Jim Grisanzio wrote > Yah, I had the same experience the year before on SoC. And, quite > frankly, it's been challenging in other parts of OpenSolaris to get > people involved as well. I had very little response to writing articles > and other non-technical activities, for instance. And it's been > challenging to grow new user groups, too, since we have no resources to > offer (shirts, kits, etc). So, I'm not sure what I can offer to motivate > people. All I have are projects and lists. :) > >
I think there is one thing that Sun can do that might help contributions outside of Sun interested more in the OpenSolaris project. People contributing to OpenSolaris should see doing so would be a career enhancing move. After all, people are not likely to contribute if they don't see any benefit for them. In my opinion Sun (and others) should use the contributors of the community as a resource for recruiting people. For example, looking for a student who is interested in operating systems to join the Solaris team? Need someone to port a driver for you? Need a top notch Sys Admin? Find them in the OpenSolaris community and when you do find them make sure people know about it. Do you realize that several months ago we started a OpenSolaris job list and we have not a single post to the list? The first place a Sun HR recruiter should be going to look for a new hire is right here to the community. I went to www.sun.com/jobs and just for the US I searched for "OpenSolaris" and I got back 99 hits. So why not a single post to the OpenSolaris job list? Where else would Sun find people anymore dedicated? I believe that there have been a few people hired from the community but it was never really publicized heavily. It should, make a big deal about the fact that people that make great contributions get recognized. Bill rushmores.net
