Bill Rushmore wrote: > 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. >
I didn't realize this list existed. In order for Sun HR to know, someone would have to tell them. Where is the list? I did a very quick search, but couldn't find it. Sara > Bill > rushmores.net > > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/attachments/20071005/0755c160/attachment.html>
