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

[Shawn Walker]

On 19/09/2007, Tim Foster <Tim.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 16:56 -0700, Jesse Silver wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why servers ? I thought this was a collective "bang our heads together"
> meeting, rather than an actual hackfest ? If if everyone has their noses
> buried in laptops for the duration of the weekend, then I'm not sure
> we'll have achieved our aims imho.
>
> [ I'm not bringing a laptop  (yeah okay, mostly because I don't have
> one ;-) ]

There may be a few folks in the later hours of the conference that get
very little chance for "bang their heads together on a software
problem time." Otherwise, I tend to agree that I hope that this is
more about problem solving than hacking...

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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