"I need to ask the Blastwave and OpenSolaris communities for your help. Despite my best efforts at gathering corporate sponsorship, Blastwave is once again in a financial crisis. We are due to be evicted from the datacenter in three days, and there is little that I can do personally to stop this." You can help out by donating, and while doing that you can also participate in this survey set up to estimate the size of the Blastwave community.
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I think there's something more going on here than meets the eye. I understand spending waking hours working on Open source software, etc., but selling your house to keep a site going?
I don't know the guy and he undoubtedly has done a lot to the community, but how could someone have made such a drastic move?
(And yes, Sun could've sponsored him, but that's not my point).
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I've built some packages for Blastwave and the main reason for the datacenter prescence is to have central development systems. That have 3 (I think) main systems. One is the frontend box, one Solaris SPARC dev box, and one Solaris x86 dev box. Package maintainers are required to make packages on each platform. They are then moved to the web server system.
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I must say I'm heartened by the fact that this post comes from a machine in Sun's IP space.
OrgName: Sun Microsystems, Inc
OrgID: SUN
Address: 4150 Network Circle
City: Santa Clara
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 95054
Country: US
NetRange: 192.18.0.0 - 192.18.194.255
NetName: SUN1
NetHandle: NET-192-18-0-0-1
Parent: NET-192-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.SUN.COM
NameServer: NS2.SUN.COM
NameServer: NS7.SUN.COM
NameServer: NS8.SUN.COM
RegDate: 1985-09-09
Updated: 2003-10-10
Mind you, it could just as easily be a starry-eyed intern as someone who controls any purse strings or knows of Sun's intentions on the matter.
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I never understood the fanatism of certain people. I agree Solaris is a great Operating System but why would people allow supporting it get in the way of their life? If supporting it gets in the way of you finding work, why do it? If you have to sell your house to keep a website going, why? In the end of the day, you get nothing for keeping Solaris alive. Solaris is Sun's property. Sun makes money off of it. You don't get anything out of it except the warm fuzzy feeling. Work on it if you want, but don't let it ruin your life. If Blastwave goes down, so what? It's Sun's lose. They have plenty of money, they can keep it going. Why give everything you have to support them?
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Sun should host Blastwave in their datacenters. Blastwave is needed for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris, because it is a very effective and efficient tool for installing binaries for a lot of software.
It would be a really cheap marketing boost for Sun to take Blastwave under their wing and bill it under "community development."
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"I never heard of such difficulties from a "real" Open Source Project..."
LOL! You obviously haven't tried to get your foot in the door at Mozilla, the BSD systems, GNOME, the Linux kernel, etc. These projects are _huge_ and operate implicitly on a system of meritocracy. No one can just waltz onto their mailing lists and ask for help and expect more than a trivial acknowledgement.
They are too busy to hand hold new developers--you gotta learn it on your own...just like OO.org. My impression of OO.org is that they will at least pay attention to you if you really did the up-front work to make their attention worth while. The problem is that these projects are so complex that the up-front work is like prepping for a new career.
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How much of this is related to Blastware, the PowerPC port of OpenSolaris? Dennis Clarke is the founder and (apprently) primary source of funding for both projects.
I'm not sure how someone could start such an ambitious project knowing they were already in financial difficulty.
http://www.blastware.org/
Now we just need commodity PowerPC systems from someone other than Genesi and this will be useful.
