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OpenSolaris Developer Summit May '08

The second OpenSolaris Developer Summit was held at UCSC on 3rd and 4th of May 2008. Sponsored by Sun Microsystems and hosted by The Baskin School of Engineering, the summit is not a traditional conference or exhibition, but rather an in-person, collaborative working session to plan the future of OpenSolaris.

Details of this event including hotel, location and schedule are available on the Developer Summit webpage. If you have any questions about the summit, please email opensolaris-summit@opensolaris.org. Also, if you haven't already done so, please join the opensolaris-summit alias when registering.

If you would like to suggest topics for a break-out session or help with the organization of the summit, opensolaris-summit@opensolaris.org join our mailing list, . While some of the break-out sessions will be organized during the summit, we will have space to schedule specific topics in advance of the weekend.

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Schedule

Presenting our Summit Schedule. Please comment on the Summit Alias. If you'd like to lead one of the sessions or add a session that currently doesn't appear, please use the alias.


Time E2.180
(100 person, classroom) 		E2.192
(60 person, classroom) 		E2.194
(60 person, classroom) 		E2.599
(40 person, meeting) 		E2.506 (Unconference Room)
Friday, May 2
20.00 - ? Reception at Scotts Valley Hilton
**Dinner**, Drinks, Discussion
Saturday, May 3
09.00 - 10.00 REGISTRATION & Breakfast at UCSC
10.00 - 10:30 Welcome - Tim Cramer (With special guest, UCSC Acting Dean of Engineering Michael Isaacson)
10.30 - 11.30 Introducing the New OpenSolaris (Glynn Foster)
11.30 - 12.30 Introducing IPS and Package Repositories (Walker, et al..)
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.30 Special Guest Session: ksh93 & ast - David Korn and Glenn Fowler
14.35 - 15.30 Packaging cont...Prioritize the list of missing packages we need to make OpenSolaris competitive
15.30 - 15.45 Break
15.45 - 17.00 OGB Town Hall
17.00 - 22.00 Special Off-Site Event
Team Building
Dinner & Drinks
BRING A JACKET (it's windy at the beach)
Sunday, May 4
9.00 - 10.00 Breakfast at UCSC
10.00 - 11.10 Special Advocacy Panel -- The OpenSolaris Fishbowl: Helping the world get involved in the community.
(Moderator: Jim Grisanzio)
11.15 - 12.15 Documentation (Olsen/Lundquist?) OpenSolaris Printing (Jacobs) Project Nightingale, Porting Songbird to OpenSolaris (Peng/Lee/Mays/Lau) Defect Tracking and OpenSolaris (swalker/Fenwick)
12.15 - 13.15 Lunch
13.15 - 14.10 Naming/Branding Guidelines (John Plocher) Desktop Technologies for OpenSolaris (Erwann Chénedé & Darren Kenny) Optimizing for OpenSolaris (Darryl Gove) Open HA Cluster - Overview, Status, Plans ahead (Solter/Frueauf)
14.15 - 15.10 SCM move to outside committers (Mike Kupfer) OpenSolaris Testing & Performance Tools (Jim Walker) Games on OpenSolaris: "Ultimate OpenSolaris Gaming Rig" (Lee/Mays) Belenix - Current status and Plan ahead (Shiv) (MOVED BELOW)
15.10 - 15.25 Break
15.25 - 16.20 ARC process for repository contributions (Plocher) Storage - Past growth and future plans (Cheeney) HCL Program overview - next steps with OpenSolaris (Baker) + The Audio framework: 4Front's OSS/Latest in Device Driver Support, Hardware Detection, Fault/Power Management, and Thin Clients (Dev) Belenix - Current status and Plan ahead (Shiv)
16.25 - 17.45 UPDATE: OGB Round 2: Electric Boogaloo
17.45 - 18.00 Summit Wrap-Up
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Session Abstracts

Session Abstract
Storage

The OpenSolaris storage community is really growing. During this discussion we plan to share our community growth experiences. We also plan to discuss the new technologies and how OpenSolaris is becoming a premier storage OS.

Project Nightingale: Porting Songbird to OpenSolaris Discussion and demo of Songbird, a cross-platform desktop media player based off of Mozilla's Firefox/XULRunner platform. We'll talk about the porting effort, the current state of Songbird, and its future roadmap. We'll demo some of the unique features of Songbird and how it can be extended via add-ons and webpage integrations to mash-up media and web experiences.
Open HA Cluster This session will give an overview of the HA Clusters community and the Open High Availability Cluster source code base. Learn about the active projects, such as HA-xVM, and upcoming efforts, such as Open HA Cluster on Indiana, and help brainstorm future directions. What features would you like to see in the OpenSolaris high availability cluster code?
HCL Program Overview The HCL is 15 years old - I'll review our progress to date and ask for help in planning a really sweet 16th

birthday for next year. In particular I'm interested in how the community can help populate the HCL with not just systems but also more useful technical content spanning v12n, power management, FMA etc

Defect Tracking and OpenSolaris Come to discuss the background of Solaris defect management, current

interoperability with OpenSolaris and general future directions.

Games on OpenSolaris Using OpenSolaris doesn't mean you have to leave behind your favourite games. Contrary to popular belief, OpenSolaris today can play many popular games. The platforms represented include native, Windows, and even GNU/Linux games. We'll show you the tricks to getting games up and running and explore some of the the issues facing OpenSolaris as a game platform. We'll discuss improvements on the way and making it easier for the community to port and develop games. Of course, we'll also be demoing games!
SCM for Outside Committers In this session we'll go over how Mercurial and Subversion can be used today on opensolaris.org. We'll also talk about the SCM Migration project and the plans for opening up the ON and SFW consolidations to non-Sun committers.
OpenSolaris Printing The OpenSolaris Summit Printing session is intended to be an interactive discussion of current printing solutions available in OpenSolaris. There will be a brief demonstration of Presto and print-service(1m) support in snv_87 and later followed by an open discussion of the direction that we should/will take with printing support in OpenSolaris. The discussion is expected to include required features, desired features, priorities, delivery methodology and community involvement, but will go wherever it takes us. Please come prepared to voice your opinions, concerns, and desires (try to keep it to printing related topics).
OpenSolaris Testing and Performance Tools Testing is an important part of software development. In order to maintain the quality of the OpenSolaris code base, we need to perform extensive testing before new code can be integrated. The OpenSolaris Testing session discusses the current testing resources available on opensolaris.org including open source test suites, self-service testing and the test farm. In addition, we will have an open discussion on performance tools led by James Howard and Bob Kasten from Intel.
Desktop Tech Quick state of the Solaris desktop discussion/presentation followed by brainstorming around community priorities in light of the Solaris Desktop gaps document (http://opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/documents/desktop_gaps/) and how to leverage Solaris unique features on the desktop.
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Attendance List

Summit registration is effectively FULL. If you think you should attend, please email Jesse.Silver@sun.com before registering. We have a few spots left, but they may have caveats attached (Sunday only, etc..). Thank you!

Name Company Affiliation Email Profile Phone Community Affiliation Location
1. Glynn Foster Sun Microsystems glynn.foster -at- sun.com glynnfoster +64-21-2229651 Indiana, Desktop, OGB Scotts Valley Hilton
2. Ian Murdock Sun Microsystems ian.murdock -at- sun.com Indiana Scotts Valley Hilton
3. Jesse Silver Sun Microsystems jesse.silver -at- sun.com silverguru +1-877-868-6937 Indiana Scotts Valley Hilton
4. Sara Dornsife Sun Microsystems sara.dornsife -at- sun.com SaraD +1-512-297-4600 Indiana, Advocacy Scotts Valley Hilton
5. Alan Coopersmith Sun Microsystems alan.coopersmith -at- sun.com alanc X Window System, OGB, Indiana Scotts Valley Hilton
6. Joe G Sun Microsystems joe.g -at- sun.com BOSUG
7. Alta Sun Microsystems alta.elstad -at- sun.com 408.404.5062 drivers, nemo, fault management, contest
8. Shawn Walker - swalker -at- opensolaris.org swalker Distribution, At-Large
9. Jim Grisanzio Sun Microsystems jim.grisanzio -at- sun.com jimgris +81-90-6005-3208 Governance, Globalization, Website, Advocacy Scotts Valley Hilton
10. Stephen Lau Songbird stevel -at- opensolaris.org donuthole +1-415-237-0184 Desktop, OGB, Nightingale Scotts Valley Hilton
11. Stuart Kreitman Sun Microsystems stuart.kreitman -at- sun.com stukreit +1-650-575-7772 X Window System, Sunray
12. Vincent Cordrey Boeing vcordrey76395 at CrimsonSystems org - Kerberos, Security Redwood Croft B&B
13. Randy Fishel Sun Microsystems randy.fishel -at- sun.com +1-650-786-5149 Solaris Power Management
14. Jim Walker Sun Microsystems james.walker -at- sun.com Testing, Indiana Scotts Valley Hilton
15. Jyri Virkki Sun Microsystems jyri.virkki -at- sun.com Web Stack
16. Vineeth Pillai Sun Microsystems vineeth.pillai -at- sun.com SAM/QFS
17. Ken Mays Blastwave.org kenmays at blastwave.org 678-517-6555 Desktop, Nightingale Scotts Valley Hilton
18. Thorsten Frueauf Sun Microsystems thorsten.frueauf at sun.com HA Clusters, Open HA Cluster Scotts Valley Hilton
19. Erwann Chénedé Sun Microsystems erwann at sun.com Erwann - Desktop
20. Alex Leverington HRsmart nessence at gmail.com Alex 214-282-5614 Indiana, Pkg, Caiman
21. Barbara Lundquist Sun Microsystems barbara.lundquist at sun.com 415-375-8279 Indiana
22. Jyothi Srinath Sun Microsystems jyothi.srinath at sun.com 408-306-6911 Indiana,IPS
23. Michelle Olson Sun Microsystems michelle.olson at sun.com Documentation, Academic & Research
24. Jeff Cheeney Sun Microsystems cheeney at sun.com jscusc Storage Community
25. Roland Mainz - roland.mainz at nrubsig.org gisburn - ksh93-integration, shell, X Window System
26. Mark Carlson Sun Microsystems mac at sun.com 303-223-6139 Storage Community
27. Simon Phipps Sun Microsystems webmink at opensolaris.org webmink +1 650 352 6327 Advocacy, OGB
28. Kuldip Oberoi Sun Microsystems koberoi at sun.com koberoi +1-408-644-1370 Indiana, Advocacy
29. John Sonnenschein Terra Cognita Software johnsonnenschein at gmail.com johnnysunshine +1-250-564-7682 Emancipation, Ports
30. Albert Lee JHU ACM trisk at acm.jhu.edu +1-626-347-9756 Desktop, Nightingale, SFE Scotts Valley Hilton
31. Eric Boutilier Sun Microsystems eric.boutilier at sun.com eboutilier +1-630-285-7728 Website infrastructure and CG; Chicago UG;
Build systems - esp. SFE/pkgbuild & SFW; Distros CG
32. Jay Cotton Sun Microsystems jay.cotton at sun.com [1] +1-650-786-0841 X11 ; X.org; graphics;
power management 		Scotts Valley Hilton
33. Dave Stewart Intel Corporation david.c.stewart at intel.com davest +1-503-712-6013 intel-platform, Advocacy Scotts Valley Hilton
34. Shiv Nokia Siemens Networks shivakumar.gn at gmail.com +91-9916137015 Belenix, BOSUG Scotts Valley Hilton
35. James Liu Sun Microsystems james.liu at sun.com +1-650-786-5179 Device Drivers, Advocacy  ???
36. Dev Mazumdar 4Front Technologies dev at opensound.com 310 202 8530 Open Sound System  ???
37. Nicholas Solter Sun Microsystems nicholas.solter at sun.com HA Clusters / Open HA Cluster  ??
38. Terri Molini Sun Microsystems terri.molini at sun.com TMolini 408 406 9021 Advocacy home
39. Narendra Kumar Sun Microsystems narendra.kumar at sun.com Caiman, IPS
40. Saurabh Vyas Sun Microsystems saurabh.vyas at sun.com BOSUG, Caiman, IPS
41. Al Hopper Logical Approach al at logical-approach.com 972.379.2133 General
42. Pradhap Devarajan Sun Microsystems pradhap (at) sun.com BOSUG, Documentation
43. Dave Miner Sun Microsystems dave.miner at sun.com 781-442-0463 Caiman,Indiana Scotts Valley Hilton
44. Lynn Rohrer Sun Microsystems lynn.rohrer at sun.com rohrer 303-272-7755 Storage Scotts Valley Hilton
45. Harry Lu Sun Microsystems harry.lu at sun.com +86-10-62673870 Desktop Scotts Valley Hilton
46. Paul Mei Sun Microsystems paul.mei at sun.com +86-10-62673010 Desktop Scotts Valley Hilton
47. Mike Kupfer Sun Microsystems mike.kupfer at sun.com 650/786-5082 ON, Tools, SCM Migration local
48. John Plocher Sun Microsystems john.plocher at sun.com 650/786-7604 ARC, OGB, Distro Scotts Valley Hilton
49. John Beck Sun Microsystems john.beck at sun.com 650-786-8078 OGB, ON local
50. Tim Cramer Sun Microsystems tim.cramer at sun.com 408-431-4711 local
51. Jörg Schilling Fraunhofer FOKUS joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de joerg +49 30 3463 7296 SchilliX cdrtools ... Scotts Valley Hilton
52. Deirdré Straughan Sun Microsystems deirdre.straughan at sun.com deirdres 303-957-2403 Community Specialist & Videoblogger not sure yet
53. Alfred Peng Sun Microsystems alfred.peng at sun.com +86-10-6267-3115 Desktop, Nightingale, Mozilla DTrace Scotts Valley Hilton
54. Rob Lord Songbird rob -at- songbirdnest.com Nightingale Local
55. Danek Duvall Sun Microsystems danek.duvall at sun.com +1-900-HOT-LIPS ON, IPS Local
56. Linh Hoang UCSC linh at ucsc dot edu Local
57. Hugo Rivero Sun Microsystems hugo.rivero at sun.com 781-287-5384 ISV Adoption Scotts Valley Hilton
58. Max Alt Intel maxim.alt at intel.com 415-5183738 Local
59. Dan Roberts Sun Microsystems dan.roberts at sun.com 650-472-9554 Scotts Valley Hilton
60. Marty Duey Sun Microsystems marty.duey at sun.com 303.223.6141 Indiana Scotts Valley Hilton
61. Peter Tribble ProQuest peter.tribble at gmail.com +44 1223 271301 Install/Sysadmin Scotts Valley Hilton
62. Geeta Krishna Intel geetanjali.krishna at intel.com 503-712-6169 Wireless technologies Scotts Valley Hilton
63. Michal Bielicki VoiceWorks michal.bielicki -at- voiceworks.pl cypromis +48 602 441 887 Software Porters / Advocacy / PLosug
Brosug / SFE		 Scotts Valley Hilton
64. Darren Kenny Sun Microsystems darren.kenny at sun.com +353-1-8199115 Desktop, NWAM Scotts Valley Hilton
65. Dermot McCluskey Sun Microsystems dermot.mccluskey at sun.com +353-1-8199196 Desktop Scotts Valley Hilton
66. David Korn AT&T Research dgk at research.att.com dgk 212-228-4975 ksh Scotts Valley Hilton
67. Glenn Fowler AT&T Research gsf at research.att.com gsf ast Scotts Valley Hilton
68. Norm Jacobs Sun Microsystems norm.jacobs at sun.com 847-272-8358 Printing Presto SFW  ???
70. Chris Baker Sun Microsystems chris.baker at sun.com 650 743 4327 HCL Scotts Valley Hilton
71. Bonnie Corwin Sun Microsystems bonnie.corwin at sun.com 719 277 6964 Tools, Website
72. Anil Gulecha Student, JSSATE anil.verve -at- gmailcom xxx Caiman, Belenix, Bosug
73. Henry Jen Sun Microsystems henry.jen -at- sun.com slowhog 408 416 4555 General
74. Ashok Raj Intel Corporation ashok.raj -at- intel.com 503-712-5966 Intel-platform Scotts Valley Hilton
75. Fiona Duan Sun Microsystems Fiona.Duan at sun.com 86-010-62673300 Beijing OpenSolaris User group
76. Sriram Narayanan Thoughtworks sriramNRN at gmail.com +919845390881 Bangalore Open Solaris User Group  ???
77. Kelly Nishimura Sun Microsystems kelly.nishimura at sun.com 650 786 4680 Indiana  ???
78. Suzanne Brossard MOH brossard at indra.com Storage/Testing Scotts Valley Hilton
79. David Lindt Sun Microsystems david.lindt at sun.com Documentation, Indiana
80. Tim Sparlin Sun Microsystems tim.sparlin at sun.com 650 786-5391
81. Bob Kasten Intel Corporation robert.a.kasten -at- intel.com 503-712-6054 Intel-platform Scotts Valley Hilton
82. Terrence Miller Sun Microsystems terrence.miller at sun.com C++
83. Meena Kaul-Basu Sun Microsystems meenakshi.kaul-basu at sun.com 650-786-4182 HA Clusters Open HA Cluster, Indiana Local
84. Sanjay Nadkarni Sun Microsystems sanjay.nadkarni at sun.com 720-238-5149 Caiman, Indiana Scotts Valley Hilton
85. K.Gopinath UCSC gopi <at> soe.ucsc.edu academic
86. Cynthia Eastham Sun Microsystems cynthia.eastham at sun.com 650-786-5758 ON, Printing Scotts Valley Hilton
87. Philip Torchinsky Sun Microsystems philip.torchinsky at sun.com +7 921 4152705 Scotts Valley Hilton
88. Sang Shin Sun Microsystems sang.shin at sun.com 781-405-8021
89. Trond Norbye Sun Microsystems trond.norbye at sun.com Scotts Valley Hilton
90. Colin Charles MySQL/Sun Microsystems colin -at- mysql.com bytebot +6012-204-3201 MySQL, SAMP, Distro support
91. Roman Strobl Sun Microsystems roman.strobl at sun.com +420724966906
92. Philippe Hanrigou ThoughtWorks http://ph7spot.com/about/contact_me Ruby Troubleshooting San Jose (CA)
93. Brad Vaughan Sun Microsystems brad.vaughan -at- sun.com Cupertino (CA)
94. Sam Nicholson - scion at cabin-john.net +1.301.229.8816 Scotts Valley Hilton
95. Dan McDonald Sun Microsystems danmcd -at- sun.com http://www.kebe.com/~danmcd/ +1 781 442 3490 Networking, Security, ON Palo Alto
96. Sriram Natarajan Sun Microsystems sriram.natarajan -at- sun.com Web Server 7, PHP for Open Solaris San Jose, CA
97. Gregg Sporar Sun Microsystems gregg dot sporar at sun dot com 512-963-0059 Scotts Valley Hilton
98. Brian Leonard Sun Microsystems william dot leonard at sun dot com 650-255-7767 Scotts Valley Hilton
99. Chris Kampmeier Sun Microsystems ckampmeier at sun dot com Multi-platform IPS and Middleware Apps Scotts Valley Hilton
100. Valerie Fenwick Sun Microsystems valerie dot fenwick at sun dot com bubbva ON, Security Local, Sunday AM only
101. Scott Lehman Sun Microsystems scott dot lehman at sun dot com 303-883-5307 OpenxVM Scotts Valley Hilton
102. Inyoung Cho Sun Microsystems inyoung.cho@sun.com 408-410-4399
103. Doris Chen Sun Microsystems doris.chen@sun.com 408-859-4011
104. Derek Cicero Sun Microsystems derek.cicero at sun dot com
105. Alan DuBoff Sun Microsystems alan.duboff at sun dot com
106. Matt Ingenthron
(attending Saturday only) 		Sun Microsystems matt.ingenthron at sun dot com blog about +1-310-242-6439 Web Stack Project downtown Palo Alto
107. Bob Gianni Sun Microsystems bob.gianni at sun dot com Desktop, XServer, Sun Ray, Visualization local
108. Jim Howard Intel Corp. james.d.howard(at)intel(dot)com 503-712-8608 Intel platform advocacy, porting, tuning Scotts Valley Hilton
109. Wenling Chen Sun Microsystems wenling dot chen at sun dot com +1 303-562-0403 OpenSoaris/Solaris G11n Scotts Valley Hilton
110. George Wilson Sun Microsystems george dot wilson at sun dot com +1 650-786-8696 ZFS
111. Rahul Basu Lynbrook High School rahul dot basu at yahoo dot com OpenSolaris
112. Ben Rockwood Joyent benr (at) cuddletech dot com * Fremont, CA
113. Judith Lilienfeld Sun Microsystems judith dot lilienfeld at sun dot com
114. Terri Wischmann Sun Microsystems terese dot wischmann at sun dot com Advocacy
### REGISTRATION FULL Email jesse.silver@sun.com
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Car Pooling

If you have access to a car, or would like to join up with an existing car pool from any location, please add your name and details below -

Name Spaces in Car Wanting a Lift (yes/no) Coming from Arrival Time Departure Time Transport Secured
Dan McDonald2-3no: offeringPalo Alto (and Los Altos/Mountain View if needed) Sunday morning to Scotts Valley Sunday night return
Alta1no: offeringSan Jose
Jyothi3no:offeringFremont/Menlo Park
James1no:offeringSunnyvale/Cupertino
Plocher6no:offeringMenlo Park/San Jose Palo Alto to Scotts Valley after OGB dinner Friday night Sunday Afternoon Carpooling with Gman and Stevel from Palo Alto to Scotts Valley Friday Night
Marty Duey (#60)2 or 3no:offeringSan JoseArriving SJC on Friday at 2p PT Leaving for SFO Sunday mid-afternoon
Shawn WalkerSan Jose7:25pm at SJC Y
stevelNot anymore! plocher FTW!
Michal BielickiYesSFO International Airport Friday 4:20 PM Sun Eve to C1 (May 9th 1:51 PM SFO)N
Jörg SchillingYesSFO International AirportFriday 7:20 PMMay 6th 9:30 PMN
John SonnenscheinYesSFO International AirportFriday 1:30 PMMay 6th 6:30 PMN
Peter TribbleYesSFO International AirportFriday 1:50 PMSun Eve to C1N
Dev MazumdarYesSan JoseFriday 8:20pm at SJCMay 4, 8:40 PM SJC N
AlbertYesSan JoseFriday 4:30pm at SJCSunday Eve to C1 (May 6th 1:31 PM SFO)N
Alex Leverington?yes: car-share?San Jose Friday 9pm SFO; Tuesday 4pm N - shuttle or share car rental w/anyone w/similar schedule SanJose->Summit->Moscone->SFO
Deirdrénomay beSFOFriday TBD C1 Shuttle to SFO Sundaynot sure
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Topic Suggestions

If you have topic suggestions, please add them below -

Name Topic Suggestion What do you want to achieve related to this topic this weekend?
Barbara Lundquist Documentation discussion What docs are done, what's planned, what suggestions do people have for docs?
Thorsten Frueauf OHAC discussion Understanding the Indiana distribution model and how Open HA Cluster can fit in. Understanding the new package system and how existing consolidation fit in.
Dave Stewart SCM move to outside committers (Not sure who would present this from Sun) Give an update of the progress moving the SCM system so we can have Committers who are not employees of Sun. Technical update preferred but a project schedule should happen too.
John Plocher OGB "in person meeting" offsite/drinking/brainstorming/enabling/doing...
Alfred Peng, Albert Lee, Ken Mays, Stephen Lau Project Nightingale Getting Songbird 0.5 up and running on OpenSolaris. Can be as short as a 15-20 minute demo, or longer as needed.
Albert Lee Games on OpenSolaris The issues facing the mythical "OpenSolaris gaming rig", and of course, demos (Q3, ScummVM, UT2004, HL2/Portal... suggestions welcome). Anyone else interested in taking the reins (or just helping)?
Sriram Natarajan Site Hosting on Open Solaris Why any one should choose Open Solaris to host web sites ? Anyone interested in taking the reins (or just helping)? (-benr, Happy to help.)
Glynn Foster, Jyri Virkki Branding packages With the introduction of the OpenSolaris, and the fact that other distributions are likely to want to derive themselves from the package base, it makes sense to be easily able to swap branding packages in to replace other branding - what's the best way of doing this, and what interfaces can we provide to the distro contructor to make this easier?
Ben Rockwood Directory & Auth Systems Discussion around Kerberos, LDAP, AD, et al, and their future in OpenSolaris.
Ben Rockwood Solaris Roadmap Discussion regarding Sun's future plans for the Solaris OE, including OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, Solaris Next, and SX:CR/DE releases.
Ben Rockwood The Future of Jumpstart Jumpstart / NetBoot could do with a facelift. I propose a roundtable discussion about Solaris provisioning, needs and desires, and new ideas to improve the existing Jumpstart methodology.
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Pen Portraits

Please write a few lines about yourself (or someone else!)

# Name Affiliation Pen Portrait Submitted by
1 Glynn Foster Sun Microsystems Joined Sun Microsystems straight after college in 2000, and worked in both desktop engineering teams and currently Solaris marketing, working on Project Indiana. My current hobbies are drinking and brewing beer.
5 Alan Coopersmith Sun Microsystems Part of Sun's Solaris Desktop team since 1999, where I originally did a year in Release Engineering for CDE/OpenWindows/X11 before joining the X11 team as a developer. I've contributed code to XFree86 and X.Org for Sun, and led the project to bring the Xorg server into Solaris. Now I'm leading the project to get the Solaris X code released to the OpenSolaris community, handling the X packages for Project Indiana, and serving on the OpenSolaris Governing Board. alanc
8 Shawn Walker - I am a Software Developer, System Analyst, hobby artist, amateur photographer, and long-time Technology Enthusiast. I have been contributing to and participating in the OpenSolaris community since launch. I work in Overland Park, KS (USA) as a software developer for a local company and have spent my free time contributing to a variety of open source projects. swalker
10 Stephen Lau Songbird I used to sit in #opensolaris and act as a Bugster gateway for richlowe. Since I left Sun I primarily sit on #opensolaris, abuse my powers as an op and kick people (both friends and trolls) and justify it by saying I'm on the OGB.
14 Jim Walker Sun Microsystems I started my software engineering career working at IBM for NASA on the Space Shuttle project, then developed software for various R&D projects for NASA and the DOE at Johnson Engineering. I then developed vision systems for the injection molding industry at Avalon Imagining. After that, I developed device level firmware at Set Engineering. In 2002, I joined Sun Microsystems and led testing for the UFS, MTBUFS and ZFS file system projects as part of the Solaris Quality Engineering organization. Now I am the OpenSolaris Test Lead and project lead for OpenSolaris Test Suites, OpenSolaris Self-Service Testing and the OpenSolaris Test Farm and the main leader of the OpenSolaris Testing Community. I live in Boulder, Colorado and help lead the local Front Range OpenSolaris User Group.
17 Ken Mays Blastwave.org Old-time enthusiast for building the world's largest Open Source software development and package management repositories specifically designed for Solaris/OpenSolaris-based distros. Part of my spare time is working on cars, designing things, or porting OpenGL-based apps to Solaris.
18 Thorsten Frueauf Sun Microsystems Joined Sun in March 1999, started within Professional Services, since 2004 developing Sun Cluster agents, since Februrary 2007 Staff Engineer in Availability Engineering.
33 Dave Stewart Intel Corportation Manager since 2006 of Team OpenSolaris at Intel, part of the Open Source Technology Center in System Software Division, Software and Solutions Group. Our team implements OpenSolaris support for new Intel processors, power on of new chips and systems, implementation of new Intel technologies such as power management and virtualization, writing and porting tools for Solaris, and writing device drivers for Intel desktop, mobile and server devices. Our team is located in Hillsboro, Oregon, Beijing and Shanghai. Dave started in Unix development in 1979, and been working in it off and on since then. davest
34 Shivakumar(Shiv) Nokia Siemens Networks I co-ordinate the activities of BOSUG. I am part of the BeleniX team, working towards bringing the joy of opensolaris technologies to the desktop. In my professional life, I have in the recent past been working on Radio Access technologies for the telecom major, Nokia Siemens Networks. Shiv
35 James Liu Sun Microsystems Semi-oldtimer at Sun working with ISVs and now IHVs, for, what, around 13 years now. In fact, I'm working with Intel these days, mostly with their LAN Access Division these days and helping with driver development. (Hi Dave!) At the last summit, I had a LOT of fun fishing with Stuart K. and Mike D. at the Santa Cruz Wharf early in the morning (before sessions started). I plan to do that again. Folks are welcome to wake up early and fish. I'll supply all gear and no license needed on CA Saltwater Public Piers. gdude
47 Mike Kupfer Sun Microsystems I'm one of the 3 (soon to be 5) OpenSolaris infrastructure developers. Before that I worked for 12 years on the Solaris implementation of NFS. Partial list of interests: distributed computing, cooking, photography, bicycling, and meditation (not necessarily in that order). kupfer
48 John Plocher Sun Microsystems Started out at Microport Systems in the mid '80s doing SysV on '286s and was peripherally involved with the Jolitz'sBSD work. I moved over to Sun in '89 to work on X/NeWS and the SysVr4/BSD work that became Solaris 2.0, worked on Netra admin, Netscape and Clustering... Jumped ship to go to an internet yellow pages startup (BigBook), and when it crashed came back to Sun to work on system admin tools (SMC, Lockhart ...). Started out as an ARC intern/member/chair and eventually took on the full time job of supporting the ARC process itself. I'm spending my time now trying to redefine the role of the ARCs in light of OpenSolaris, OpenSource and changing product development dynamics. When not obsessed with work, our family spends its weekends restoring the 92 year old railroad caboose in our back yard. plocher
50 Tim Cramer Sun Microsystems I'm a 15 year Sun Microsystems vet. I've been an engineer in the compiler group, worked on Java for years, and then engineering in the Java performance group. Switched to management of the Java Performance Group, then Director of the NetBeans engineering group, Senior Director of the Java Tools group, Senior Director of the JavaFX Mobile,Content Delivery, Quality, JavaFX TV, Blu-Ray, User Experience and Documentation group, and finally the Senior Director for the OpenSolaris Core engineering group. I started less than a month ago. tjcramer
51 Jörg Schilling Fraunhofer FOKUS I am working at Fraunhofer FOKUS, a german government owned research organization. When working at H.Berhtold AG, I started using Sun machines in March 1985 (first Sun in Europe), H. Berhold AG was the third biggest Sun OEM in the 1980s. I started writing drivers for SCSI, custom keyboards, segment drivers and a COW filesystem. I am working with/on OpenSource since the mid 1980s. I had a Sun at Home since May 1986 and I created the first OpenSolaris based distro (June 17th 2005). joerg
62 Geeta Krishna Intel Corportation Wireless Technology Lead, Team Open Solaris, part of the Open Source Technology Center in System Software Division, Software and Solutions Group. Our team works with Sun enginers on new technology enabling and path finding for new processors, chipset and platforms. Joined the team in 2007. Previously worked on Distributed Systems and HA software technolgies at Veritas Software and Sequent Computers. geetak
70 Chris Baker Sun Microsystems I've been involved with Unix on x86 since a 25MHz 386 was classed as a workgroup server. More recently I was accused of being the seventh member of the "Secret Six". My day job is Product manager for Solaris on x86 where I also guide the development of the HCL program. bakerc
74 Ashok Raj Intel Corportation Kernel Lead, Team Open Solaris, part of the Open Source Technology Center in System Software Division, Software and Solutions Group. Our team works with Sun enginers on new technology enabling and path finding for new processors, chipset and platforms. Joined the team in 2006. Previously worked on Linux as maintainer of CPU hotplug project. Lead the team on initial prototype and implementation of Infiniband support for Linux. Worked as kernel I/O lead at Pyramid technologies and Sequent Computers on various IO technologies ashokr
81 Bob Kasten Intel Corportation Kernel Lead, Team Open Solaris, part of the Open Source Technology Center in System Software Division, Software and Solutions Group. Our team works with Sun enginers on new technology enabling and path finding for new processors, chipset and platforms. Joined the team in 2006. bak
95 Dan McDonald Sun Microsystems Project lead & co-architect of IPsec technologies in Solaris and OpenSolaris. Prior to my 12 years at Sun, I worked at the US Naval Research Lab on IPv6 and IPsec (NRL did one of the first implementations of both technologies). I try and keep one foot planted in networking and the other in security. danmcd
112 Ben Rockwood Joyent Director of Systems for Joyent, Cloud Computing Infrastructure provider and largest production customer facing Nevada installation known. Runs cuddletech.com, assists with Genunix, former OGB board member, and father of two, husband of my beloved wife Tamarah.
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