OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board

The Community Advisory Board for OpenSolaris was announced yesterday. Members are: Simon Phipps, Roy Fielding, Casper Dik, Al Hopper, and Rich Teer. I met Rich at ApacheCon last November, and I've had some good e-mail conversations with Al Hopper, so I'm glad they're both on the team. They should represent the community side of things very well. Casper Dik knows his technical shit, and has been a great resource on the SolarisX86 mailing list. I don't know a ton about Simon Phipps, but his blog is where I got this announcement, so he can't be too bad. I'm quite pleased Sun picked those two as their reps, and didn't pick some other former SolarisX86 list member who shall remain nameless. Roy Fielding is the "big Open Source name" of Apache fame -- he will surely bring some great experience to the group. More details about the members available at the OpenSolaris CAB page

Congrats to all the members, if you decide you need a resident rabble rouser, I'm always available...

Update: Jim Grisanzio has a good article about the CAB selection process and several links to press about the CAB on his blog