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Guess I've been sleeping or something, cause I didn't even notice until today that Adam made it to Advogato.

It's good to see David Mandala has arrived here at Advogato. I can't wait to read his diary entries.

org charts: for a company that does open source professional services, specializing in integration and support. Take groups of about 4-6 employees. The group will have a focus, like the Mac integration experts, or the Alpha people, etc. Each group will have a technical lead. The group will be responsible for a project from beginning to end. Meaning that the group will evaluate the business need for integration of open source into the current environment, architect possible solutions, implement the appropriate solution, and support that through the contract. Employees who wish to apprentice themselves to group with another focus, would first transfer their knowledge to a more junior member of their own team. Then, after they switch groups, they may act as a consultant for their former group. I see maybe 4 - 5 of these groups all having a manager type work with them to track projects, and employee well-being, budgets, etc. Any given job could require one or more groups to work on it. This is, of course, a very loose sketch.

work: okay, so I start my new job on Thursday. Yay! I definately want to take this moment to thank my former bossman at my former place of employment for giving me the heave ho so I could have a good long vacation, and get a new exciting job.

Scotty, don't despair, there is still a shortage of IT workers, especially in the SF Bay Area. If you want any pointers to companies that are hiring ppl to do Linux or Solaris, mail me. And it's true, almost every company that I could tell you about is also desperate for Java programmers....

life. I guess it's all just life these days until I start work again.... Last night was extraordinarily interesting: it started with a scorpian bowl, and ended with a bail bondsman. I will leave the middle to the imagination of the reader.

I finished my project for Kernel class. Kirk wore a shirt with a rather cute, chubby orange daemon on it. I think that in addition to wearing a different BSD shirt to class each week, Kirk should have a deal where the students can get a different BSD shirt each week as well. Think of the profit! I think that when this class is over, I might actually try writing some code, instead of just reading it.

kernel class is interesting these days. We are covering VM, which is my favorite part of the kernel. Unfortunately, Kirk isn't wearing anymore exciting shirts too class. I need to take up a collection to get more of those shirts that look like they advertise porn movies for him. I finally got serious about my final project, which is due on Thursday. It looks like it will be easier than I had originally thought.

work is certainly coming along. I've found out that it doesn't matter if I work for an 'open source' company or a company that produces proprietary software, I will still be required to deal with Windows boxes. I love it!

life. I want to know why I'm the only one who drinks one drink, and has a 2 day hang over. This is not fair at all.

more on org charts coming up in future diary entries. really. i know you're fascinated.

Noodle

When I adopted a cat with feline leukemia, I was told that it would be very expensive in the end. It wasn't expensive at all; none of his illnesses could be treated. It was just sad.

Cyber Bowling

I highly recommend cyber bowling after putting a cat to sleep.

Open Source Companies

Can anyone tell me if there are any 'open source' companies that don't use Windows internally?

I really should stop being lazy and read the FreeBSD vm code, which is our homework for this week. After all, it seems to be my favorite part of the kernel, and I'm doing my project on it. I've gone through a few files in the vm directory, the ones that directly concern my project, and I've glanced at the rest, but I need to give them all my undivided attention.

I am amazed at how different all of the open source companies are.

life

My cat is dying. I'm sad. Kirk didn't wear a porn movie BSD shirt to class this week. More on org charts later.

managing open source peoples

Okay, dhd, I'll turn my thesis into an article. Give me a day or so though, as I'm getting busy these days.

seth's contraversial diary entries

I like your diary entries, Seth. Sometimes I read the whole thing, and sometimes I read parts. If others don't like them as much as I do, they don't have to click on the the schoen link. Choice can be good.

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