Observations Deck of Sun China University Programs Joey Guo's Blog

On the afternoon of Sep. 22, totally 137 developers joined us at the
OpenSolaris Day in Shanghai. Kathy Jenks kicked off the event, then Erik
Nordmark, Richard McDougal, Kathy, Yukun Zhang, Fir Qin delivered
technical sessions, concluded with James Hughes' OpenSolaris BOF. 

To avoid language problems we are projecting both the English and
Chinese slides to the audience, one on the front left side and the other
on the front right side for the English speakers' sessions. The audience
were very active in interacting with the speaker, and most of them asked
questions in English. So we assumed that at least a large number of them
understood the sessions that were given by English speaking speakers.
Notably Richard McDougal's books are so popular that many audience
raised their hands to ask good questions in order to win the books
signed by Richard himself.

All attendees received a copy of the localized OpenSolaris Starter Kit
DVD and OpenSolaris User Group leaflet for returning the surveys.

This is really a successful event. The audience feedbacks are much
better than our expectation. The only commend is the total length of the
event was 5 hours, which is a little bit too long. The event started at
1:30PM. At 6:00PM a small number of people were already hungry and went
for dinner.

Thanks a lot for Teresa Giacomini, Julie Welch, Liana Vagharshakian,
Chiu Wen and all the people who work so hard to make this happen. Also,
special thanks to Yukun Zhang, Fir Qin, Dolpher Du, Wang Yang and other
people who localized and delivered the presentations in Chinese, which
makes the audience's life easier to understand and learn OpenSolaris.

Let's look forward to the Beijing OpenSolaris Day for more OpenSolaris
enthusiasts in China.

Some pictures of the sessions:


Yukun Zhang: OpenSolaris Build and Installation