[advocacy-discuss] Chengdu OpenSolaris User Group -- Salon

[Qingye Jiang (John)]

Today I attended the 3rd salon of the Chengdu OpenSolaris User Group
(CDOSUG). The salon was held in a recreation room at Southwest Jiaotong
University.

About 20 people joint the meeting, half of them were professional
developers, and half of them were students. It was interesting that the
students automatically sat on one side of the room, and the professional
developers on the other side ― they actually didn’t know each other
before. The meeting started at 2:30 PM, with people introducing
themselves. Rita (in the middle) then gave a 30-minute talk on various
features of OpenSolaris 2008.05, followed by long discussion among the
participants. At about 4:30 PM, I did a 20-minute demo with Sun SPOT.
After that we becamed unconferenced again. The discussion went on until
people became hungary ― that was almost 6:00 PM.

At the end of the meeting, people agreed that they would like to come
again next month. We also identified two speakers from the participants
for our next meeting. One of them will talk about their view and
practice in the open source space, and the other will talk about Sun
Cluster. None of them are affliated with Sun except through our product
and technologies.

In a word, I like this.

Some photos from on my blog:

http://www.qyjohn.net/?p=506

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