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

[Philip Brown]

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.

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".
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.

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.