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

[Jim Grisanzio]

Ok, I sent to the OGB today:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-September/002533.html 

So sorry orry for the delay. Watch for mail from me off list to get you 
set up.

Jim
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Nathan Kroenert - Server ESG wrote:
> Proposal for Melbourne Solaris and OpenSolaris User Group Project (MSOSUG)
> 
> 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. :)
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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