[opensolaris-summit] OS Summit topic proposal

[Alan DuBoff]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

>> We have Tech Days that travels around, and does present similar
>> session, most of similar length however.
>>
>> This is something that might be worth talking to Chris Atwood about,
>> he's in charge of training at Sun, and offering courses for that
>> purpose (i.e., SunU).
>
> One question, and I don't know what the answer is, is how SunU fits in
> with what I was talking about.

I can't speak for those folks, but I have talked to them. I have pointed 
out to them that we need a more cost effective solution, to educate the 
community.

I would like to see something creative, like using a black box that we 
drop ship to a specific location to accomodate folks for such training. Or 
using universities as a venue where we could do that with an army of 
laptops. There are various ways we could leverage new ideas and concepts 
to the old fashioned SunU methodology. My $0.02.

> SunU charges lots of $$$ for their courses.  But you get certified
> instructors, course materials, and hands-on lab time.
>
> What I was talking about was something that would be free, might cover
> topics that SunU doesn't (such as new information relating specifically
> to Nevada), and would be downloadable.

Yes, we're talking about the same thing, but after I contacted and/or 
talked to them myself, I felt it would be a better investment of time and 
$$$s to produce our own content and post it ourselves, and be done with 
it.

> I don't know how we avoid stepping on toes, etc.  Anyway, I'm going to
> back away from this for now, only because what I'm hearing is a lot of
> reasons why it won't work, and not enough reason/request/desire to see
> such a thing work out.  I have enough stuff on m plate to do that I know
> people want not to spend time spinning my wheels on stuff other people
> aren't interested in.

I think there is interest, just that in the global community we're in now, 
it needs to be leveraged in a way that can encapsulate those folks and be 
able to reach them in their specific locales. Providing streaming content 
is one such way, and one of the more likely ones. The folks that are 
initmately associated with OpenSolaris.org must not have that on the top 
of their list, which is understandable, but I think it's a very important 
aspect for our community. Apple would have had QuickTime content riddled 
throughout the site had they rolled something out, and as such Apple does 
think differently, at least than Sun.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group