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[SVOSUG] Darryl Gove - Solaris Application Programming, Thur 05/22

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Tonight is the meeting, feel free to stop by for a drink and conversation. 

[SVOSUG] Darryl Gove - Solaris Application Programming, Thur 05/22

Darryl Gove, author of the recent Prentice Hall publication, "Solaris Application Programming", will be joining us for this month's meeting. This is an excellent book for OpenSolaris developers at large.

This month we're planning to change the format, in interest of a community meeting where members of the community can be more interactive with each other.

The typical format for a user group is to have a 1-2 hour presentation, with questions...and rather than focusing on a large presentation, I'd
like to try and have several small presentation, including the members of the community who have helpful or interesting things they're doing on OpenSolaris. I've thought of having several laptops that users could wander around to and watch a short presentation, but not sure we can have that setup this month or not.

We will continue meeting in the Mansion, and will try to use the space inside to suite our needs, please join us in this special space and enjoy the company of your fellow OpenSolaris and other open source community members as well.

I spoke at the BayLISA meeting last week, and will be speaking at SVLUG on June 4th, and EBLUG on June 18th. I'm inviting other communities to join us, and would like to hear from some of them if they would like to give the community a perspective on the system(s) they use, what they use them for, and/or if they have interest in OpenSolaris.

Please feel free to join us, for a drink, a snack, some good open source talk, and a chance to talk to some of the OpenSolaris engineers. Feel free to bring your own bottle, a snack, or something to share if inclined, no entry required so feel free to join us without concern of bringing something.

 When: Thursday, May 22, 2008
Where: Sun's Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (SCA07, the Mansion)
 What: Darryl Gove - Solaris Application Programming
 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm

Google Maps Link

SVOSUG Project Page, for video:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/svosug/

If you haven't been to the Mansion before, as you enter the Sun campus on Palm, from Lafayette, the Mansion is the first building on the left, as I recall. There is parking all around, a small lot in the rear, parking on Palm, and a huge lot on the other side of the Auditorium.

Community offer to John Loiacono at Adobe!

I was encouraged to read about future support for Solaris x86 with AcroRead posted at the Adobe Site.

I posted a comment to Adobe, and would like to post it here, as I am offering to wash John Loiacono's car when Adobe finally releases Adobe for Solaris on x86 platforms. Any other OpenSolaris community members that would like to join in on this festivity would be more than welcome to do so. The Adobe offices are in downtown San Jose.

I hope Adobe will update the SPARC version also, and although old, this is much newer than the 4.0.5 version most users on Solaris x86 is been crippled with for years, actually it could be more than a decade old...the SPARC version is only 3 or 4 years old I think.

We would need to make some stipulations for such an offer though, such as:

1) Both x86 and SPARC versions of AcroRead will receive a full wash, including windows and interior.

2) wash only the outside of the car, no windows or interior if SPARC version is not updated at same time.

3) Additional spiff for Thanksgiving 2008 delivery, a full tank of gas.

4) Additional spiff for July 4th 2008 delivery, in addition to a full tank of gas, you will also receive a lube job, it just don't get much better than that, Johnny!

I am very encouraged to see this on the Adobe page, very encouraged indeed.

Bay Area OpenSolaris Presentations

I will be speaking around the Bay Area, the first of which is be BayLISA tomorrow, Thurs. May 15th, at Yahoo in Sunnyvale.

 I will be handing out some OpenSolaris usb sticks which have the OpenSolaris image on it, so you can install from it. These are really handy, and a nice piece of swag. Jesse Silvers did a great job at getting these made up, a very nice design. Also joining me will be John Weeks to give some backing on the FMAC project. Don't miss these events, should be a good time for all.

 BayLISA - Thursday, May 15th at Yahoo in Sunnyvale

Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG) - Wednesday, June 4th at Symantec/Veritas in Mountain View

East Bay Linux Users Group (EBLUG) - Wednesday, June 18th at Hurricane Electric in Fremont

Hope to see you folks there! Especially look forward to seeing some of my friends in the Linux communities.