Power t-shirts | Random thoughts of Peter ‘CzP’ Czanik

I love t-shirts, especially those that you’d call logowear. But it’s not the kind of big name fashion logos that I’m referring to. Rather, it’s logowear from my favorite IT companies. I have well over a hundred of these t-shirts, and except when I’m preparing for a special event, I pull a random t-shirt from my collection. Yesterday I happened to wear a power.org t-shirt, while today I’m wearing an OpenPOWER t-shirt, two POWER t-shirts in two days 🙂 Both of these brought back some nice memories.

The first t-shirt is really old, I got it probably around 2008, while working for Genesi. One of my tasks was moderating the forums on the power.org website. It was a website focusing on IBM POWER server products, but it also included some generic POWER information. Besides sharing information, it also provided a meeting point for like-minded engineers, where they could discuss anything related to POWER. You can read my history with POWER-based computers in one of my opensource.com articles at https://opensource.com/article/20/10/power-architecture.

The t-shirt I had on today is a lot more recent, but still cannot be called new. It is a t-shirt by the OpenPOWER Foundation from the golden era of open source on POWER: the POWER9 years. Those years have seen the most active open source development on POWER ever since the Pegasos / PowerMac years. Many applications were ported to POWER, both for the server and the desktop. Hopefully there will be another wave of open source activity on POWER soon, fingers crossed 🙂

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