Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up rather early, breakfast, walked to the office. Met Roger in person for the first time, good stuff - length meeting of all dbe,esktop management. Caught up with Guy a little afterwards, and met Nitin.
Wandered off for lunch, ate with a load of Provo City gardeners taking advantage of The cheapest food in town in the cafeteria - nice guys.
Back, met Jeff Frame, Brady etc. and on to the BU kick-off, met Greg - lots of general back-slapping, meetings, and interesting analysis.
Out to a meat-fest in the evening, enjoyed the company of Greg, Naresh & Loren.
Poked at the web, amazed to read about Sun's action around OpenDS Simon's reply and some clarifications too. Reading things like:
Sun management has shown that ... they are willing to resort to rather hostile tactics to preserve absolute control. This is most certainly not in the spirit of open source and open development that we tried to foster or that Sun claims to embody.
Sad indeed. It is unusual to air such threats made in private, and of course it's sad for Sun to fund problems for itself with severance money (as has happened before). Having said that, clearly this is a highly unattractive action, taken (I hope) against Sun's better overall vision of open-ness. Anyhow - clearly there is some great scope here for making bold gestures of direction around open-ness & ownership in other large (productivity?) projects.
Poked at bug load, and mail until late.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2007-12-03: Monday