Happy 1 Year to the Hortonworks Community Connection!
It’s all about being open.
I am tremendously proud to be part of an open movement that is now 10+ years in the making. Apache Hadoop turned 10 earlier this year with a patch check-in on Feb. 2, 2006 by Hortonworks co-founder, Owen O’Malley.
As a reflect back on my own open source journey, it started back in late 1998 with Jini technology developed by a great group of technologists at Sun Microsystems led by Bill Joy and Mike Clary. It was privileged to work with Mike, Emily Suter, Richard Gabriel, Ron Goldman, and so many others on what turned out to be the beginning of my very own exciting open source journey.
After the launch of the technology, the team planned to open source Jini and create a new community to gain adoption. We all learned so much in the process. We then all worked on Project JXTA and open sourced that technology and built a thriving community. From there, I had the opportunity to lead teams that created new communities and attract developer adoption. Some of these communities included java.net where we were ultimately able to open source JavaEE (GlassFish), OpenJDK, and so many cool innovations. We had the opportunity to work with Tim O'Reilly and Brian Behlendorf and their teams as we built out communities with the goal to further technology adoption. Open source technologies and market acceptance have come a long way since those days. Bill Joy was right when he said “Innovation Happens Everywhere”. Communities working together can and do create amazing technology.
At Hortonworks, a few of us strategized on building a community, the Hortonworks Community Connection (HCC), that would provide even more access to and further the adoption of Apache Hadoop.
Hortonworks at its core is all about open communities and open technologies. Mark Herring, a colleague from Sun who worked on Java Marketing and MySQL, took HCC a step further and has been an amazing leader for the effort. Today on its first anniversary, HCC is a great destination to get answers, share code, and collaborate easily and simply with everyone in the community. HCC gives people everywhere access to the amazing technologists and committers including Alan Gates, Owen O’Malley, Arun C Murthy and so many others that are working with the community on Apache Hadoop and its success.
It’s been great to be part of a movement that matters to everyone in the industry. Congratulations on the 1-year anniversary of the Hortonworks Community Connection and, of course, to the Apache Hadoop community. Innovation indeed happens everywhere.
