--------------------------------------------------------------------------- I, Dennis Clarke, am a Core Contributor to the PowerPC Community and I strongly believe that John J. McLaughlin would make an excellent addition to the OGB.
I first spoke with John in late 2004 while he was researching some software provided by Blastwave. We spoke for quite some time and I then came to realize that this was someone that had been around in the UNIX world forever. I wanted to do some research and then briefly write here what I know about John McLaughlin and after speaking with him he has accepted the idea of working within the OpenSolaris Governing Board. We would be a stronger community if we had someone with John's experience on the OGB. Please let me share what I know here. John has been a UNIX user, developer, administrator and evangelist for 26 years. That is not a typo. That is over two and a half decades. John was a Systems Engineer for Sun in Florida for 15 years from 1987 up to 2002. Back in 1988 he began a newsletter service for Sun customers which was distributed via UUCP. This was before the web browser existed and before the "internet" was a common word. John was first Vice President and then eventually President of the Sun User Group (SUG) at a time when the User Group was "divorced" from Sun in the mid 90's. In 1998, John joined local entrepreneur Dante DeAngelis to create System News, Inc. in Coral Springs, FL. Back then System News provided a newsletter service for Sun Resellers as so few Resellers were producing their own newsletters. In 2002, John accepted the position of CTO and Editor-in-Chief at SNI. He expanded the coverage and evolved the technology from monthly print to weekly, dynamic HTML/PDF/text and Web portal. In 2002, Sun signed a master services agreement with SNI and a number of Sun sales teams started using the "SunFlash" program. John has evolved SNI's offering from a simple newsletter service to an ASP system that provides communications, content, participation (wikis, blogs, forums), calls-to-action, and customer relationship management for sales teams and their management. Starting in 2004, John created a "hub" for people involved with Sun within the http://www.Linkedin.com on-line business networking service. John has nearly ten thousand people connected to his name in one way or another! Most are involved with Sun - Senior Sun Management, employees, ex-Sun employees, Sun Resellers, members of the press or analysts. John has been promoting OpenSolaris in "System News" since early 2005. In early 2006, John became a principle consultant and Sun specialist for Forsythe Solution Group, one of Sun Microsystems' largest Partners. John has taken the lead in forming Open Solaris User Groups in Florida at Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa, and Orlando. Previously I asked Jim Grisanzio if he would consider a position on the OGB and I was happy that he accepted. I don't think that Jim Grisanzio will ever build his own kernel and boot and run with it. I do know that I want strong leaders and people with a vast depth of character on the OGB. I don't know if John has built a kernel either. But I know a leader when I see one and I am both happy and proud to nominate John J. McLaughlin to the future OpenSolaris Governing Board. Dennis Clarke Director Blastwave.org http://www.blastwave.org/ ~ ~ ~ "jjm.txt" 62 lines, 3304 characters _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
