[advocacy-discuss] Planned OpenSolaris conference in Poland

[Jim Grisanzio]

Martin Man wrote:
> Hi Damian,
> 
> I'm not sure if you've got the news from opensolaris-announce[1], but 
> there will be the Opensolaris Developer Conference (OSDevCon) 2008 in 
> Prague organized by CZOSUG and GUUG. We are going live with the 
> conference website and call for papers during the beginning of October. 
> Announce of a conference just two months before the date is a bit too 
> fast IMHO, but that just IMHO. However I'm taking your offer seriously 
> and it would be great to meet with other OpenSolaris people in Poland.
> 
> What exactly are your next steps?
> 
> thanx,
> Martin (from the OSDevCon 2008 organization team)
> 
> [1] 
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-July/001627.html




Seems like a good opportunity to join up. :) As we grow, I think we can 
expect many such conference efforts coming from outside Sun. It's all 
good. As these conferences materialize with dates and schedules, let's 
list them here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/events/

Jim
-- 
Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris





> Damian Wojslaw wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> 	Polish OpenSolaris translation team wants to host an OpenSolaris
>> Conference in Szczecin, Poland. We plan it so far at 23,24 October 2008.
>> We give ourselves a long distance, so everything can be done properly,
>> since it is a very first technical conference I am trying to organise.
>> 	I already have a firm very keen on sponsoring and orginising whole
>> event and they have some experience in that matter. We are aiming at
>> max. 200 persons, but we would like to launch some registration site, so
>> we can trace the number eventually change place.
>> 	We want to guarantee some snacks during the event (but not dinner) and
>> a hotel rooms for prelegents. 
>> 	We already have some prelegents and I believe I can share this
>> publicly, that Jim Grisanzio would like to be here and can already look
>> for red pen, to mark these days in his calendar. :)
>> 	We hop to have some freesbies (t-shirts, mugs).
>> 	If anyone has any experience that can be shared with us, I'd really
>> love to hear from them.
>> 	We would like to cover OpenSolaris, Solaris, Java. We already have ppl
>> for dtrace, zfs and fma. 
>> 	If anyone of you would like to come, I can look for cheap or
>> comfortable hotesl, depending on what you like or need. :)
>> 	Szczecin is about 3 hours drive long from Berlin, so those of you that
>> live close to German North-East border may consider just driving for
>> event. There is a train, I believe. :)
>>
>> 	Regards