Sorry that I have not done this earlier, but I actually didn't realize it was part of the culture until I read Eddan's note.<br><br>I
met Matt Senate as a participant on the coordinating team of the "Code
for Oakland" hackathon, and he and his mentions of Sudoroom really
piqued my curiosity. <br>
<br>I am mostly a startup guy, and founded an "interactive TV" company
that went under in the "dot-com" bust. More recently, I have been a
development executive for an email services startup and a mobile
application startup.<br>
<br>I also have a fair amount of "big company" computer industry
experience. For example, I worked at Sun Microsystems for 7 years,
during which time I was first the Solaris Kernel director, and then the
owner of all SPARC-based virtualization. The group of which I was
director delivered both the SPARC Hypervisor and Virtual Machines
(LDoms) subsystems.<br>
<br>All that managerial experience has meant that I've been pretty
hands-off for a while, but my commitment to open data and open
government has induced a high level of motivation to get more hands on
again. To that end, I am in the process of learning Python.<br>
<br>Why am I interested in Sudoroom? <br><br>First, it's interesting,
and from what I can tell, this mailing list in jam-packed with
interesting folks. I really like the idea of a hacker space in central
Oakland, and view it as a potentially amazing community asset. The
world needs changing and the only way to get it done is to do it. Seems
to me that that is at least in part what Sudoroom is about. <br>
<br>Another reason is serendipity. You have to put yourself in the way
of interesting stuff if you want interesting stuff to happen, right?
I'm less clear about what my destination on this journey might be. I'd
love to be a part of an emerging startup community in Oakland, and to
that end, have decent connections to The Sand Hill Road Gang. Seems
like that might not be the preferred approach among Sudoers (not mine
either, truth be told), but it's true.<br>
<br>As long as no one minds my hanging out on the mailing, my current
intent is to follow developments as they unfold and wait for an organic
opportunity to get more involved.<br><br>Lots more details at: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybarreca">http://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybarreca</a><br><br><br><div class="yj6qo ajU"><div id=":xr" class="ajR" tabindex="0">
<img class="ajT" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Eddan Katz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eddan@eddan.com" target="_blank">eddan@eddan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As we went around doing introductions last night, I remembered that we haven't done any intros on the mailing list since June. The thread for the intros is at <a href="http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/sudoroom/2012-June/thread.html#370" target="_blank">http://lists.hackerspaces.org/<u></u>pipermail/sudoroom/2012-June/<u></u>thread.html#370</a>.<br>
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For those who haven't really introduced themselves on the mailing list, I know I want learn about what you do and why Sudo Room is relevant to you. I'm sure others would appreciate it, too.<br>
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