[opensolaris-summit] Minutes of the 9/18 Summit Meetings

[Jesse Silver]

Today we held our second round of weekly 8am PST and 3pm PST planning 
meetings. Thanks to those who participated. Though there are still many 
unanswered questions, we're making great headway. Hope to see more of 
you next week.

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Despite a late start, our 8am PST meeting turned out to be lively and 
well attended. Thanks to the following people for participating (please 
correct the record if I've missed anyone):
Darren Reed
Stuart Kreitman
Tim Foster
Dennis Clarke
Stefan Teleman
John Plocher
Jesse Silver

Discussion on Format of Sessions:
-We are looking for session leaders & secretaries for each topic.
-We should set up a mechanism for decisions to be reflected back to the 
community and voted on
-Suggestion: ask session leaders to make proposition cards 
(deliverables) at the end of each session, then put deliverables up to a 
community vote

Session Topics & Priorities:
- Availability, accessibility of up-to-date open source software for 
OpenSolaris
- How to increase relevance of OpenSolaris
- How to get young (Linux) developers involved in OpenSolaris community, 
and developing software on OpenSolaris

IT Services Update:
- We have a UCSC engineer on-site all day both days.
- We have wireless and wired internet access throughout the meeting 
facilities.
- Stewart Kreitman will talk with the UCSC IT Dept. to make sure our 
bandwidth, security, redundancy and other requirements are met.

Media Services Update:
- We need people to volunteer to lead the video/audio streaming effort.
- There are 5 rooms: 1x 100 people, 2x 59 people, 2x 35 people. Should 
all these rooms be streamed live? Group is tending toward yes.
- We are looking at the possibility of setting up 2 projectors in each 
room so that an IRC chat window can be projected, providing remote 
interactivity.

Attendance:
-Should Solaris/OpenSolaris vendors be invited?

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Glynn Foster
Al Hopper
Roland Mainz
Shawn Walker
Jesse Silver
Brian Gupta
John Plocher
Sara Dornsife

Most people think we should avoid a nailed down schedule. We will flesh 
out the topics already proposed on the Wiki, sort them into tracks 
(process vs. technical or something similar), and create a Wiki page 
where people can vote on topics/sessions they'd like to participate in.

Some new topics:
- Driver development tutorial
- Roland Mainz doing a “developing on OpenSolaris” talk, ksh93
- Do we want to talk about naming?

Key Proposals:
- Maybe we should not preschedule anything but lightning talks.
- Make priority list for topics based on how close the topic gets us to 
the next release of Indiana.
- Split tracks by user oriented, political oriented, developer oriented 
etc...
- How about splitting tracks by process/infrastructure (governance, user 
etc... site) side, and technical (packaging, installing etc...) side.
- Maybe 5 minute lightning talks instead of 10?
- Set up web based system for voting on topics.
- Let's expand the topic suggestions from a few words to a paragraph.

Action Items:
- Update Wiki, adding fields to expand on the topic suggestions.
- Add voting system to Wiki

Server availability-
Suggestions:
- Have as many different kinds of machines available as possible, split 
between Sparc and x86.
- Have at least one central server, stable and powerful, like an M4000 
with a bunch of storage.
- Get a team together to set up the servers on Friday, coordinate with 
the UCSC engineering staff to make sure nothing goes wrong, etc...