Telle Whitney announced last night that the Hopper conference will be
held every year starting next year (17-20 October 2007, in Orlando,
Florida). I think this is a good idea and even though it will be twice
the work to prepare for, I very much look forward to getting Hopper’s boost
in energy and ideas twice as often. Over and over the executives who
stood up to talk and present awards at the celebration dinner last night
talked about the amazing buzz they felt by being at Hopper. So true!
I am sorry that Sun’s CTO Greg Papadopoulos could not attend the
Hopper event. When we talked about it recently, he was very disappointed that
he had a customer visit he could not cancel. Even though he could not join us
in person, Greg did what he could by supporting Sun’s Gold Sponsorship of
Hopper plus Sun’s corporate partnership of the Anita Borg Institute, being on the
ABI Board personally, and giving an excellent opinion piece in CNET called “Perspective: Engineering field must have diversity” which was published
yesterday.
I have been working for Greg for 8 out of my 22 years at Sun, the longest I have worked for anyone. Greg is just plain cool:
a great technical leader of solid integrity with good ideas about how both Sun
and Engineering as a whole need to develop. Also fascinating to talk with.
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