Teresa Giacomini wrote:
> We've been discussing the Innovation Award program announced last week.
> We've come
> up with a starting point for a broader discussion and we'd like to request an
> Advocacy
> CG mailing list -- awards-program at opensolaris.org -- so we can manage the
> program there
> and keep track of our progress over on the Genunix.
+1 for a list to organize it, and perhaps the next question I'm about to ask
would be better there, but that name with these categories confuse me:
> - Device Drivers - $25,000
> - Applications and Packaging - $25,000
> - Documentation - $25,000
These are of course absolutely critical areas to the success of OpenSolaris,
but they generally aren't sources of "Innovation". I could see some work
there being innovative - creating a new driver framework like Nemo, the IPS
work, or defining a new way to get documentation to users - but just writing
a driver for a given device, porting/packaging an existing application, or
writing documentation aren't breaking new ground.
That's what confused me when the awards program I'd heard about internally was
announced with the "Innovation Awards" title - the biggest contributions we've
gotten from community members that aren't employed by a sponsor like Sun or
Intel have been in areas like this (ksh93, the Emancipation projects, Xorg
SPARC drivers), that have been focused on bringing OpenSolaris up to parity
with either the existing closed bits of Solaris or other open source
platforms, not in taking OpenSolaris to places no one has ever gone before.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
