[advocacy-discuss] Proposal for Danish OpenSolaris UserGroup (DOSUG)

[Sidsel Jensen]

> +1 from me.
> Jim G.

Thanks Jim

- Is there somebody else on the list who can give us another +1 so we can 
get started?

Best,
   Sidsel Jensen

>
> Sidsel Jensen wrote:
>> Proposal for Danish OpenSolaris User Group Project (DOSUG)
>> 
>> Purpose:
>> 
>> The primary purpose of this OSUG is to drive awareness and adoption of 
>> OpenSolaris in Denmark. A secondary purpose is to facilitate a free 
>> exchange of ideas and information between industry and academia.
>> 
>> List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project: Advocacy CG
>> 
>> List of project team members:
>> 
>> Mads Toftum, (mtoftum), primary contact
>> Flemming Danielsen, (fgd)
>> Lasse Østerild, (lasseoe)
>> Sidsel Jensen, Sun Campus Ambassador, University of Copenhagen (sidselj)
>> 
>> Project Description:
>> 
>> The primary purpose of this project is to drive awareness and adoption of 
>> OpenSolaris primarily among engineers, administrators and developers in 
>> Denmark. The user group will provide a stable base for the free exchange of 
>> ideas and experience.  One of our goals will be to educate the users by 
>> presentations by Sun Microsystems, the OpenSolaris community and by our 
>> members.
>> 
>> A secondary purpose is to encourage membership by students, researchers and 
>> engineers working in industry. We will also encourage student adoption and 
>> student projects.
>> 
>> Project Needs:
>> 
>> This project requires project space on OpenSolaris.org site. The project 
>> also requires a mailing list. Suggested list name is ug-dosug at 
>> opensolaris.org <http://opensolaris.org>.
>> 
>> Proposed Projects:
>> 
>> We plan to initiate workshops and user group meetings in Denmark, with a 
>> focus on using OpenSolaris. Step 1 is to gather membership and further 
>> support for the user group from the universities and the open source 
>> community in Denmark.
>> 
>> Future activities will be presentations and workshops on topics including:
>> 
>> * Introduction to Dtrace
>> * The ZFS filesystem
>> * OpenSolaris - Features Overview
>> * Virtualization, Zones, xVM, ldoms
>> * OpenSolaris install-kickstart
>> 
>> Related past activities:
>> 
>> 2005: LinuxForum presentation Solaris Dtrace
>> 2006: LinuxForum presentation Solaris ZFS filesystem
>> 2006: LinuxForum BOF-day presentation OpenSolaris
>> 2007: LinuxForum presentation Solaris & Apache webserver
>> 
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