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

[Jim Grisanzio]

cool. thanks. that's 2. i'll get these guys set up tomorrow ...

Jim



Venky wrote:
> Oh, +1 from me too.  Sorry!  I figured this was a shoo-in and did
> not bother to add my vote.
> 
> Venky.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:15:21PM +0900, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>> 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
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