Diversity of the OpenSSO Community

I was looking at MarkMail today, specifically at September 2008’s emails to [email protected], and it struck me how many were from folks outside Sun. In fact, looking at the Top 20 senders, only 10 are in the ‘OpenSSO team’ at Sun. Another 4 (shown highlighted in light yellow) are folks from elsewhere in Sun, with 6 of the Top 20 (highlighted in yellow) being participants from outside Sun.

1)	Pat Patterson	27
2)	Rohan Pinto	22
3)	Dennis Seah	21
4)	Aaron Sheffey	19
5)	Shesh Kondi	17
6)	Deepak Pasupunatla	13
7)	David Goldsmith	12
8)	John Domenichini	11
9)	Robert Dale	11
10)	Hua Cui	10
11)	Dilli Dorai	9
12)	Tim Reynolds	9
13)	Damien Covey	8
14)	Amit Snyderman	7
15)	Nikolaos Giannopoulos	7
16)	Sean Brydon	7
17)	Ashok Anumandla	6
18)	Ezra Simeloff	6
19)	Florian Thiel	6
20)	Qingwen Cheng	6

Intrigued, I looked at the Top 20 senders since OpenSSO began, expecting to see far fewer ‘external’ senders over the long run, but was very pleasantly surprised to see just as many there:

1)	Pat Patterson	288
2)	Dennis Seah	271
3)	Michael Teger	125
4)	Sean Brydon	117
5)	Hua Cui	116
6)	Nikolaos Giannopoulos	103
7)	Dilli Dorai	100
8)	Hedrick, Brooke	86
9)	David Holroyd	76
10)	Milton Lima	72
11)	Nebergall, Christopher	69
12)	Subba Evani	63
13)	David Goldsmith	61
14)	Ping Luo	61
15)	Tim Reynolds	59
16)	Indira Thangasamy	57
17)	Rajeev Angal	53
18)	Shivaram Bhat	53
19)	Robert Dale	49
20)	Qingwen Cheng	46

One consequence of this diversity is that the pool of OpenSSO expertise is growing and we now have questions being asked and answered on the mailing list, by folks ‘out there’ in the wider community, while we in Santa Clara are all tucked up in bed. You know, I think there’s some substance to this ‘open source’ thing…