Congratulations to the OpenSolaris community! Today is our first anniversary. Today is a day to celebrate, to look back at what we have accomplished, to congratulate our friends and encourage our colleagues, to remember how far we've come and imagine how far we can go.
It has been a year filled with accomplishments -- many of which no one could have foreseen. After the release of OpenSolaris last year, communities, projects, and user groups formed on opensolaris.org and around the world, while at the same time Sun continued releasing code. In fact, there were sixteen additional releases of code over a seven month period last year, and there are still more releases planned for this year. We've had thousands of conversations on our forums that have reaching millions of people around the world. We welcomed code contributions from two dozen community members totaling 100 putbacks -- a number no one predicted. We discussed and wrote a development process that will help ensure technical quality on the project. After open evaluations, we selected a source code management system and will implement it this year. We wrote a Charter enfranchising the community, and we are writing a merit-based Constitution so we can truly run the community as a community. We are doing interesting new things with the code, such as creating distributions and porting the technology to new platforms. And OpenSolaris is being taught in dozens of the leading computer science institutions around the world. And the list goes on. We should be proud of all these accomplishments, but humble as well. There remains a great deal of technical work and community building ahead of us, and this will be our challenge for next year. Today, as we celebrate our first year, community members are blogging about their experiences with OpenSolaris and talking on IRC and in the OpenSolaris forums. Others are being recognized for their many valuable contributions to the project in the community's First Annual OpenSolaris Contributor Awards. The OpenSolaris source code may be what we talk about and work on, but communities at their heart are about people who are moved to action. And that's what we are really celebrating today. Our community. So get involved. Participate.Your voice is important, and your perspective is valued. You are welcome here at OpenSolaris. Again, congratulations to everyone. And just imagine ... what's possible for next year? Jim -- Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
