From malcolm.kavalsky at sun.com Thu Dec 1 00:50:08 2005 From: malcolm.kavalsky at sun.com (Malcolm Kavalsky) Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:50:08 +0200 Subject: [ug-discuss] Re: [ug-iosug] REMINDER: 1st Israel OpenSolaris User Group meeting tomorrow, Dec 1 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <438EB940.1040402@sun.com> Parking: Don't forget to bring the ticket to the meeting, and I will get it stamped here. Cheers, Malcolm Cyril Plisko wrote: >REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER > >1st IOSUG meeting > >When: Dec 1, 2005 at 17:00 >Where: Sun Microsystems office in Herzeliya, HaManofim st, 9 >(Accerstein Towers, Tower A, 8th floor) >There is an underground parking lot right beneath the building. > > >Agenda: > >1. OpenSolaris overview >2. Demos >3. Group discussion on the mandate/future of the Israeli chapter >4. Q&A > >Join our mailing list by looking for "iosug" at the following: >http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/discussions/ > >Thanks and we hope to see you there! >= IOSUG (Israel OpenSolaris User Group) = >_______________________________________________ >ug-iosug mailing list >ug-iosug at opensolaris.org > > > From Ulf at Andreasson.co.uk Thu Dec 1 16:35:37 2005 From: Ulf at Andreasson.co.uk (Ulf Andreasson) Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:35:37 +0000 Subject: [ug-discuss] London OSUG presos and pictures online ..... Message-ID: <438F96D9.4090309@Andreasson.co.uk> hi all, Yes I know .... it was a long time ago since we had the first OSUG meeting in London but finally I have updated the http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/losug with presos and pictures (sub page) so if you want to add them here too, please do :) reg//ulf From Tim.Foster at Sun.COM Mon Dec 5 06:51:50 2005 From: Tim.Foster at Sun.COM (Tim Foster) Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:51:50 +0000 Subject: [ug-discuss] London OSUG presos and pictures online ..... In-Reply-To: <438F96D9.4090309@Andreasson.co.uk> References: <438F96D9.4090309@Andreasson.co.uk> Message-ID: <1133794310.29632.150.camel@haiiro> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 00:35 +0000, Ulf Andreasson wrote: > Yes I know .... it was a long time ago since we had the first OSUG > meeting in London but finally I have updated the > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/losug with > presos and pictures (sub page) so if you want to add them here > too, please do :) Excellent, thanks Ulf - I've updated the list of all the presentations at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/os-presentations/ ... oh, and I guess I should send out a reminder: if you've done talks or presentations that you think should be listed on that page, let me know and I'll add them to it (I've been trying to keep on top of all of these, but I fear one or two may have slipped through the cracks in recent weeks) cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operations http://blogs.sun.com/timf From Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM Mon Dec 5 12:17:32 2005 From: Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM (Jim Grisanzio) Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:17:32 -0800 Subject: [ug-discuss] London OSUG presos and pictures online ..... In-Reply-To: <1133794310.29632.150.camel@haiiro> References: <438F96D9.4090309@Andreasson.co.uk> <1133794310.29632.150.camel@haiiro> Message-ID: <4394A05C.5050103@sun.com> Tim Foster wrote: > ... oh, and I guess I should send out a reminder: if you've done talks > or presentations that you think should be listed on that page, let me > know and I'll add them to it (I've been trying to keep on top of all of > these, but I fear one or two may have slipped through the cracks in > recent weeks) Thanks so much, Tim. I did a BOF at JavaOne Tokyo on Nov 10 with Akira Ohsone. Slides attached. Pics here: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jimgris?entry=opensolaris_bof_at_javaone_tokyo Jim --- Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <1133794310.29632.150.camel@haiiro> References: <438F96D9.4090309@Andreasson.co.uk> <1133794310.29632.150.camel@haiiro> Message-ID: <43973448.60704@sun.com> Tim Foster wrote: > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/os-presentations/ > ... oh, and I guess I should send out a reminder: if you've done talks > or presentations that you think should be listed on that page, let me > know and I'll add them to it (I've been trying to keep on top of all of > these, but I fear one or two may have slipped through the cracks in > recent weeks) Tim ... attached is a preso (in Japanese) for an OpenSolaris session that Akira Ohsone did on OpenSolaris at JavaOne Tokyo on Thurs Nov 10. Feel free to post it. I shot some images as well: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jimgris?entry=solaris_opensolaris_session_at_javaone Also, the BOF that we did later that evening was on Nov 10th as well, not the 20th. The page looks really beautiful, by the way. Thanks, Jim --- Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OpenSolaris.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 92256 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com Tue Dec 13 10:25:14 2005 From: Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com (Alan DuBoff) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:25:14 -0800 Subject: [ug-discuss] SVOSUG - Tues. Dec. 20, BrandZ (and annual potluck) Message-ID: <200512131025.14154.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> For the month of December, the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group is pleased to announce the first annual open-potluck. Everyone is welcome, please bring something to share with the community, or just come along to enjoy the meeting. Since a potluck is very much in the community spirit, we thought it would be nice to have an annual potluck during Dec. to wrap up the year. For the annual event we'll be getting a presentation on BrandZ from Nils Nieuwejaar, project lead. Did you know that BrandZ enables Linux Binary Applications to run unmodified on Solaris 10? Did you know that BrandZ is an extention of the Zone architecture and allows running said applications inside of a Zone? Well, of course we didn't expect you to know all about BrandZ and why we're having this presentation, please join us at the Silicon Valley User Group on Tues. Dec. 20th to find out exactly what BrandZ can do for you, and how you can leverage this technology to provide robust solutions on Solaris/OpenSolaris. If you can, please join the fun and be a part of the first annual SVOSUG community potluck, and help wrap up 2005 by sharing something with your fellow OpenSolaris community members. What: BrandZ Where: Sun Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (upstairs) When: Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm (we must be out of the room by 11:00pm) What to bring? Anything, really. Bring a dish you made yourself, something you got at the store, or something prepared by a resturaunt. Or even just show up and share the friendship of other OpenSolaris community members even if you don't have time or energy to bring something. Everyone is welcome, as always! Please contact me if you have any question. You can get directions to the Sun Santa Clara Campus at the following link: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/aland/scasj_dirmap.pdf (Auditorium is building SCA03) -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering From sks at cvok.co.uk Tue Dec 13 11:02:26 2005 From: sks at cvok.co.uk (Sean Sprague) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:02:26 +0000 Subject: [ug-discuss] SVOSUG - Tues. Dec. 20, BrandZ (and annual potluck) In-Reply-To: <200512131025.14154.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> References: <200512131025.14154.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> Message-ID: <439F1AC2.7060706@cvok.co.uk> Alan! > For the month of December, the Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group is > pleased to announce the first annual open-potluck. Everyone is welcome, > please bring something to share with the community, or just come along to > enjoy the meeting. Since a potluck is very much in the community spirit, we > thought it would be nice to have an annual potluck during Dec. to wrap up the > year. Pah! We thought that we would be the group to hold an OpenSolaris User Group session as late as possible in December. Ours is on the 19th: so it appears that we have been usurped by yours on the 20th ;-( Hope that you have a great BYOB/BYOF//ESEF/DSEB (Bring Your Own Booze/Bring Your Own Food//Eat Someone Else's Food/Drink Someone Else's Booze) event! And look forward to seeing the BrandZ preso on-line; and maybe even getting Nils over to London sometime in 2006 - would be a great crowd-puller here also. Regards... Sean. From Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM Tue Dec 13 16:51:35 2005 From: Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM (Jim Grisanzio) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:51:35 -0800 Subject: [ug-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] OpenSolaris Presentation Slides In-Reply-To: <439F4EE5.6090402@Andreasson.co.uk> References: <439DDC76.9080206@cuddletech.com> <20051213052724.GB875501@jurassic.eng.sun.com> <439E7491.1020503@cuddletech.com> <439E8371.7060901@sun.com> <439E8DD3.2020203@cuddletech.com> <439F15E8.5000605@sun.com> <439F4EE5.6090402@Andreasson.co.uk> Message-ID: <439F6C97.8040102@sun.com> Here's an OpenSolaris preso template if anyone is interested in using it. Tim, please feel free to post to the user group preso page. Jim --- Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/ Ulf Andreasson wrote: > Jim > > I more than agree (wrt Chandans gfx and a commong OS template) .... > btw shouldn't we also have a place where people also can upload (login) > themes etc ..... his stuff is just so cool ;) > > reg//ulf > > > Jim Grisanzio wrote: > >> Ben Rockwood wrote: >> >>> What would be useful, if it isn't already posted some place that I'm >>> not seeing, is a set of OpenOffice templates that anyone can use to >>> start with. >> >> >> >> Do you like the Chandan look/feel of my slides to use as a template? >> I can post that for people to use. It's the closest thing we have to >> the look/feel of the site itself. I only use it because I like >> Chandan's stuff and I don't like Sun's. Otherwise, maybe we create a >> new template from scratch that comes from the community, not Sun. >> Everything else is Sun-branded slides, though. >> >>> Also, organizing some of the useful information on the project that >>> would be used in a preso into a single page would be nice as well >>> so that timely stats can be used, for instance. Right now I'm >>> dancing around email archives, discussion forums, and pages trying >>> to pull information together. >> >> >> >> Good idea. Maybe a new page in the marketing community drawing from >> multiple sources? I think Patrick has a really nice start with his >> metrics page: >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/metrics/ Maybe we >> expand that? What additional things should we track (question for >> everyone)? I think it's a great thing to have for both community >> marketing and user group activities. Also, we have the request-sponsor >> bug data here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/ >> >> Jim >> >> >> _______________________________________________ opensolaris-mktg >> mailing list opensolaris-mktg at opensolaris.org >> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 121305-opensolaris-preso-template.sti Type: application/vnd.sun.xml.impress.template Size: 41879 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Seng-Quee.Liang at Sun.COM Tue Dec 13 17:43:54 2005 From: Seng-Quee.Liang at Sun.COM (Seng-Quee.Liang) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:43:54 +0800 Subject: [ug-discuss] SVOSUG - Tues. Dec. 20, BrandZ (and annual potluck) In-Reply-To: <439F1AC2.7060706@cvok.co.uk> References: <200512131025.14154.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> <439F1AC2.7060706@cvok.co.uk> Message-ID: <1134524634.936.60.camel@galactica> > Pah! We thought that we would be the group to hold an > OpenSolaris User Group session as late as possible in > December. Ours is on the 19th: so it appears that we have > been usurped by yours on the 20th ;-( No worries ... Singapore OpenSolaris meeting is on 22 Dec :-P ... Best Regards, /SQ From Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com Wed Dec 14 19:18:14 2005 From: Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com (Alan DuBoff) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:18:14 -0800 Subject: [ug-discuss] Dec. meeting and pot luck Message-ID: <200512141918.14536.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> Ben, You probably saw my post for the Dec. meeting where BrandZ will be the topic. Another good timing on our part, since BrandZ was just released to OpenSolaris. What do you think about the pot luck? I was thinking it would be nice if we could get people to contribute the recipe of the dish they bring, and create a recipe list from the meeting. This would be true "open cooking", where the community gains a set of recipies from the items brought by all the members. Just wanted to get your thoughts on this idea, and what you thought about the pot luck in general, or if you'll be here. I've talked to a few folks who plan to bring something, so folks seem to be positive towards it. I'll cc ug-discuss on this also. Not sure if other user groups are interested in this idea of an annual pot luck, I kinda just brainstormed it at the last minute and James Liu offered to help and do his majic as well. He works with me in my department now. Comments from you or others appreciated. Feel free to blog about this event and post to any local lists that might have folks that come to our user group as well. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering From benr at cuddletech.com Wed Dec 14 22:44:20 2005 From: benr at cuddletech.com (Ben Rockwood) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:44:20 -0800 Subject: [ug-discuss] Re: Dec. meeting and pot luck In-Reply-To: <200512141918.14536.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> References: <200512141918.14536.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> Message-ID: <43A110C4.8050409@cuddletech.com> Alan DuBoff wrote: >Ben, > >You probably saw my post for the Dec. meeting where BrandZ will be the topic. >Another good timing on our part, since BrandZ was just released to >OpenSolaris. > > Ya, amazing timing. The fact that you announced that BrandZ would be the topic the day that BrandZ news broke was awesome. I can't wait. >What do you think about the pot luck? > > I'll be honest, I was skeptical at first. Its a great idea on paper, but due to prior experience a pot luck just conjures images of rotten egg dishes and 6 hour old cheese. Nasty. Never the less, this is what I love about you Alan, you don't just think talk about interesting ideas, you just do them. And I think its definately worth a shot. I agree with the recipe idea. In fact, I'd make it even more open, such that even those people who don't bring dishes could bring a recipe. I wouldn't expect much food though, simply because most of us come to the meeting straight from work. The idea of bringing food for the potluck to work is scary. I don't know how many people will follow through. But that doesn't matter. I was thinking about bringing my grill. Would that be a problem? I've got a little Webber 'Q' gas grill thats tiny. I was thinking about bringing steaks and chicken and just cooking 'em up prior to the meeting in the parking lot. >I was thinking it would be nice if we could get people to contribute the >recipe of the dish they bring, and create a recipe list from the meeting. >This would be true "open cooking", where the community gains a set of >recipies from the items brought by all the members. > >Just wanted to get your thoughts on this idea, and what you thought about the >pot luck in general, or if you'll be here. I've talked to a few folks who >plan to bring something, so folks seem to be positive towards it. > >I'll cc ug-discuss on this also. Not sure if other user groups are interested >in this idea of an annual pot luck, I kinda just brainstormed it at the last >minute and James Liu offered to help and do his majic as well. He works with >me in my department now. > >Comments from you or others appreciated. Feel free to blog about this event >and post to any local lists that might have folks that come to our user group >as well. > > > Breaking all the user group rules... SVOSUG is definately going to set the standard for progressive user groups. ;) Great idea Alan! Might be a huge hit, might fall flat, but either way it'll be interesting. I can't wait. benr. From benr at cuddletech.com Thu Dec 15 00:43:01 2005 From: benr at cuddletech.com (Ben Rockwood) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:43:01 -0800 Subject: [ug-discuss] Monthly Project Status and News Updates Message-ID: <43A12C95.2060708@cuddletech.com> Hey Alan, I was curious if we should start each meeting by doing a quick overview of OpenSolaris news prior to each meeting. Nothing grand or anything, but mention new releases, major topics of the month, big changes or projects that are in the works, etc. You could do it or I could. It might be useful for new people or those who aren't paying much attention. In addition, pointing out any persons of interest that are present at the meeting to assist attendees in locating people might be useful too. Maybe just doing the introductions around the room again might be a good idea. The only problem with introductions generally seems to be that we have enough people that straggle in during the first 30 minutes that not everyone is there. Just ideas to try and broaden the amount of information and oppertunity that each attendee gets. What are your feelings? I'm following your lead and CC'ing to ug-discuss. Anyone is welcome to comment on these topics or other "meeting flow" type suggestions. benr. From Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com Thu Dec 15 01:14:17 2005 From: Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com (Alan DuBoff) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:14:17 -0800 Subject: [ug-discuss] Re: Dec. meeting and pot luck In-Reply-To: <43A110C4.8050409@cuddletech.com> References: <200512141918.14536.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> <43A110C4.8050409@cuddletech.com> Message-ID: <200512150114.17709.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> On Wednesday 14 December 2005 10:44 pm, Ben Rockwood wrote: > Ya, amazing timing. The fact that you announced that BrandZ would be > the topic the day that BrandZ news broke was awesome. I can't wait. I hope you enjoy it. > I'll be honest, I was skeptical at first. Its a great idea on paper, > but due to prior experience a pot luck just conjures images of rotten > egg dishes and 6 hour old cheese. Nasty. No, I don't think so... > Never the less, this is what I love about you Alan, you don't just think > talk about interesting ideas, you just do them. And I think its > definately worth a shot. I agree with the recipe idea. In fact, I'd > make it even more open, such that even those people who don't bring > dishes could bring a recipe. I like the bring a recipe if you don't bring a dish...;-) But I never want to make anyone feel as "you didn't bring a recipe". The recipe seems to fit into being open, right? It's kind of like, "I'll even tell you how I made it".;-) The recipe also presents "I made this" rather than "I stopped at the mini-mart on the way because it seemed to be the politically correct thing to do". > I wouldn't expect much food though, simply because most of us come to > the meeting straight from work. The idea of bringing food for the > potluck to work is scary. I don't know how many people will follow > through. But that doesn't matter. James Liu came over to my team and is working with me recentely, and he's actually catered a 40 person lunch in that room, so he knows what this could be. But honestly, I wanted this to be a pot luck, and if folks want to bring something they can, and if not, it's no big deal and they're still welcome to join us to eat whatever is brought. > I was thinking about bringing my grill. Would that be a problem? I've > got a little Webber 'Q' gas grill thats tiny. I was thinking about > bringing steaks and chicken and just cooking 'em up prior to the meeting > in the parking lot. Yeah, that's what I thought also. But you don't want to start talking about fires in the parking lot. You aren't even allowed to dump the coals in the trash without several stipulations (basically you need to let the coals sit overnight;-). James Liu told me the same thing, and talked me out of that. > Breaking all the user group rules... SVOSUG is definately going to set > the standard for progressive user groups. ;) > > Great idea Alan! Might be a huge hit, might fall flat, but either way > it'll be interesting. I can't wait. Lead, follow, or get out of the way... -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering From Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com Thu Dec 15 01:28:48 2005 From: Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com (Alan DuBoff) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:28:48 -0800 Subject: [ug-discuss] Monthly Project Status and News Updates In-Reply-To: <43A12C95.2060708@cuddletech.com> References: <43A12C95.2060708@cuddletech.com> Message-ID: <200512150128.48863.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> On Thursday 15 December 2005 12:43 am, Ben Rockwood wrote: > I was curious if we should start each meeting by doing a quick > overview of OpenSolaris news prior to each meeting. Nothing grand or > anything, but mention new releases, major topics of the month, big > changes or projects that are in the works, etc. You could do it or I > could. It might be useful for new people or those who aren't paying > much attention. I try to offer any news I know about, and everyone is certainly welcome to chime in, yourself included. Don't be shy! I try to encourage audience participation as much as I can, but feel free to pipe in. > In addition, pointing out any persons of interest that are present at > the meeting to assist attendees in locating people might be useful too. > Maybe just doing the introductions around the room again might be a good > idea. The only problem with introductions generally seems to be that we > have enough people that straggle in during the first 30 minutes that not > everyone is there. This is typically a waste of time to do all the time. Best to utilize the networking time that we do have to find out who those folks are yourself, IMO. This is true of most every user group. > What are your feelings? I'm following your lead and CC'ing to > ug-discuss. Anyone is welcome to comment on these topics or other > "meeting flow" type suggestions. I think that's what it's for, but don't think there are many folks from the community on it. It seems we should use our own private list possibly, and encourage others in the area to sign up for it. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering From benr at cuddletech.com Thu Dec 15 01:50:05 2005 From: benr at cuddletech.com (Ben Rockwood) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:50:05 -0800 Subject: [ug-discuss] Monthly Project Status and News Updates In-Reply-To: <200512150128.48863.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> References: <43A12C95.2060708@cuddletech.com> <200512150128.48863.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> Message-ID: <43A13C4D.4050201@cuddletech.com> Alan DuBoff wrote: >On Thursday 15 December 2005 12:43 am, Ben Rockwood wrote: > > >> I was curious if we should start each meeting by doing a quick >>overview of OpenSolaris news prior to each meeting. Nothing grand or >>anything, but mention new releases, major topics of the month, big >>changes or projects that are in the works, etc. You could do it or I >>could. It might be useful for new people or those who aren't paying >>much attention. >> >> > >I try to offer any news I know about, and everyone is certainly welcome to >chime in, yourself included. Don't be shy! I try to encourage audience >participation as much as I can, but feel free to pipe in. > > I guess its a diffrence in style. For instance, BayLISA tends to do announcements similar to the way we do at SVOSUG, where if there is something of note its mentioned, and generally an offer is made for anyone with news to speak up. Brief and simple. On the other hand, SVLUG tends to have a more formal sort of methodical schedual. With a formal welcoming, outline, upcoming events, recent activity reports, and things like that. The kind of news and such that I'm talking about would be more in the vien of SVLUG, probly with news that may or may not interest people. "B28 was release, some of the new features include...", "The X community has posted a proposal on XYZ and is looking for...", "Such and such had a great blog about..." You get the idea. I like this idea of a monthly review, but it could quickly get out of hand simply because so much is going on. On the upside it could increase awareness, but frankly if they bother to look at the blogs they should already know all this stuff anyway. >> In addition, pointing out any persons of interest that are present at >>the meeting to assist attendees in locating people might be useful too. >>Maybe just doing the introductions around the room again might be a good >>idea. The only problem with introductions generally seems to be that we >>have enough people that straggle in during the first 30 minutes that not >>everyone is there. >> >> > >This is typically a waste of time to do all the time. Best to utilize the >networking time that we do have to find out who those folks are yourself, >IMO. This is true of most every user group. > > I agree. Basically its just a way for shy people like myself to find out who people are without going up and asking them. For instance, if Stephen Hahn has ever been at SVOSUG I'm unaware of it, and if he came this month, I probly wouldn't notice him. Another example was 2 months ago when the leader of the Docs community came to the meeting but I didn't know what she looked like, so I had to go around the room to all the women and try to politly ask if they were with the docs community. So, this is a shelfish request on the outside but I imagine others might be the same boat. On a related note, the panels you did before were kool. They seem like a bit much to do every month but it might be a good idea to schedual them quarterly or something. >> What are your feelings? I'm following your lead and CC'ing to >>ug-discuss. Anyone is welcome to comment on these topics or other >>"meeting flow" type suggestions. >> >> > >I think that's what it's for, but don't think there are many folks from the >community on it. It seems we should use our own private list possibly, and >encourage others in the area to sign up for it. > > I'm CC'ing to our list. Although, SVOSUG is the UG that sets the standard and is leading the pack, so I'd view our issues as being of interest to others as well. If someone disagrees we'll take it to the SVOSUG list exclusively. benr. From Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com Thu Dec 15 02:57:54 2005 From: Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com (Alan DuBoff) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 02:57:54 -0800 Subject: [ug-discuss] Monthly Project Status and News Updates In-Reply-To: <43A13C4D.4050201@cuddletech.com> References: <43A12C95.2060708@cuddletech.com> <200512150128.48863.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> <43A13C4D.4050201@cuddletech.com> Message-ID: <200512150257.54898.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> On Thursday 15 December 2005 01:50 am, Ben Rockwood wrote: > I guess its a diffrence in style. I'll mention at the next meeting and see if anyone has anything they want to announce. You better have something!;-) > BayLISA tends to... > SVLUG tends to... We are our own group. If we can learn from something they do, we should adopt things. > On the upside it could increase awareness, but frankly if > they bother to look at the blogs they should already know all this stuff > anyway. I don't think everyone has time to read all the blogs out there. I know I don't. > I agree. Basically its just a way for shy people like myself to find > out who people are without going up and asking them. Pfftt. You've had it now, I just blew ice tea all over my keyboard...if everyone was as shy as you, it wouldn't be a problem. > Stephen Hahn has ever been at SVOSUG I'm unaware of it, and if he came > this month, I probly wouldn't notice him. Yes he has. I'm almost certain he has been to at least one, if not more. I'll try to introduce some people out from Sun at the meetings. > I'm CC'ing to our list. Although, SVOSUG is the UG that sets the > standard and is leading the pack, so I'd view our issues as being of > interest to others as well. If someone disagrees we'll take it to the > SVOSUG list exclusively. Ok. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering From Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM Thu Dec 15 08:23:24 2005 From: Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM (Laura Ramsey) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:23:24 -0500 Subject: [ug-discuss] Monthly Project Status and News Updates In-Reply-To: <43A12C95.2060708@cuddletech.com> References: <43A12C95.2060708@cuddletech.com> Message-ID: <43A1987C.1090207@sun.com> Not a bad idea... I have an OpenSolaris Index that I would be willing to keep updated and published on the user group page for fast reference-- it would be a basis --not expected to be *.* --just a good starting point. OPENSOLARIS INDEX ================== % 33 Community projects underway--highlights include: -Solaris to PowerPC -Laptop usability and Wireless drivers for Solaris 10 (most cards now supported!) -4 distributions of OpenSolaris code now available: +Solaris 10 + SchilliX + BeliniX + Nebuntu -FreeBSD Port of DTrace is underway --remarkable to the Linux community that Sun is encouraging ports! % 25 Registered OpenSolaris User Groups worldwide--highlights include: -Representation on every continent except Antartica (too many penguins there I guess) -Average number of attendees at meetings: 30 (highest attendance averages: Bejing: 75 Silicon Valley: 75 % Open sourced technologies on OpenSolaris: -GrokSource Source Browser (open sourced 11/05)--Java-based--averages less than 2 milliseconds for obscure text searches! -ZFS (open sourced 11/05 and added to Solaris Express Community Edition code base in Build 28) -XEN project participation (mgmt of Solaris OS to virtualized server environment) ( demonstrated 11/05) -Solaris Containers for Red Hat Linux Binary Apps (to be integrated by end of year) -ON portions of OpenSolaris (Networking, Commands, Libraries--10M lines of code) (6/14) -DTrace (open sourced 1/05 during opensolaris.org pilot phase) % Cumulative Community Growth Totals: -10,400 registered community members (9,200 + Non-Sun, 1,100 are Sun employees) -13,500 postings to OpenSolaris discussion groups -26,000 recorded downloads of OpenSolaris (actual is probably higher --some download sites can't be tracked) -73 mail lists/forums -55 community contributions offered to OpenSolaris -17 community contributions integrated into OpenSolaris (Putbacks) Cool Links: ======== Announcements-- http://opensolaris.org/os/announcements/ OpenMinds Documentary-- http://opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/articles_videos_stuff/ Events-- http://opensolaris.org/os/events/ News--Gratuitous clips--we don't usually post the negative stuff http://opensolaris.org/os/news/ # # # Ben Rockwood wrote: > Hey Alan, > > I was curious if we should start each meeting by doing a quick > overview of OpenSolaris news prior to each meeting. Nothing grand or > anything, but mention new releases, major topics of the month, big > changes or projects that are in the works, etc. You could do it or I > could. It might be useful for new people or those who aren't paying > much attention. > > In addition, pointing out any persons of interest that are present at > the meeting to assist attendees in locating people might be useful > too. Maybe just doing the introductions around the room again might > be a good idea. The only problem with introductions generally seems > to be that we have enough people that straggle in during the first 30 > minutes that not everyone is there. > Just ideas to try and broaden the amount of information and > oppertunity that each attendee gets. > > What are your feelings? I'm following your lead and CC'ing to > ug-discuss. Anyone is welcome to comment on these topics or other > "meeting flow" type suggestions. > > benr. > _______________________________________________ > ug-discuss mailing list > ug-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 144 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM Thu Dec 15 08:27:09 2005 From: Laura.Ramsey at Sun.COM (Laura Ramsey) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:27:09 -0500 Subject: [ug-discuss] Monthly Project Status and News Updates In-Reply-To: <43A13C4D.4050201@cuddletech.com> References: <43A12C95.2060708@cuddletech.com> <200512150128.48863.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> <43A13C4D.4050201@cuddletech.com> Message-ID: <43A1995D.60400@sun.com> Let's keep the discussion on the general ug-discuss list so that all the leads can have the benefit of the great ideas flowing! LKR Ben Rockwood wrote: > Alan DuBoff wrote: > >> On Thursday 15 December 2005 12:43 am, Ben Rockwood wrote: >> >> >>> I was curious if we should start each meeting by doing a quick >>> overview of OpenSolaris news prior to each meeting. Nothing grand or >>> anything, but mention new releases, major topics of the month, big >>> changes or projects that are in the works, etc. You could do it or I >>> could. It might be useful for new people or those who aren't paying >>> much attention. >>> >> >> >> I try to offer any news I know about, and everyone is certainly >> welcome to chime in, yourself included. Don't be shy! I try to >> encourage audience participation as much as I can, but feel free to >> pipe in. >> >> > I guess its a diffrence in style. > > For instance, BayLISA tends to do announcements similar to the way we > do at SVOSUG, where if there is something of note its mentioned, and > generally an offer is made for anyone with news to speak up. Brief > and simple. > > On the other hand, SVLUG tends to have a more formal sort of > methodical schedual. With a formal welcoming, outline, upcoming > events, recent activity reports, and things like that. > The kind of news and such that I'm talking about would be more in the > vien of SVLUG, probly with news that may or may not interest people. > "B28 was release, some of the new features include...", "The X > community has posted a proposal on XYZ and is looking for...", "Such > and such had a great blog about..." You get the idea. I like this > idea of a monthly review, but it could quickly get out of hand simply > because so much is going on. On the upside it could increase > awareness, but frankly if they bother to look at the blogs they should > already know all this stuff anyway. > >>> In addition, pointing out any persons of interest that are present at >>> the meeting to assist attendees in locating people might be useful too. >>> Maybe just doing the introductions around the room again might be a >>> good >>> idea. The only problem with introductions generally seems to be >>> that we >>> have enough people that straggle in during the first 30 minutes that >>> not >>> everyone is there. >>> >> >> >> This is typically a waste of time to do all the time. Best to utilize >> the networking time that we do have to find out who those folks are >> yourself, IMO. This is true of most every user group. >> >> > I agree. Basically its just a way for shy people like myself to find > out who people are without going up and asking them. For instance, if > Stephen Hahn has ever been at SVOSUG I'm unaware of it, and if he came > this month, I probly wouldn't notice him. Another example was 2 > months ago when the leader of the Docs community came to the meeting > but I didn't know what she looked like, so I had to go around the room > to all the women and try to politly ask if they were with the docs > community. So, this is a shelfish request on the outside but I > imagine others might be the same boat. > > On a related note, the panels you did before were kool. They seem > like a bit much to do every month but it might be a good idea to > schedual them quarterly or something. > >>> What are your feelings? I'm following your lead and CC'ing to >>> ug-discuss. Anyone is welcome to comment on these topics or other >>> "meeting flow" type suggestions. >>> >> >> >> I think that's what it's for, but don't think there are many folks >> from the community on it. It seems we should use our own private list >> possibly, and encourage others in the area to sign up for it. >> >> > I'm CC'ing to our list. Although, SVOSUG is the UG that sets the > standard and is leading the pack, so I'd view our issues as being of > interest to others as well. If someone disagrees we'll take it to the > SVOSUG list exclusively. > > benr. > > _______________________________________________ > ug-discuss mailing list > ug-discuss at opensolaris.org From Takaaki.Higuchi at Sun.COM Fri Dec 16 12:14:35 2005 From: Takaaki.Higuchi at Sun.COM (Takaaki Higuchi) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:14:35 +0900 Subject: [ug-discuss] Monthly Project Status and News Updates In-Reply-To: <43A1987C.1090207@sun.com> References: <43A12C95.2060708@cuddletech.com> <43A1987C.1090207@sun.com> Message-ID: <43A3202B.6090502@Sun.COM> Laura Ramsey wrote: > -4 distributions of OpenSolaris code now available: > +Solaris 10 I think this should not be Solaris 10, but Solaris next (Nevada). Otherwise people tend to think they can modify OpenSolaris source code and apply it to Solaris 10. But it is not so easy as they think, because it's a kind of back porting. So I've explained Solaris 10 is not OpenSolaris based distribution. > + SchilliX > + BeliniX > + Nebuntu I also noticed that Belenix and Nexenta are correct ones. regards, T. Higuchi From Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com Mon Dec 19 19:04:30 2005 From: Alan.DuBoff at Sun.Com (Alan DuBoff) Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:04:30 -0800 Subject: [ug-discuss] SVOSUG Pot Luck Clarification Message-ID: <200512191904.30550.Alan.DuBoff@Sun.Com> Just so some of you that have been asking would know. 1) you do not have to bring anything for the pot luck, just bring yourself and be a part of the community. 2) if you would like to bring something for the community pot luck, please feel free to do so, and by all means everyone is welcome to enjoy whatever is brought. 3) If you can get the recipe to us after, maybe we can put together an online recipe book. If you can't bring a recipe, or bring something you didn't bake, you're more than welcome to join us. 4) I don't want anyone to feel as if they wouldn't come to this meeting if you don't want to participate in the pot-luck, as I have said everyone is more than welcome. Hope to see you folks tomorrow night, I'll send out a reminder tomorrow morning. Please join us if you participate in the pot-luck or not. The BrandZ team will be there to give you a presentation as well. What: BrandZ (run applications in containers and more!;-) Where: Sun Santa Clara campus auditorium (upstairs) When: Tuesday, Dec 20th Time: 7:30pm - 10:00pm Map: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/aland/scasj_dirmap.pdf No RSVP required, just show up! Everyone is welcome! -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering