[osol-mktg] Re: [ug-discuss] JavaOne pod in Sun booth

[Kaiwai Gardiner]

On 3/24/07, Alan DuBoff <Alan.DuBoff at sun.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday 23 March 2007 04:07 pm, Sara Dornsife wrote:
> > In order to make sure that we're covered the whole time I have to ask
> > for schedules. When will you be available?
>
> I will be up at Moscone for most of the 4 days, and not exactly sure of a
> schedule...haven't thought about it much as this is March, that is May.
>
> > OpenSolaris Day is part of CommunityOne (the thing I had asked people to
> > submit talks for) which occurs on Monday May 7th at Moscone. We are
> > still working out what the 4 sessions will be. The day is free. All are
> > welcome.
>
> Hopefuly someone is doing a "Getting Started with OpenSolaris" type
> session if
> you're thinking of attracting new members to the community. How to get
> Solaris/OpenSolaris installed, where to get tools (aside from what is
> included), how to become involved in the community, etc...I would be
> willing
> to give one on such a topic if you were interested, although I don't have
> one
> ready, I could do one.
>
> I also hope you might have a session on DTracing Java Apps. Seems like
> Phil
> Harman and John Haslam might have been interested in that. That would be
> an
> excellent pair of folks to have on that, but if not I would try to get
> someone such as Brendan Gregg and/or other DTrace folks to present that if
> they were available. I would target this as one of the 4 topics for
> certain.



True, and offer some freebies to those who attend; the Developer Edition of
Solaris Express is a great idea; hopefully the stats will change, and
OpenSolaris will become the dominating platform for which Java development
can occur on - and hey, if they like it, maybe they'll install it on their
home computer, friends computer etc. etc.

Showing the latest build will also demostrate where Solaris is heading to in
the way of development - when compared to the current 'stable' release
(11/06) and Developer Edition - hopefully if they see how far things have
come, it might just recruit some more contributors to the OpenSolaris
community.

As for me, I'm running B60 of SX:CE, its rock solid, no breakages or
anything, I think when people think 'express' they think the worse; thats
how I viewed it when I heard those words, but I was quickly corrected that
the submissions in terms of fixes and features go through the same rigorous
testing as with the other Solaris development; which eased my concerns, and
after installing it, I've yet to have any problems - so all is good :-)

Matthew
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