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After co-operating with China Operating System Associations to accomplish the Sun 2007 OpenSolaris Course Training in Yantai, we collaborated with the ACM/ICPC Council China to hold the 2007 Summer Forum for Team Training in Asia/China in JiLin University. In this forum, we provided Solaris/OpenSolaris Training to 96 ACM coaches throughout China, most of them are professors of programming or algorithms.

On August 5, the 2007 Summer Forum for Team Training in Asia/China kicked off in Changchun city, JiLin province. In the 3-day forum, 96 ACM coaches shared their experience in the programming contests. As the major sponsor, Sun China ERI announced the collaboration with ACM/ICPC Council, including providing the platform sponsor for the 2007 final contests and offering the training on Solaris development environment to the coaches. All coaches attended the following Solaris/OpenSolaris Training. Every attendee was presented with the "Solaris Complete Reference" book and the OpenSolaris Starter Kits and Solaris Developer Tools DVDs.

The agenda and outline of the training are as below.

August 5, Morning:
   Opening Ceremony
   Collective Photo
   ACM/ICPC Council China, Prof. Zhou Weimin, Shanghai University
August 5, Afternoon:
   ACM Experience Exchange, Prof. Wu Wenhu, Peking University, etc.
August 6, Morning:
   Sun Technology Outreach Programs in Universities, John Jiang from ERI
August 6, Afternoon:
   Solaris 10/OpenSolaris New Features, Alex Peng from ERI
   Solaris Programming Environment, Prof. Liu Yu, Capital Normal University
August 7, Morning:
   Solaris System Programming, Prof. Liu Yu, Capital Normal University
August 7, Afternoon:
   Linux Migration to Solaris, Alex Peng from ERI
   OpenSolaris Build and Install, Alex Peng from ERI

On August 6 morning, John Jiang introduced Sun Technology Outreach Programs in Universities covering the Solaris Teaching Assistance and Campus Ambassadors Programs which interested the coaches. All the Solaris/OpenSolaris training were delivered in the Lab installed with Solaris. It's notable that we did a survey of integrating Solaris development environment into the programming curricula. After the screening of the survey results, some professors are willing to integrate Solaris and join the OpenSolaris Teaching Assistance program.

Alex Peng was introducing Solaris/OpenSolaris new features.

 Prof. Liu Yu was delivering the Solaris System Programming training.

 The Lab installed with Solaris.

Based on the successful collaboration of delivering ACM/ICPC Contest on Solaris in Xi'An regional contest last year, we negotiated with the ACM/ICPC Council China and came to agreement to be the platform sponsor for 3 Asia regional ACM/ICPC contests during this October to November in China. That means, all these contests will conduct on Solaris development environment. We are invited to integrate the Sun technologies like Solaris, Sun Studio, Netbeans, etc. to the contests. The estimated participants for the final contests will be at least 300 teams, or 900 contestants. There will be much more participants in the selection contests for the candidates of final contests. All of them are top coders from various universities throughout China.

As Prof. Hwang, the ACM/ICPC Aisa director, stated, Solaris are popular in American Universities. It is a good chance for Solaris to bind with ACM/ICPC, the top academic programming contest in the world, which are more and more popular in China now. This promotion will surely help Solaris to get as popular in China universities as it does in US in the not long future.

Let's look forward to the ACM/ICPC contests on Solaris in China. (With Belenix Demo)

 

The 9th National OS Teaching Workshop and Academic Exchange Conference kicked off on July 28 in Yantai city, Shandong province. It attracted 110 OS professors from universities throughout China. In the 3-day conference, a dozen of professors shared their experience in OS curriculum development, student incubation and principle construction.

On the morning of July 29, Prof. Sun from Capital Normal University presented the experience of integrating OpenSolaris into OS course and constructing the Solaris Lab environment.




The single sponsor, Microsoft Research Asia has announced their share source project, Windows Research Kernel.


Immediately after the OS Teachers Conference, Sun China Engineering and Research Institute held the OpenSolaris Course Training in Yantai. 102 OS professors attended the 3-day training on OpenSolaris theory and labs.


The agenda and outline of the training are as below.

July 30, afternoon:
    Reception, Joey Guo

July 31, morning:
    opening Ceremony, Prestigious professors, Host by Joey Guo
    Collective Photo
    Solaris Process Management, Prof. Xiang Yong, Tsinghua University
    Solaris IPC, Prof. Sun Weizhen, Capital Normal University
July 31, afternoon:
    Solaris Process Management Labs, Prof. Chen Xiangqun, Peking University; Prof. Sun Weizhen and Prof. Liu Yu, Capital Normal University; Alex Peng from ERI.
July 31, evening:
    Solaris Teaching Assistance, Joey Guo

August 1, morning:
    Solaris Memory Management, Prof. Xiang Yong, Tsinghua University
    Solaris IPC, Prof. Sun Weizhen, Capital Normal University
August 1, afternoon:
    Solaris Memory Management Labs, Prof. Chen Xiangqun, Peking University; Prof. Sun Weizhen and Prof. Liu Yu, Capital Normal University; Alex Peng from ERI.
August 1, evening:
    Outing
 
August 1, morning:
    Solaris Memory Management Labs, Prof. Chen Xiangqun, Peking University; Prof. Sun Weizhen and Prof. Liu Yu, Capital Normal University; Alex Peng from ERI.
    Solaris Paper Examination
    Solaris Labs Examination
August 1, afternoon:
    Clean up and check-out

During the opening ceremony on the morning July 31, we invited distinguished guests including Prof. Shi Meilin, Xiang Yong from Tsinghua University, Prof. Chen Xiangqun from Peking University, Prof. Sun Weizhen from Capital Normal University, Prof. Ren Manjie, Vice Dean of Yantai University and Ms. Wen Lifen, Chief Editor of Electronic Industry Publisher to share their experience in teaching or promoting OpenSolaris.


That afternoon, professors were divided into two classes based on the familiarity level of OpenSolaris. One group is instructed by Prof. Chen and Prof. Liu.




The other is supervised by Prof. Sun and Alex Peng.




At the evening of July 31, over 60 professors attended the panel discussion of integrating OpenSolaris into OS Course. I gave a half hour presentation on the Solaris Teaching Assistance program.


In the following two hours, professors exchanged ideas and input comments. Lots of questions and ideas arouse during this panel discussion.

On the morning of August 2, professors has sit for the paper and lab examinations. We are planning to review the examinations and report the scores. For those who passed the examinations, we will offer them the training completion certificate.

It's the first time for us to organize such a large scale of course training. Thanks everyone who makes this happen.