[osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Developers Conf

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

> 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.

Awesome. From my experience in dealing with the GNOME community stuff,
the worst thing you can do is turn things into a tradeshow. That's
totally not the direction where we want to be, and it's nice to see your
line of thinking with this too.

> 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).

So there's a good example that I always refer to, and that's Linux Conf
Australia - they've managed to keep the developer vibe over the last 6
years. It's an awesomely fun conference, very technical, and a perfect
opportunity for different groups to sync up over the course of 5 days.

>From my perspective, I think the user groups should be primarily focused
on being able to provide booths at their local conferences, and
submitting talks/papers/tutorials for them, along with their regular
meetings in whichever town they are in. There's lots of conferences out
there, and the best way to spread our message is from the people who are
using the technology.

But yeah, completely agree with everything you've said. Rocking ;)


Glynn

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