[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Developers Conf

[Jim Grisanzio]

Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> I'm just wondering - is there any plans in the pipeline for an
> OpenSolaris Developers Conference? I seem to remember an annual internal
> Software Developer Conference which seems like the ideal opportunity for
> getting people together to brainstorm for the next couple of months -
> along with the added bonus of being able to open it up to everyone
> interested in opensolaris.org. Rocking! :)
> 
> thoughts?
> 
> Glynn

Hi, Glynn.

For my part, I'd like to plan an OpenSolaris kernel developer summit. 
Just the key kernel engineers at Sun and the key developers in the 
community. Once a year, maybe. Extremely low key and focusing only on 
the people who are actually doing the work. That's the critical part. 
I'll be circulating some ideas shortly.

We've talked some about user groups (which I'm getting involved with now 
as well), and developer conferences, etc. In fact, I started a dev 
conference discussion within the pilot program, but there wasn't much 
interest at that time ... I couldn't get resources ... it was just too 
early, that's all. In my mind there will be multiple levels of 
conferences for the OpenSolaris community to participate in.

For OpenSolaris, I'm thinking that over time we'll have something like 
this: (1) general user groups (which are forming now), (2) a kernel 
summit (which I'd like to do), (3) some sort of general developer 
conference (I have no clue on this one), (4) Sun conferences (JavaOne, 
NetWork, etc ... Sun runs these and we'll be a part of them), and (5) 
industry conferences (that we'll participate in as well, OSCON, Apache, 
USENIX, etc).

That's my thinking at this point. I know marketing has some plans and 
ideas as well.

Jim

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