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Pilot Conversation: 3/4/05
CAB Sun's Participants 
 -- Original Message --
 Subject: [Opensolaris-discuss] CAB: Sun's Participants
 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:33:57 -0800
 From: James Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio@Sun.COM>
 To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
 Guys ... Sun has chosen two participants for the OpenSolaris Community
 Advisory Board:

• Casper Dik, Senior Staff Engineer
• Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist
   We have CAB 4 members now. I'll announce the 5th person to the pilot
   community as soon as I can. Please remember, these names are
   confidential at this time. Sun will announce the CAB as a group
   publically later this month after we have had some conference calls and
   mapped out a preliminary agenda. The first CAB in-person meeting is
   tentatively scheduled for April 4 in San Francisco, where the CAB will
   begin the process of writing its own charter to address and advise on a
   variety of community issues.
   Casper Dik, Senior Staff Engineer
   Casper Dik joined Sun Microsystems, Inc. in 1995 as part of the Network
   Security Group to help secure the internal network of Sun. As Sun is
   predominantly run on Sun hardware and software, he soon realized that
   the best way to secure the internal network was to improve Sun's
   software. After a short stay in Sun Labs, he moved to Solaris
   engineering, meddling in all things security relevant. His main
   contributions to the Solaris 10 OS are fine-grained privileges, a.k.a.
   "Process Rights Management." He's a long time contributor to the Solaris
   community through Usenet, Sun Managers and other venues, often acting as
   an informal channel between engineering and customers.
   Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist
   Simon Phipps is the Chief Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems,
   responsible for expounding and explaining the 'big picture' of connected
   computing solutions. In particular, his industry experience gives him
   unique insight into how open technologies like Unix, Java, XML and
   TCP/IP build together with newer ideas like wireless and internet
   services to form the foundation for connected computing in the massively
   connected society in the 21st century. He has explained these ideas
   extensively at international events such as JavaOne, Seybold, Software
   Development, O'Reilly conferences, XML World and many more.
   A computer industry insider of 20+ years standing, Simon has worked in
   such hands-on roles as field engineer, programmer and systems analyst as
   well as being involved at a strategic level in some of the world's
   leading computer companies. Fascinated by the idea of 'action at a
   distance', he worked with OSI standards in the eighties, on the first
   commercial collaborative conferencing software in the nineties, and
   helped introduce both Java and XML at IBM. He joined Sun in mid-2000 and
   is now responsible for articulating their open source strategy, and for
   telling the story behind the product stories and standards initiatives.
   He's at home on most computing platforms and has both OpenSolaris and
   Linux systems alongside many others in his lab.
   He holds a degree in electronic engineering and is a Chartered Engineer
   and Member of the British Computer Society.
   Simon lives in the UK with his wife and three children but is based in
   Silicon Valley in the US. With membership of airline frequent flyer
   clubs thus taken care of, he is free to indulge in his favourite
   pastimes of reading, writing poetry, collecting music, taking
   photographs and playing with cool toys.
   His personal home page and blog is http://www.webmink.net and Sun's
   software home page is at http://www.sun.com/software. He can be reached
   via e-mail as simon.phipps@sun.com
   -- Original Message --
   Subject: Re: [Opensolaris-discuss] CAB: Sun's Participants
   Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:39:01 -0800
   From: Alan DuBoff <Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com>
   Reply-To: Alan DuBoff <Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com>
   Organization: Solaris x86 Engineering
   To: James Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio@Sun.COM>, opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
   On Friday 04 March 2005 09:33 am, James Grisanzio wrote:
   > Guys ... Sun has chosen two participants for the OpenSolaris Community
   > Advisory Board:
   >
   > * Casper Dik, Senior Staff Engineer
   > * Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist
   Excellent! 2 great people on the Sun side!
   Now, who will that open source community mystery person be....????;-)
   --
   Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems
   Solaris x86 Engineering
   -- Original Message --
   Subject: Re: [Opensolaris-discuss] CAB: Sun's Participants
   Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:58:33 +0000
   From: Sean Sprague <sks@cvok.co.uk>
   To: James Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio@Sun.COM>
   CC: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
   Jim,
   > Guys ... Sun has chosen two participants for the OpenSolaris Community
   > Advisory Board:
   >
   > * Casper Dik, Senior Staff Engineer
   > * Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist
   Being the cynical bastard that I am, I naturally expected
   this phase to take a lot longer (if not overrun) ;-) Thus, I
   am pleasantly surprised by this announcement.
   Top choices of Sun-side CAB members! They will do us all
   proud, I am certain.
   Sean.
   -- Original Message --
   Subject: Re: [Opensolaris-discuss] CAB: Sun's Participants
   Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:05:21 -0500
   From: Dennis Clarke <blastwave@gmail.com>
   Reply-To: Dennis Clarke <blastwave@gmail.com>
   To: Sean Sprague <sks@cvok.co.uk>
   CC: James Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio@Sun.COM>, opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
   On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:58:33 +0000, Sean Sprague <sks@cvok.co.uk> wrote:
   > Jim,
   >
   > > Guys ... Sun has chosen two participants for the OpenSolaris Community
   > > Advisory Board:
   > >
   > > * Casper Dik, Senior Staff Engineer
   > > * Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist
   >
   I certainly knoe who Casper Dik is from years of being in the
   comp.unix.solaris group.  He has probably answered thousands of
   questions.
   Then again, so has Rich.
   I see a correlation here
   Perhaps the community member will be from the yahoo active list?
   Dennis
   -- Original Message --
   Subject: Re: [Opensolaris-discuss] CAB: Sun's Participants
   Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:19:17 +0000
   From: Sean Sprague <sks@cvok.co.uk>
   To: Dennis Clarke <blastwave@gmail.com>
   CC: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
   Dennis Clarke wrote:
   > On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:58:33 +0000, Sean Sprague <sks@cvok.co.uk> wrote:
   >
   >>Jim,
   >>
   >>
   >>>Guys ... Sun has chosen two participants for the OpenSolaris Community
   >>>Advisory Board:
   >>>
   >>>* Casper Dik, Senior Staff Engineer
   >>>* Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist
   >>
   >
   > I certainly knoe who Casper Dik is from years of being in the
   > comp.unix.solaris group.  He has probably answered thousands of
   > questions.
   And questioned thousands of "answers" ;-)
   > Then again, so has Rich.
   Ditto to the above. Looks like the CAB has strength in depth
   thus far.
   > I see a correlation here
   >
   > Perhaps the community member will be from the yahoo active list?
   I believe that you often need someone present in "boards"
   whose sole purpose is to rock the boat and be generally
   awkward. Mike Cox appears to be becoming available in
   April..... ;-)
   (Apols - I'm just off for some ritual self-mutilation for
   even suggesting that prospect)
   Sean.
   -- Original Message --
   Subject: Re: [Opensolaris-discuss] CAB: Sun's Participants
   Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:27:24 +0000
   From: Simon Phipps <Simon.Phipps@Sun.COM>
   To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
   On Mar 4, 2005, at 18:58, Sean Sprague wrote:
   > Jim,
   >
   >> Guys ... Sun has chosen two participants for the OpenSolaris
   >> Community Advisory Board:
   >> * Casper Dik, Senior Staff Engineer
   >> * Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist
   >
   > Being the cynical bastard that I am, I naturally expected this phase
   > to take a lot longer (if not overrun) ;-) Thus, I am pleasantly
   > surprised by this announcement.
   >
   > Top choices of Sun-side CAB members! They will do us all proud, I am
   > certain.
   Thank-you for the vote of confidence, Sean!  While I am not
   historically a Solaris insider, I've been focussed on open source for
   many years and have been taking a special interest in the issues facing
   OpenSolaris. I've written a fair bit about CDDL - see
  http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink/Weblog?catname=%2FOpenSolaris
   for recent postings and http://www.softwarefreedom.com/ for selected
   essays.
   I'm very keen to meet as many OpenSolaris folk as possible, both
   outside and inside Sun, and am particularly keen to hear (in
   confidence) if you ever think Sun is doing or about to do something
   really stupid. I'm outside the Solaris management chain in Sun and I
   promise never to just feed out the party line (unless I happen to
   believe it). Pilot members are most welcome to contact me any time, my
   details are below.
   Regards
   Simon
  _____

 Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist, Sun Microsystems
 Tel:  +1 650 352 6327/USx69758  Web:  www.webmink.net,  AIM: webmink
 Current timezone: GMT (UTC+0)
 -- Original Message --
 Subject: Re: [Opensolaris-discuss] CAB: Sun's Participants
 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:28:35 -0800
 From: James Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio@Sun.COM>
 To: Sean Sprague <sks@cvok.co.uk>
 CC: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
 Sean Sprague wrote:
 > Jim,
 >
 >> Guys ... Sun has chosen two participants for the OpenSolaris
 >> Community Advisory Board:
 >>
 >> * Casper Dik, Senior Staff Engineer
 >> * Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist
 >
 >
 > Being the cynical bastard that I am, I naturally expected this phase
 > to take a lot longer (if not overrun) ;-) Thus, I am pleasantly
 > surprised by this announcement.
 >
 > Top choices of Sun-side CAB members! They will do us all proud, I am
 > certain.
 >
 > Sean.
 You expected longer?  Hell, we're late enough. On this part, though,
 we've been talking for a month now internally trying to figure out the
 best mix. Also, several people have told me that they are really happy
 with the community's election, too. As this is coming together, I think
 we will an excellent mix of personalities and talents to announce to the
 world. One more to go.
 Jim
 -- Original Message --
 Subject: Re: [Opensolaris-discuss] CAB: Sun's Participants
 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:31:29 -0800
 From: James Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio@Sun.COM>
 To: Alan DuBoff <Alan.DuBoff@sun.com>
 CC: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
 Alan DuBoff wrote:
 >Now, who will that open source community mystery person be....????;-)
 >  
 >
 >
 We've been talking with leaders in the open source community for a year
 now on various issues, and we've gotten really excellent feedback. We
 hope to finalize this choice shortly.
 Jim