I’m involved in Sun’s engineering mentoring program, known (inevitably) by its acronym SEED (Sun Engineering Enrichment & Development), and today we’re having an all-day meeting for the participants, both mentors and… hmm. What word should I use? I know that some people use mentee, and I’ve even seen it in a dictionary, but it doesn’t work for me.
Anyway, we’ve got various speakers scheduled, including executives and domain specialists. There’s also going to be a session consisting of short presentations by the mentees program participants. As I blog this, Greg Papadopoulos is reprising his CEC presentation “The Future Is Not What It Used To Be”, in which he highlights the shift in software/service business models and the implications for innovation within the company.
Naturally this is a distributed meeting. Most participants are in our Menlo Park campus, and the agenda runs from 9-5 Pacific time. There are five of us in a conference room here in Burlington, Massachusetts; we’re going to have to decide whether to stay until 8pm, taking into account the winter storm that is bearing down on us….
[UPDATE: After a careful risk analysis, I drove home around 3:20pm; it took me about an hour. It started out as snow; by the time I got home it was ice, ice ice. And now I’m dialled back in to the meeting.]
[Blogged on my Ferrari running Solaris 10, using the web interface to my blog. Now I need a good Solaris blogging tool, as good as MarsEdit on my Mac. And despite Alec’s comment. I don’t regard EMACS as an alternative. Maybe it’s a platform on which to build a solution, but…]