[ug-bosug] Ideas for bosug

[Sriram Narayanan]

On 3/21/07, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    The hackathon idea is cool. I know that *BSD and Gentoo folks have
> similar kind of events.
> But I also feel that it may be a little early for this. To be successful
> in this event we need
> familiarity with OpenSolaris to build up sufficiently high among the group.
>



> To add to this we were also thinking of having an installfest for Bosug
> members which might be
> a good starting point. Folks can bring in their laptops and even their
> desktops (without monitors
> and keyboards) and get the latest OpenSolaris installed/configured. It
> will require quite a bit of
> planning. Due to the logistics involved (hardware, net connection, etc.)
> this cannot be held inside
> SUN office. We cannot connect outside machines into SWAN.
>

I can get my laptop this weekend, and we can have another machine
connected back to back which could host stuff that we'd otherwise have
to download. I can get the network cable too - I always carry a cable
with me.

I know just what I need to have added - Broadcom network driver,
NVidia Video driver, Laptop tools, Moinak's Gnome customizations. We
could ask other folks to run the HCL tool at the bigadmin site, post
the results and then download drivers for them in advance.

But then, all this would be possible only for laptop users, I think.
Bringing desktops into Sun may indeed not be feasible.

-- Sriram