[OmniOS-discuss] To the OmniOS Community

[Marion Hakanson]

I'd like to add my thanks to Dan for his valuable support of
the OmniOS community.  And to OmniTI for making the distribution
available to Solaris refugees (and ZFS & zones users) like myself.

We're a non-profit, so we found OmniTI's support costs beyond our
reach, but I believe we would be able to afford $1k or so per year
for an updates-only type of support contract that would cover the
ten or so storage servers we have here.

I wonder how many such $1k/yr customers (supporters) would be needed
to hire Dan to continue his work on behalf of the OmniOS/illumos
community.  Would 100 be enough?  200?

Regards,

Marion



> From: Krzysztof Grzempa <grzempek at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 20:18:22 +0200
> To: <omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com>
> Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] To the OmniOS Community
> 
> Thank you Dan, for the best Illumos distro ever!
> I hope that the transfer to the community driven model will come true, and
> I hope you still will be the part of it.
> Now it is up to us, the 'community' to decide if we want to keep this great
> project alive or let if go.... I'm ready to participate somehow financial
> and with my skills...
> 
> 2017-05-12 19:35 GMT+02:00 Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru>:
> 
> > On May 12, 2017 6:07:01 PM GMT+03:00, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com>
> > wrote:
> > >Dear OmniOS Community,
> > >
> > >For the past 3+ years, it has been my pleasure and honor to be "OmniOS
> > >Engineering" at OmniTI. I hope I made OmniOS a nice platform to use for
> > >solving problems, whether they be Home-Data-Center, service-hosting
> > >box, network filer, or other uses.
> > >
> > >As you saw, OmniTI is turning over OmniOS completely to the community.
> > >The decision-making was sensible for OmniTI, and I understand it
> > >completely. With r151022, OmniOS should be at a nice long-term state
> > >(022 was always intended to be LTS).
> > >
> > >I will be around OmniTI for another week (though on Friday the 19th my
> > >availability will be spotty).  During this next week, I encourage
> > >people to start upgrading or installing r151022 on their environments.
> > >I already have updated it on my own HDC, and it seems to be performing
> > >as it has previously.
> > >
> > >Thank you again, OmniOS community, for making these past three years as
> > >rewarding as I'd hoped they'd be when I joined OmniTI. And as for
> > >OmniTI, if you need web or database consulting, please keep them in
> > >mind. Still a fan, even though I'm no longer with them.
> > >
> > >Dan McDonald -- OmniOS Engineering
> > >
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> >
> > Oh, bummer... I hope you'd be around for the community effort too every
> > now and then. ;) Thanks for keeping that ship afloat!
> >
> > Jim
> > --
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