It has been a tradition of the IEEE-CS students club to sponsor a spring picnic every year. The picnic offers a chance for engineering students and faculties to eat, hang out, talk and enjoy some entertainments. The IEEE-CS has in the past been funded by the Computer Science department and some other companies. This year, we received $500 from Sun, $200 from the Computer Science department and $150 from selling books donated to us by Dr. Boyland.
Originally, we had hope to do many things during the picnic such as setting up an HDTV for students to play with out SunSPOT developer kit and laptops for students to register for our OSUM club but things didn't work out due to the bad weather. The temperature was in the high 30s and it was drizzling in the morning. It was too cold for students to hang around. It was too cold for our professors to play music for us.
Bonnie Clemens from Sun also came to the picnic. We really enjoyed her presence.
After the picnic, we had the OpenSolaris workshop by Mark Ramczyk, an enterprise engineer from Sun Microsystem. The talk was solaris, Dtrace, ZFS, Zones, IPS, and a few other things. We had around 20 students. Mark did a really good job with the talk. We left the room convinced OpenSolaris is the world best operating system. We hope Mark would be able to give more talk on campus.
You may join our OSUM's club to see what we are doing at UW-Milwaukee and to receive announcements of future events. The link is: http://osum.sun.com/group/universityofwisconsinmilwaukeeosum
Pictures from the picnic and the OpenSolaris Workshop:
