[ug-glug] GLUG III, recap

[Young, Darren]

NP, anything I can do to help. If I might add some constructive
criticism though.. The agenda and topic being covered should be
announced much much earlier. I'd also add that any voting necessary
(such as on topics, etc) be done before the meetings and not there as to
save precious time. If there's a timeline of what's going on perhaps
people will come for one part and not another, but at least they're
attending. I'd hate to have it look like a doctor's appointment, but...

I'd also say *officially* make it from 7-10 and have small scheduled
5-10 min breaks between sessions. I felt bad walking out here and there
but drinking 2-3 liters of water a day takes it toll. ;-)

What about "non Sun" items, say, installing/running/tuning a Postgres or
MySQL database on Solaris? Or even SAMP (Solaris/Apache/MySQL/Perl)? And
even how to do that inside a zone would be nice. I personally dish out
MySQL databases for faculty to use for research and would love to start
giving them their own zones loaded with the necessary packages.

On the Open Solaris front my single largest interests are ZFS and
branded zoning. Those are technologies that will have a big impact for
us here.

Anyways, that's my free .02 worth.

Russell: I've been working on an SMF manifest for cfengine, mind looking
it over for me?

> 
> We had another good meeting last night of the OpenSolaris Great Lakes 
> User Group. This one took place, thanks to Darren Young, at The 
> University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.
> 
> The speakers, again, were excellent. Russell Rezaian of 
> Motorola -- who 
> will be leading us on a guided, and hands-on tour of SMF and FMA over 
> the next several sessions -- gave a great, compact, (read, teaser) 
> introduction to SMF, which was followed by Sun engineer, Jim Fiori's 
> equally engaging DTrace deep-dive.
> 
> I also wrote a (longer) blog entry about it:
> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eric_boutilier?entry=glug_iii
> _recap_chicago_user
> 
> Eric