Approximately a year ago I was approached by the Sun Microsystems regarding writing a sound theme for OpenSolaris. Apparently, they liked the "Borealis" sound theme and were looking for something similar.
 
After several months of discussions and dealing with paperwork, this past fall I was officially commissioned to write the original sound theme for Sun's OpenSolaris. I am very excited to work on this project in part as it may potentially introduce several novel aspects to the user interaction and am currently working to produce the final deliverable no later than the onset of the spring semester of 2009.