know about others, but this was one issue I had to settle
> with myself doing opensolaris stuff on the weekend, as being
> a Sun person makes it very easy to look at this weekend as
> being "work time".

...and from those of us who aren't at Sun, we thank you for that
sacrifice. I would not have been able to attend if it had been during
the week as I'm independent and not doing this on behalf of my
employer.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. " --Donald Knuth