[advocacy-discuss] china trip in november

[W. Wayne Liauh]

> hey ... 
> 
> I was in China last week to meet some Sun guys
> (Shaoting, Chengzu Zhou, Edgar Liu), and participate
> in some very cool events around OSUGs and
> universities. 
> 
> * University Day at the Univ. of Science & Technology
> of China
> * ACM/ICPC Programming Contest at Hefei 
> * OSUG meeting at the Hefei University of Technology 
> * OSUG meeting at the Fuzhou Software Park 
> 
> We met hundreds of young people using OpenSolaris,
> and professors and administrators who are following
> the project quite closely. These guys are all very
> interested in building community in China, of course,
> but we tried to also encourage them to participate in
> the main community in development projects and to
> start new user groups. It's a big world and it takes
> years to reach large numbers of people, but we are
> surely making progress. :)
> 
> Pics and links to more pics and blogs here: 
> http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/tags/china1108
> 
> Jim
> 

Thanks for the reports.  This is really great!

Probably as important is another news that Sun also donated a Modular Datacenter (aka "BlackBox") to China's National Disaster Reduction Center in an effort to help the Chinese government build a world-class satellite disaster reduction application system.

This Modular Datacenter will include, among other things, SPARC Enterprise M5000 database servers and T5220 web servers.  

As we all know, the Sun Modular Datacenter is ingeniously designed to integrate computing, storage and networking in a neat and easily transportable 20' shipping container with cooling capacity, monitoring and a power splitting system best suitable in an outdoor setting such as disaster-stricken areas.

I have always been wondering whether we, as a community, can do something to accelerate the  adaptation of the Modular Datacenters.  It has been almost six months since the Wenchuan disaster, but this story always made my eyes wet every time I thought about it:  A woman's body was discovered by rescue workers.  She was found in a crouching position to protect her baby, who miraculously survived.  Next to the woman's body was a cell phone, which was blinking with her dying text message "When my son grows up, please tell him her mother loves him."

If what we do can save even one life, not just to make the world better, I guess that will be worth all our efforts.  :-)
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