Is it just me, or is this an oxymoron?
CommunityOne: OpenSolaris Launch Party
After the general party at Moscone Center (footage to come), there was a somewhat smaller party at a nearby bar/restaurant.
We had quite a bit to celebrate – and quite a bit to celebrate it with (above)!
A number of cool non-Sun people were present, including ^ Jay Edwards (one of the handful of engineers who runs one of my favorite online services, Twitter). I had to have a photo taken with him, to impress all my Italian twithead friends.
^ Jesse Silver, who had done such a fantastic job organizing the Developers’ Summit, and Silona Bonewald, whom I’ll be seeing more of at next week’s Grid & Cluster conference. Silona is wearing our trendy green and blue opensolaris wristbands.
^ Jim Huges unites opensolaris (temporary tattoo logo on his forehead) with MySQL’s dolphin mascot. Hey, I didn’t get one of those! (Nor did I get one of the very cool “Build your community” t-shirts from CommunityOne, wah! But I do have two different opensolaris t-shirts.)
Jeff Bonwick and Jim play an intense game of pool.
Learn Italian in Song: Il Campo Delle Lucciole
The Field of Fireflies*Ligabue |
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| Questa è la tua prossima fermatadove io t’aspetto gia da un po’dove sta tranquilla che non ci sarà nessuno
so che arriverai emozionata e mi hai detto solo “perché no?” voglio che mi balli una canzone nuova nuova proprio qui che si può ritornello: nel campo delle lucciole ci siam gia detti tutto tacendo nel campo delle lucciole tutte le luci che vanno e vengono nel campo delle lucciole sotto la vigna a fare la pace con Dio siamo proprio fuori dalla festa ma la festa vera siamo noi dicono che il premio lo prendiamo un’altra vita voglio che ci ridi in questo posto perché qui le stelle contano e l’erba è solamente una parte del [ritornello] dicon tutti che la vita è corta basta che ti giri un attimo e capisci che non riesci a farci stare tutto ma questa è la tua prossima fermata dove io ti aspetto un altro po’ dove se ti porti dietro te sarà perfetto proprio qui che si può [ritornello] non va più via |
This is your next stopwhere I’ve already been waiting for you for some timewhere you can relax because there will be no one
I know you will arrive excited and you said only “Why not?” I want you to dance a song for me new, new right here because you can refrain: In the field of fireflies where we already said everything silently In the field of fireflies all the lights that come and go In the field of fireflies beneath the vine to make peace with God We’re certainly crazy but the real party is us they say we’ll get the prize – another life I want you to laugh here because here the stars count and the grass is only part of the [refrain] They all say that life is short it’s enough that you turn around for a moment and you understand that you can’t fit in everything but this is your next stop where I will await you a while longer where if you bring [only] yourself it will be perfect right here where we can [refrain] don’t go away again |
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| * Lucciole is also slang for prostitutes, I suppose because they shine at night.if you find this useful and want more, let me know! | |||
The OpenSolaris Developers’ Summit
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.
^ top: Tim Cramer and Jim Walker
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CommunityOne: Keynote
After 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!
