I believe this has all the requisite "+1" votes :) (Garrett D'Amore also voted in the affirmative)
Valerie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:34:03 +0100 From: "[UTF-8] Damian Wojsaw" <dam...@wojslaw.pl> To: Neale Ferguson <NealeFerguson at verizon.net> Cc: OpenSolaris Governing Board Discussions <ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org> Subject: Re: [ogb-discuss] [core-contrib-discuss] Nomination to OGB John Sonnenschein wrote: > +1 I agree, a nonstandard platform advocate would be a good thing to have for > perspective > > On 2010-02-26, at 1:22 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: > >> Im a little embarrassed to be nominating myself but I would like to see >> representation from an emerging platform. Given the current uncertainty >> over platform directions I think it would be useful to have a representative >> from the non-Intel/SPARC side of the house. >> I am the core contributor to the System z port. I started work on the port >> in 2005 and by 2008 had a working ON setup. IBM and Sun both gave >> substantial material support to our port and we developed relationships at >> the highest levels within both organizations. Currently, we have a working >> system available for download based on the 100 build as well as a >> work-in-process at the current build level. I believe we were the 1st >> non-Sun entity to get a port of OpenSolaris to this stage. I have spoken at >> several events in North America and Europe evangelizing OpenSolaris (e.g. >> IBM mainframe conferences in Denver, San Jose, Austin, and Brussels, and >> OpenSource conferences in Dresden and (next week) Copenhagen). >> I think I would bring a different perspective to the Community and having >> worked extensively with bringing Linux to System z, have a deep >> understanding of the issues facing these type of environments. >> >> Neale Ferguson +1 _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
