I’m attending the OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit, held in Santa Cruz, CA, May 3-4, 2008. I’ve been working with and participating in various online communities for a long time, but I’m new to this one, and have a lot to learn about the people, technologies, history, present realities, and possible futures. This weekend is an excellent opportunity to start filling in some of those gaps.
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Continue reading The OpenSolaris Developers’ SummitAfter a busy weekend at the OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit in Santa Cruz, Lynn, Jeff, and I drove up California’s gorgeous Highway 1 to San Francisco to attend CommunityOne.
The keynote session was kicked off by Ian Murdock, who talked about open source, with help from Jonathan and illustrations from Hugh McLeod.
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This was all by way of introducing opensolaris 2008.05.
Rich Green, Jim Hughes, and Jeff Bonwick went all Wile E. Coyote on some disk drives to prove the resilience of the ZFS file system (note the name on the anvil).
I spent most of the afternoon filming sessions (footage which will be publicly available as soon as I have time to edit it) and then… it was time to party!
Storage developers gathered in San Jose for SNIA’s annual conference, featuring many Sun speakers. Here’s a quick overview of what we talked about.
Jeff Bonwick speaks at SNIA’s Storage Developers’ Conference on the coming revolution in storage, and why resistance is futile.
Sun’s Brian Wong speaks at Sun Tech Days Milan on why OpenSolaris is a natural for storage developers.
