[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Summer School Report

[Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM]

Congrats on the completion of your first summer school!  It would be 
great if you would share your materials with the Academic and Research 
community so other folks could conduct similar courses.

T

On 07/31/09 02:18 PM, Uros Nedic wrote:
> OpenSolaris Summer School Report
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> Technical details
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> Location: Belgrade, Serbia
> Duration: 8th Meetings, 4 hours each
> Time    : July, 2009
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> Executive Summary
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> Idea for organizing Summer School dedicated to OpenSolaris and
> surrounding technologies came from my CommunityOne and Java One
> conferences attendance. I learned how important is to have community
> and what is their potential. Final result is greater then I expected
> since we created one well connected group of people and many new
> ideas have been born.
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> On technical side, OpenSolaris attracted many developers and smaller
> amount of system administrators since it has been organized at
> our main supercomputing center. Many developers saw potential of
> OpenSolaris and technologies like COMSTAR, Crossbow, IPsec, Clearview,
> Weak Membership, etc., and learned how to start using it. Of course
> DTrace and ZFS was technologies that surprised all attendants.
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> Suggestions for future events
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> Each meeting brought more attendants than previous. Having this
> in mind speaker has to be always prepared for quick explanation of
> some topics he already did on previous meeting. It is good that
> for each meeting speaker prepare some overview of past topics.
> Also, it is important to give the attendants motivation to come
> in the future. It could be done by explaining what was rationale
> for developing some technology and how it fits in 'wider area'.
> I organized my school towards final topic called 'Cloud' and
> explained to attendants motivation for cloud from economic and
> technology perspective, as well. 'Cloud as a solution to
> current state in IT business' was my main slogan.
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> I have some developers who were interested in HPC area. Also I
> dedicated to them some of my Session to explain what SUN as a
> software and hardware vendor could offer. Also I tried to explain
> how OpenSolaris fits in High Performance Computing market. DTrace
> was one of the flagship technologies they were interested among
> with SunOS architecture.
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> Conclusion
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> My final conclusion is that Summer School was successful project
> which brought new members to community and made community stronger
> and much more connected. I will try to make such even each year
> in the future.
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