[advocacy-discuss] Proposal for Melbourne Solaris and OpenSolaris User Group Project (MSOSUG)

[Jim Grisanzio]

Anyone else willing to give this a +1? We have a process that requires 
at least two votes of support.

Jim


Nathan Kroenert wrote:
> thanks for the quick reply. :)
> 
> See inline.
> 
> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>> hi ... thanks for the proposal. +1 from me. Some comments below ...
>>
>> Nathan Kroenert - Server ESG wrote:
>>> Proposal for Melbourne Solaris and OpenSolaris User Group Project 
>>> (MSOSUG)
>>
>> For the purposes of this project on this site within this community 
>> group, I'd just call it "OpenSolaris" .... It's much simpler that way, 
>> and as a practical matter, it doesn't matter that the topics overlap 
>> between Solaris (the product) and OpenSolaris (the code and community, 
>> etc).
> 
> the only real reason we went for MSOSUG in the first place was 
> disambiguation. There were already a number of MOSUGS. :)
> 
> We are not at all wedded to the "Solaris and" part of the name, but we 
> did have a lot of the folks ask about 'the real solaris' when we first 
> talked about getting the group together... (There were concerns, based 
> purely on the proposed name of MSOSUG that we might only talk about 
> OpenSolaris... I guess now that we have met for the first time, it's 
> somewhat less important. :)
> 
>>> Purpose: To drive awareness and adoption of Solaris and OpenSolaris in
>>> the Melbourne region of Australia.
>>>
>>> List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project:
>>>      Advocacy Community Group
>>>
>>> List of project team members:
>>>      Nathan Kroenert(O.S. id: nathank), primary contact
>>>      Boyd Adamson (O.S. id: boyd)
>>>
>>> Project Description: The purpose of this project is to drive both
>>> Solaris and OpenSolaris awareness amongst all Solaris users and
>>> potential users in the community in this area.
>>>
>>> The desire is to increase OpenSolaris adoption wherever it is a good
>>> fit, and encourage users to become more familiar and active with
>>> OpenSolaris. It is hoped that the group would ultimately contribute
>>> documentation and small code changes back to the community, though at
>>> this point, as the group is as young as it is, that may take some time!
>>>
>>> The project will archive its contributions including presentations, and
>>> other material to the project space on the OpenSolaris site.
>>>
>>> Project Needs: This project requires project space on OpenSolaris.org
>>> site. The project also requires a mailing list. Suggested list name is
>>> ug-msosug at opensolaris dot org. (Or even just msosug at opensolaris
>>> dot org. :)
>> Our naming convention for lists is "ug-" so we should stick to that. But 
>> your url can be http://opensolaris.org/os/project/msosug/
>>
> 
> That works for us. :)
> 
>>> Related Projects: At this stage, as the user group has only recently
>>> formed (we have had only one meeting) at this point, we believe it's
>>> best to push mostly for adoption and understanding first, then strive
>>> for active community participation.
>>>
>>> Related past activities: Our first meeting, which was on the 12th of
>>> September had 42 attendees including presenters. The presentations were
>>> for Live Upgrade and the Niagara 2 CPU overview. Next month's
>>> presentations are to be ZFS and Solaris 10 Update 4 new features.
>> Very cool that you already met. I think I saw some blogs on this 
>> meeting. :)
> 
> No doubt about how long overtime I went! ;)
> 
>>> As already indicated, the group is young and there is a lot of core
>>> Solaris learning that will need to take place for much of the group, so
>>> we envisage that the first 6 months or so will be interchangeably
>>> Solaris / OpenSolaris. :)
>>>
>>> Topics planned for the upcoming meetings (As captured at the first
>>> meeting, and ordered by in-meeting vote:
>>> zfs
>>> S10 U4 + Ip Instances
>>> Resource controls and zones
>>> X86: xen / virtualization
>>> SPARC: Ldoms
>>> Solaris / Opensolaris performance management / observation
>>> Differences and management of co-residnt S10 and SX / OpenSolaris
>>> Solaris migration / etude
>>> Commodity Hardware and OpenSolaris
>>> Indiana
>>> Feature interaction / conflicting functionality. eg: zones root + zfs.
>>>
>>> We trust you will consider our group worthy of a User Group and look
>>> forward to being part of the community. :)
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> Nathan and Boyd.
>>
>> Cool. Let's see if anyone else has any questions or comments. We like to 
>> have at least 2 or more "+1s" for each group, so I'm sure you'll not 
>> have a problem. I'll be out of the office for a couple of days, so I'll 
>> check back in on Friday.
> 
> Looking forward to hearing from you all.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Nathan.
> 
>> Jim
>> -- 
>> Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
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