Addressing "anything Sun", that is: anything I come across in my role as a Systems Practice Solutions Architect. Your mileage may vary ;-) Mousebits: Bart Muijzer's Blog

It was that time again. With our previous meeting still in mind, NLOSUG organized its 8th meeting again on location. This time we were invited by SNOW Unix Specialists. SNOW recently moved to a new office in which they can accomodate at least 100 people in their conference room. NLOSUG filled half of the room with a perfect mix of attendees: 15% SNOW people, 10% SUN people and hence 75% "independent" people. A great score!

For starters I continued the traditional "What's happening with NLOSUG" series in which I concluded that NLOSUG is alive and kicking. Despite the "Oracle thing" happening! We have tentatively planned meetings for the upcoming year in Octover 2009 and January, April and June 2010.

Next presentation was of Louis Mulder who attended Community One in San Francisco as NLOSUG representative. From Louis we learned that OSUGs around the world are active and becoming more active. And that two things are key: communication (between OSUGs but more importantly to all those using OpenSolaris) and reaching students in particular. 

Then Remco Fugers of SNOW took over and shared his experiences in creating a bootable USB stick for OpenSolaris. He spent a good amount of time hacking, Google-ing trying and he got the job done! The slides in the NLOSUG meeting archive will tell you how.

Since the excitement caused by all this made us all thursty --and since we all felt the need for some serious networking-- we took a break in which the Wireless Access Point that SNOW configured for us did overtime. At the same time, connections were made, experiences shared, (internet) addresses exchanged... until we were ready to continue.

After the break, Joep Vesseur did his second and already famous "What's New in OpenSolaris" that at times was hilarious. Does anyone know why demos always fail while in front of an audience? . Luckily Joep with his great sense of humor and his tons of experience managed to turn those moments into learning experiences too .

After all this, it was time for more serious networking. We had to push the people out the door around 11:00pm.

The NLOSUG Archive will reflect this memorable evening. 

Oh, I almost forgot one major achievement of the evening: NLOSUG is now on Twitter!!

See you next time, in October!