[osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] Google Summer of Code: Call for OpenSolaris Participation

[Tim Foster]

Hi All,

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 14:11 -0700, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> > Sure, I can mentor someone if needed, although I'm not exactly sure
> > what's involved ;)

Me too :-)

I also like Glynn's list - I think the contents of /usr/demo from
Solaris Express get should get fleshed out with this new content
whenever it comes along[1]. (is /usr/demo also in other distributions ?)

Perhaps also find a way to bundle Brendan's DTrace toolkit in /usr/demo
if he's okay with that ?

I had started to think that us authoring a DVD that we could post to
journalists and reviewers which showed any recorded demos we have would
further lower the barrier for them to be able to write about OpenSolaris
-- they'd just pop it in their drive, get some popcorn and start to take
notes. [ it being a traditional movie-dvd, rather than an os-on-a-disc ]

Another solution is to get the various LiveCD distributions to the point
where they work seamlessly out of the box, and have an /etc/motd message
or splash screen on first login that says something like :

#
# Welcome to <dist> based on OpenSolaris
#   
#   for a demo of the technologies in OpenSolaris
#    Go to Launch -> Sound & Video -> OpenSolaris Demo
#   or type "/usr/demo/opensolaris-demo"
#

Doesn't have to be an all-singing, all-dancing media extravaganza - even
a script that loads the flash demos in sequence in a browser could be
enough ?


	cheers,
			tim


[1] and if we don't get any takers, I should really start to put some of
these demos together myself - doing flash movies isn't that hard...

-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group
Engineering Operations            http://blogs.sun.com/timf

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