[advocacy-discuss] Conference Season Cometh: MySQL Users Conf, JavaOne, CommunityOne, etc.

[Ben Rockwood]

I saw "Sun Microsystems" on the roaster, but not "OpenSolaris", so we 
should play the Sun angle as well.  If we could get an Ultra 40 with the 
biggest screen you can get (24"+, Sun branded) that would be good; you 
can take the side off revieling the innards which makes geeks smile and 
invokes the old Sun "koool" factor.  We'll suppliment that with Mac's 
running Indiana (VMware or VirtualBox).

I can put together one or two snazzy demos... the people at "Linux-y" 
events like this tend to be more chatty and general that more corperate 
events, so you want short powerful demos such as:

* Creating a RAIDZ2 Zpool with 1 command, and then showing that its 
mounted automatically; then follow up by showing properties such as 
compression, quota, etc.
* DTrace is hard to demo quickly but people love seeing flashy power 
like using Brenden Gregg's "shellsnoop" to watch input/output to all 
shells on the box.. invokes a "woah!" sort of "Ya, DTrace does see 
all..." reaction.
* The old SMF "kill -9, oh look it restarted!".

But honestly, 95% of people will be more interested in just talking with 
the OS as a backdrop.

benr.

Jesse L Silver wrote:
> Thanks Ben :)
>
> Any ideas on what we should show at our table? I can bring any 
> computer equipment we need.
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Ben Rockwood <benr at cuddletech.com 
> <mailto:benr at cuddletech.com>> wrote:
>
>     Looks like a good event and a crowd that I can really be of use in.
>     I'll be there all day Saturday to help out!
>
>     benr.
>
>     Jesse L Silver wrote:
>     > LugRadio Live USA - April 12-13, Metreon, SF
>     >
>     > We have one 6ft table. I'm looking for volunteers to help out!
>
>