[advocacy-discuss] Activities in Czech republic and Poland

[Glynn Foster]

Hey Roman,

On 1/09/2008, at 8:34 PM, Roman Strobl wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> just wanted to let you know about some recent activities in my region.
>
> 1. We delivered a 5-hour training on OpenSolaris at the Masaryk
> university in Brno, Czech republic. It was a small class of 12  
> students,
> because it was a hands-on training. The materials are still a bit work
> in progress but if anyone's looking for some inspiration for
> computer-based OpenSolaris training, look at this wiki page:
>
> http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolaris/OneDayOpenSolarisTraining
>
> 2. I also delivered 2 presentations at Unixalia conference in Warsaw.
> The turnout was about 90 people and they got quite excited about
> OpenSolaris :) They might start a second Polish user group here in
> Warsaw - I'll work with them to help them set it up.
>
> My sessions including demo scripts are available, too:
> http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolaris/WhatMakesOpenSolarisInteresting
> http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolaris/OpenSolarisSurvivalSkills
>
> The first talk was very well received. 90% of the audience were Linux
> users and they all grabbed the OpenSolaris CDs and had tons of
> questions. I still have to work on the second presentation - it needs
> better demos. Again, these materials can help you if you want to run
> sessions about OpenSolaris. Note that these materials are focused on  
> new
> users (both sysadmins and developers), which is why I promote  
> 2008.05 -
> if you need something for existing Solaris people you may want to talk
> more about the Solaris distribution or SXCE.

Wow, awesome! Seems like some of these presentations would be good to  
add on

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/os-presentations/

I've added you as a web editor for the advocacy community - feel free ;)


Glynn