(additional) Re: [ug-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] BayLISA Presentation Report

[Tim Foster]

Oh, hey - meant to mention : that's really nice presentation Ben!
(well worth watching for everyone else - I'm sold too :-)

[ note to self - must spend time extracting the audio of some of the
videos we've got to mp3 so people could listen to them on their iPods -
would that be useful, or am I the only one looking for that sort of
thing ? ]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 21:14 -0800, Tim Foster wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 10:16 -0800, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> > Very nice, Ben. I see Simon's blog has a link to the video:
> > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2137587736484753992
> > It will make a nice addition to the user group presentation page.
> 
> Uh, right - is this where I step in ? Sorry - I've been in wall to wall
> meetings for the last few days here in MPK (and a fairly considerable
> amount of lunches, it has to be said!) and I haven't been able to keep
> up with emails...  Anyway a link to that video is up on the preso page
> now at
> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/os-presentations/
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up Jim!
> 
> 	cheers,
> 			tim
> 
> 
> > Jim
> > --
> > Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris
> > http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
> > 
> > 
> > Ben Rockwood wrote:
> > > I presented on Solaris/OpenSolaris last night at BayLISA (baylisa.org).  
> > > It was the annual "Short but Cool" evening, where a variety of 
> > > presenters are present and each get about 20 minutes to speak.  We ended 
> > > up having 6 preso's ranging from 'DragonFly BSD MP kernel mechanisms' 
> > > which was highly technical to  'Novell and Linux' which was pure marketing.
> > > Given the audience and time time span I was really constricted on what I 
> > > could get into, so I opted to do a presentation entitled "New Directions 
> > > of Solaris in an Open World".  I highlighted features in Solaris10, a 
> > > brief history of Tonic/OpenSolaris, highlighted features of OpenSolaris, 
> > > and then tried to demystify all the various ways to get Solaris 
> > > (Solaris, SX, SX:CR, OpenSolaris Source, OpenSolaris BFU's, Distros) and 
> > > pointed to resources.  There was a liberal amount of segue in the course 
> > > of it.
> > > 
> > > The presentation flew by.  The 25 minutes that I was up felt more like 
> > > 10 and we covered very little ground but always stayed focused on the 
> > > audience, System Administrators, and the deep level of community 
> > > involvement that we have, including the fact that I, their humble 
> > > presenter, was a community member, not an employee of Sun.  They really 
> > > seemed to respond well to the talk.  The message I got was that most of 
> > > them were jaded by the Sun marketing speak and didn't want to hear it 
> > > and really opened up to everything I had to present with an open mind.  
> > > I even made sure to remind them that they all, as Sun users and 
> > > customers, were members of this community as well, whether they 
> > > participate or not is their choice.
> > > 
> > > Because of my time constraints and because I don't have a laptop I used 
> > > my wifes Apple PowerBook and did the slides in Apple KeyNote.  Since the 
> > > meeting was at Apple I thought that was probably OK.  I'll redo the 
> > > slides in OO and put them up for those interested.
> > > 
> > > I've been asked to come back some time later in the year and give a full 
> > > 2+ hour presentation.  When I do that presentation I'll be doing a very 
> > > targeted "OpenSolaris for System Administrators" where I put focus on 
> > > topics that are of direct interest to all sysadmins regardless of skill 
> > > level, such as SMF, Zones, and ZFS, and try to focus a little less on 
> > > DTrace which goes over the heads of some sysadmins.
> > > 
> > > Thank you very much to Teresa for providing me with a swag kit.  I was 
> > > the only presenter with swag, and the audience loved it.  I gave out S10 
> > > DVD's (6) to the few people in the room that hadn't used S10 before and 
> > > gave out shirts (2) and hats (2) to the most worthy souls.
> > > 
> > > The crowd was good, I'd assume we had about 50'ish people present.  All 
> > > the seats were full and several people standing.
> > 
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Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group
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