[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris users @ Cracow University of Economics

[Jim Grisanzio]

On 12/09/08 07:42, Andrzej Grzesik wrote:
> Hi! I’m writing to inform that there actually is an OpenSolaris user group at Cracow University of Economics.
>   

Cool. So, you already exist and you'd like to connect with us on 
opensolaris.org with a project space and mailing list, right? We can do 
that. I'm running out of daylight and I have a long night ahead of me, 
so I'll do this one tomorrow.

Interesting to find so many groups that already exist out there. I 
wonder how many more there are ...

> The leaders are:
> 1) Andrzej Grzesik (me), a student (ags.sun)
> 2) Paweł Wołoszyn, a teacher at the University at the department of Calculation Systems (logan123)
> 3) Olga Madejska, a student (olamad)
>
> Simplistically speaking, group focus is on people spending time in nice company, talking with others who share common interests and experiment with similar things. The group's activities consist mainly of meetings, which occur +/- once a month, during which we talk about new cool things in the world (not only open source), try to solve problems which we encounter and generally have fun. Last time we met we were talking about scaling OpenSolaris for use as a stressed LAMP platform. Some administration staff from the university came, because they have been curious about OpenSolaris and features it offers comparing to SlackWare (this was easy) and Debian (which they migrated to recently, this was tougher). They were happy with what they heard, especially about ZFS and zones. And they took OS 2008.05 CDs to give it a try at homes.
>
> "Members" consist of members of Programming Club (mainly) and Computer Science Club, but other OSS fans come too. 
> The name "KNP UEK" is a result of a quick email query which happened yesterday.
>   

Ok, I can't imagine that conflicting with any of the other UG 
project/list names. :)

> As for me, I've started with OpenSolaris in Nov 2007, tried SXCE, SXDE, Nexenta and now I'm using 2008.11 (though constantly patching 2008.5 since may), as my *ix environment and to show to people. It looks nice, works really well, has working sound - it's almost as easy to convince them to try as with Ubuntu :> And ZFS works like a charm.
>
> If you would like to know more, feel free to ask, I'll be happy to provide the details you need.

Welcome to the community ...

Jim

-- 
Jim Grisanzio
Sr. Program Manager, OpenSolaris Engineering
http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/