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Communities in the rain

I attended the first opensolaris users group meeting in New York City last night. They say that rain at a wedding is good luck, so the downpours in New York should be a very sign for the success of the new user group. Sun's office is on the east side of Manhattan where there were power outages and subways out of service. Despite the difficulties with transportation, there was a good group that showed up for the first meeting (and free pizza, of course).

There were some good presentations on opensolaris in general and Crossbow. Isaac took us on a field trip of the opensolaris and genunix websites. The audience was engaged and agreed to meet monthly to continue the conversation. The group was a good mix of Solaris users, developers and Sun employees. If the rain was any indication, this should grow into a very strong group.

Posted at 02:13PM Jun 28, 2007 by bs in General  |