It will be useful to observe the Mozilla community update their Mozilla Public License v1.1 (The Register, Mozilla Updating the MPL, Cnet News).
I haven't been involved in any licensing lately, so I think I'll try to follow this process. I remember when we were plowing through our own licensing gyrations for OpenSolaris. GPL, BSD, MPL, Apache, Write-Your-Own. And a few others. Back and forth. My goodness, it was so long and painful for so many reasons. So, I'm interested in understanding Mozilla's processes and goals for this update and comparing that to what we did five years ago. For OpenSolaris, we settled on writing the Common Development and Distribution License,
which is based on MPL v1.1.
Some CDDL information: FAQ on opensolaris.org, CDDL background, Redline diffs (pdf) between MPL v1.1 & CDDL v1.0, Free and Open Source Licensing at Sun (pdf).
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I am looking forward to doing a quick video conference call next week with the guys in the Moscow OpenSolaris User Group. It will be at 2:30 in the morning for me, so I think I will make it a quick chat. Meeting details here. MOSUG info here. Special thans to Vladimir Legeza for the invite. Hopefully, some day I will be able to get to Russia. Never been. Always wanted to go.
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The Japanese OpenSolaris community
continues to grow. It's now the 3rd largest community in the
OpenSolaris world following the Spanish and Indian communities, it's
the 3rd most active, and Tokyo is the #1 city outside the United States
for sending traffic to opensolaris.org. The community in Japan also
continues to diversify as well with general users mixing with kernel developers
and globalization engineers. In fact, this diversity is driving the
need to run concurrent sessions for beginners and advanced developers and users
at community events.
There are multiple parts to the community in Japan:
There is a lot going on. I try to track what I can
at this tag.
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Ales posted some updated application resource files to be localized for auth.opensolaris.org and repo.opensolaris.org. The auth application is already deployed and translated into 25 languages, so it will be great to expand on those community contributions. But there will be an entirely new version of the SCM Console deployed at repo.opensolaris.org later this month (the live version is not localized yet), so we are looking forward to releasing that application in as many languages as possible. Information on contributing to the website localization project.
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There will be an OpenSolaris Hot Topics Seminar on IPS at Sun's office in Yoga Friday night March 19th. See announcement details here in English and Japanese. Registration is required. The talks will be in Japanese only. So, if you are Japanese or speak Japanese and want to contribute to OpenSolaris, stop by and participate in the sessions. Here are directions to Sun in Yoga in English and Japanese with photos.
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Here is an update on the upcoming Tech Days conferences in Russia and India. If you plan to attend the events, let us know now they go by posting to advocacy-discuss at opensolaris dot org (subscribe to the mailman list here, view and post via the web forum here).
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"Nirvana can be translated as freedom. Freedom from views. And in
Buddhism all views are wrong views. When you get in touch with reality,
you no longer have views. You have wisdom. You have a direct encounter
with reality. And that is no longer called views." -- Thich Nhat Hanh
All views are wrong views. I just love that. Imagine if we all dumped
our views -- or at least questioned our views long enough to let some
humility flow in instead of defending our views to the death or blindly
following those who assert and spin their views more boldly than we do.
Imagine how much more open minded we'd be. Such a relief it would be.
Have you heard of Thich Nhat Hanh? He's a remarkable man to have
survived such a horrible war and to have helped so many people caught
in the middle of a decade of madness. He's Vietnamese. But he transcends
race and culture. He's a Buddhist. But he transcends religion. He's
84. But he transcends age. He seems like a really nice guy,
too. I wonder if I could get to France to meet him one day. I wonder what I'd say ...
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The OpenSolaris community plans four sessions at the Tokyo Open Source Conference
on Friday and Saturday. See announcements from Shoji
and Masafumi
and Reiko
Saito, who also posted her slides. These sessions will involve not
only dives into the technology, such as ZFS and new features in the
OpenSolaris distribution, but also how to contribute localizations and
get involved in the community generally. There will be a booth, so stop
by and get some CDs and shirts and other stuff. If you miss the conference, you can catch up with things in March when we'll have more community events at the Sun Yoga office. A Linux technical meeting is planned for the 13th, and then there will be 3 sessions of OpenSolaris later in the month on the 27th.
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Reminder: when we moved from the old tonic database to the new
auth.opensolaris.org application for account management, all users had
to verify their accounts on the new system. That involved logging in,
following a couple of prompts, and saving. That's it. Painless.
Multiple mails were sent to everyone. But, as is human nature, a few
people have still not validated their accounts. So, if you haven't
verified your account on the new system, you are now in the Inactive state
and that means you won't be able to log in or put back code or vote or
post to the forums or edit the site. Just ping website-admin at
opensolaris dot org and we'll reset your account. That's a private
list, by the way, and we have people in the US, Europe, and Asia
managing user accounts so mails only sit on that list for a very short
period of time.
Here are more contacts for OpenSolaris Help.
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Masafumi Ohta, Hiroshi Chonan, and Hisayoshi Kato did a lightning talk about the Japan OpenSolaris
Community at the Tokyo
Developers Summit. Japanese video. Good photos. :)
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Masafumi Ohta, Hiroshi Chonan, and Hisayoshi Kato did a lightning talk about the Japan OpenSolaris
Community at the Tokyo
Developers Summit. Japanese video. Good photos. :)
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This is very cool.
Robert Antoni, who is a contributor in the OpenSolaris
Internationalization & Localization Community, posted mail to
website-discuss and i18n-discuss about a really interesting contribution. He localized the
XWiki application resources file
into the Catalan language. So after that contribution is integrated
into XWiki, we'll be able to pick it up when we update our
implementation of XWiki as well. And that will help the OpenSolaris
community localize opensolaris.org into Catalan. So,
both communities benefit from Robert's contribution. Really excellent.
Auth is already available in the Catalan language, and the new SCM
Console will be as well when we deploy sometime in March. It will be
good to have the underlying XWiki interface localized as well.
More information about
contributing to the localization of opensolaris.org and
contributing to the entire OpenSolaris project.
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To make formal voting on the OpenSolaris project painfully easy, Bill
Rushmore
has been updating the voting application
and he deployed
the new version today. Voters will no longer need SSH keys
since poll is now integrated with the auth database, and voting will be
done via a
new web front end with encryption so no more command line. Those were
the two main complaints previously. So, now voters can just go to poll.opensolaris.org, click on
a poll (if you are not logged in the system will prompt you to log in),
and then point/click on a ballot. Easy. The application is
open to current Core Contributors for testing for one week. I updated
the website project's announcements
and roadmap
pages. Here is information on the 15 applications that make up opensolaris.org.
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I'm spending some time cleaning my blog these days. I have about 3,000
posts in this thing, and many of the older ones have dead links and
broken (or ugly) layouts. So, some shaping up is in order. Fixing
(well, deleting, actually) a million broken links will only encourage
me to link a whole lot less, too.
I also got rid of all the graphics in the right nav and shortened it
substantially. It was just becoming a mess of branding confusion with
pointers everywhere. So, I deleted ruthlessly and tried to focus on my core projects and some general interest links that are
related. In terms of graphics, I'll go with two brands only:
OpenSolaris since that's what I do every day and Oracle since they pay
me to do it. It's much simpler that way. You know where I work and what
I do. That's it. Also gone are all the template rules and/or boxes,
most of which were created with the use of different colors. It's just
clean now. White. I got sick of the yellow-ish brown color of the
default template, which I've been using for about three years now. If I
want to play around with a different feel here and there, I can now
change the color of the entire face of the page easily with just one
adjustment.
It's not quite spring, but close enough. More to do but this is the direction.
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There's more discussion from Oracle about the
OpenSolaris User Groups on the osug-leaders list (
the thread starts here). OSUG leaders out there please feel free to jump in to the conversation.
What's interesting -- and potentially filled with new opportunities --
is not only the challenge of connecting the OpenSolaris User Groups
(which represent only part of the entire OpenSolaris community) to a
new corporate parent but also it seems that there will be one Oracle
team managing a meta program for all user groups -- so that's
the existing Oracle User Groups plus Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris, etc.
That dynamic could open up some cool possibilities for the OpenSolaris
User Groups to interact much more with different global communities.
Even now the OSUGs mix quite freely with other communities from a
variety of technologies, but perhaps this new program will help
accelerate that expansion by offering new connections. We'll have to
see how this develops. The first communication from Oracle is here.
OSUGs are sponsored by the OpenSolaris Advocacy Community. Go here to for proposal information for new OSUGs.
By the way, we are now almost at 10K images on flickr
from the OpenSolaris community. The vast majority of those photos are
from OSUGs running their own meetings and/or participating at
conferences around the world.
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