[advocacy-discuss] (Open)Solaris for the masses - WAS Re: firefox

[Nathan Kroenert]

(Sorry to be re-posting the same thing, but I thought it would be 
appropriate to change the subject, as it was nothing to do with 
firefox... :)


Interesting, that.

One of the guys in our local office was interested in the idea of
getting Solaris to the Masses.

His idea was to hit the local Uni's with a "Everything you need to know
to get started with Solaris at home" session. Something like a 3 hour
session, showing everything from running the installer through to
configuring basic stuff like networking, users, disks, IPF, and then
building to a frenzy of things like Samba (Or ZFS / CIFS), Apache, PHP,
whatever.

I'm considering putting together such a presentation (though it'll be in
Q1, as I'm flat out till the end of Q4.). As much as could reasonably be
stuffed into (say) 3 hours.

Would others be interested in:
   - Using said bunch of stuff for their own purposes
   - A pre-existing presentation *I* could use
   - Possibly providing content if I provided a strawman of what we
wanted to cover.

Bottom line is that there are heaps of developers and users in the local
UNI's that are somewhat interested in (open)solaris, but it's a little
too hard to know everything they need to know before they start, and
it's hoped these sessions would help to equip them for it.

We would of course, then want to followup with an installfest, but
that's another day.

Thoughts?

Nathan.


Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Dan Roberts wrote:
>> -Help a Friend Install OpenSolaris Day
>> -Adopt a Student/User (longer term commitment, it's a puppy...)
>> -Write or record a Getting Started Guide for your Favorite Feature Day
>> (15min start up guides or videos)
>> -Port a Package Day
>> -Test the Preview/Beta/RC Day
>> -Fix a Bug Day
>>   
> 
> Good ideas. I had been thinking about focusing only on OpenSolaris, but 
> Eduardo commented that perhaps we could combine a One Day event for all 
> of the communities and Ashwin commented to included the Campus 
> Ambassadors as well http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/one_day. The 
> advantage of the CAs is that they curt across several technologies, not 
> just OpenSolaris. Combining all of the communities could be quite big. 
> :) I still like the notion of doing something specific to OpenSolaris as 
> well. Perhaps we can build form Dan's list of ideas  ...
> 
> Jim
> 

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