On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Al Hopper <al at logical-approach.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Angad Singh <angad at angadsingh.in> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have some good news for you :) > > Indeed! > > > Moinak had announced about a new belenix server coming up about a month > ago, > > along with a call for some help with the Belenix website. There's a > couple > > of reasons I had taken up interest in it. 1) I wanted to give back to the > > community somehow. I am (right now) not that much into OS development, so > I > > saw contributing to the website as a great way to give back something. 2) > > The plus point being that the website was made upon drupal, of which I am > a > > die-hard fan :). 3) I found it a great opportunity to work on a > production > > solaris server and sharpen my server admin skills. learning all the > dtrace > > hacking of drupal for performance increase, security, debugging, etc. :) > > It's great. I've always wanted to find a converged opportunity covering > both > > solaris and web development (actually solaris, drupal and netbeans!). > > > > It's been around 4 days since I've been ripping apart the belenix website > > and creating something totally new. Not literally, just joking :) > > Excellent news Angad! A very well written and informative post with a > lot of useful and interesting links to tools and other sites. I'm > looking forward to the "new" Belenix site. > > My only question is how does Moinak (and the Belenix project) manage > to attract and regain some of the best and highly motivated > contributors such as yourself?? I came to know about Belenix an year ago when I was appointed as a Sun Campus Ambassador. I've known, learnt, explored, used, evangelised/promoted Belenix as much as OpenSolaris since then. I'd say that it is the Sun CA program which is spreading a lot of awareness about Sun's opensource technologies amongst university students and getting them to go and participate in them. Moinak has indeed spearheaded the belenix community very well and we are all proud of what he is and has done. I joined the BOSUG and Belenix community aliases once I started using opensolaris and belenix, to connect with the community, get to know about the latest developments, to get some support, and to give some if I can. I always wanted to give back and the website is a good way to do that. Let us know when the site goes live. I think the 'scoop' feature will > set a new precedent for OpenSolaris related project sites. With this, we have our very own slashdot. With careful and well planned execution, it can be a big hit. It should be exactly what the community wants, so I request inputs regarding everything - the rules, the concept, any barriers to acceptance, usability, features. It is not a new concept in the web2.0 world, most of us are familiar with it, but we need to tweak and tune it for the community and its needs. Once it rolls out, my request is that you use it, and give your inputs, so that we can enhance it. All improvements can be contributed back to the Drigg project and in turn to Drupal. > .... snip ... lots of Good Stuff snipped .... > > Thanks for taking the time to write this up. I know it took a lot > longer to write than it does to read! :) Thanks for reading through my rather long mails. It takes a lot of patience to read through them too. :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-discuss/attachments/20080629/ea3054b4/attachment.html>
