Ray, I am very excited to hear this proposal and about the prospect of the Sun Ray software being made available to the open source community.
I would like to point out to you the existence of the Sun Shared Visualization software which adds the capability of hardware-accelerated 3D to the the Virtual Client portfolio. Sun Shared Visualization software is based on VirtualGL, an open source project led by Sun engineers in the graphics and visualization group. We have recently started a Visualization project on opensolaris.org, sponsored by the HPC community, that includes this and other visualization software. The Virtual Client community should also be interested in this project. Thanks, Linda Ray Strong wrote: > The following is a proposal for a Virtual Client Community on > opensolaris.org. > > Name: > Virtual Client > > Background: > > Sun provides a family of layered software for virtual client computing. > Sun Ray Software (SRS), Sun Secure Global Desktop (SGD), and the Virtual > Device Access Kit (VDA) provide different solutions for secure virtual > Solaris, Linux, and/or Windows desktops to client devices. It is our > goal to provide some elements of this software to the Open Source > community to drive adoption. > > Focus and Scope: > > The scope of the community will be implementations, ideas, innovations, > and research around virtual client computing. This scope includes, but > is not limited to, such areas as core technologies, APIs, system > administration, application support code (agents), portlets, and test > frameworks. > > Initial Contributions: > > Sun Microsystems will initially contribute to the community elements of > the source code for Sun Ray Software and associated management > applications under the name "Virtual Client Software." This contribution > will start at the time of community formation with links to the Desktop > Manager client source, the SSMA Open Source release, and portlets for > SGD. We will also build a central communication locus for discussion and > support of desktop and virtual client computing through a discussion > group and links to existing users groups. Our plan is also to use these > forums to assist us in evaluating what elements of source and/or > technology to release next and our open source roadmap development. > > > Nominating Members: > Alan Coopersmith > Glynn Foster > Jay Cotton > Stuart Kreitman > > Core Contributors (all from Sun Microsystems): > Jerry Wall > Sandya Menon > John Bondi > Dirk Grobler > Michael Bender > Michael Oliver > Michael Dann > Ray Strong > > Initial Facilitator: > Ray Strong > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss -- ------------------------------------------------ Linda Fellingham x49322 Ph:(650)472-9561 Advanced Visualization Group, Sun Microsystems ------------------------------------------------
