[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 booklet Distribution in India

[Jim Grisanzio]

Abhishek Kumar wrote:
> Hello Everybody!
>
> Indians would be celebrating monsoon with OpenSolaris this month ;) We 
> have worked with one of the biggest IT magazines in India to come out 
> with an 16 page exclusive booklet for OpenSolaris 2009.06. This 
> booklet includes a comprehensive introduction to OpenSolaris, 
> installation guide with VirtualBox, a workshop based tutorial to set 
> up web and java development environment and an interview of Glynn 
> Foster. This booklet talks at length about opensolaris.org 
> <http://opensolaris.org> and communities behind opensolaris. There is 
> a subsection on OSUGs as well and the links to some Indian OSUGs are 
> also given! You can download and freely redistribute this booklet from 
> my blog 
> http://blogs.sun.com/krabhishek/entry/opensolaris_2009_06_exclusive_booklet 
> A total of 120,000 copies of this booklet would be distributed all 
> over the nation, including schools and libraries. Along with this, an 
> another major Indian IT magazine is carrying the OpenSolaris Live CD 
> with them and they have a readership of 180,000! I am really hoping 
> that it would help us drive opensolaris in India and make it a 
> household name amongst the young developers and users.


hey, nice. :) Seems the OSUGs are flying right along out there eh? And 
to think they told us we couldn't build a user community. My, my how 
things have changed.

Jim
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