Wednesday July 27, 2005

OpenSolaris Goings-On at OSCON next week

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My midsummer night dream is about OSCON.  In which OSCON = the O'Reilly Open Source Convention.  In Portland, Oregon.  Next week.  August 1-5, 2005.  O'Reilly conferences do not disappoint.  And since things OpenSolaris and Open Source are near and dear to my heart, well, I'm awaiting the gathering with bated breath.

For those of you who will be in Portland, please join us for food and drink and lively discussion at the Birds-of-a-Feather session about OpenSolaris on Wednesday night Aug 3rd.  Last year's BOF was super memorable - standing room only starting at 9pm and running until almost midnight!  It was great fun, and I look forward to an even richer discussion this year - because it's no longer just about our intentions but about the reality that is the OpenSolaris project.  Liane Praza is hosting the BOF and she'll by joined by other members of the OpenSolaris community as well.  Who knows what colour Liane's hair will be - but I guarantee it will be colourful.

OpenSolaris Technologies BOF  Wed Aug 3rd at 8:30pm PT

For those attending the conference - there will be 2 sessions to choose from on OpenSolaris DTrace - although I fully expect some developers to attend both.  DTrace slices and dices and whirls and twirls.   Well, almost.  At JavaOne last month, 900 people came to hear Adam talk about it and demo it- particularly since it's useful for analyzing applications and Java code and not just operating system software.  The first is a 3-and-a-half hour session on Tuesday with both Bryan Cantrill and Keith Wesolowski (called a tutorial, but you do not have to register for it or pay anything extra for it - a conference pass is all that is needed, it seems) and the other is a 45 minute Opening the Kimono session with Bryan on Thursday.

Tutorial:  "OpenSolaris Development with Dynamic Tracing (DTRACE)
Bryan Cantrill and Keith Wesolowski
Tue Aug 2nd 1:30-5:00, Room D140

Open Session: "DTrace: Opening the Kimono"
Bryan Cantrill
Thu Aug 4th 4:30-5:15  Portland Room 255

And - for those of you are wondering what in the blue moon this OpenSolaris gig is about - well, Keith will be answering that very question in a What-is-OpenSolaris session.  Come and join us.

Open Session: "What is OpenSolaris"
Keith Wesolowski
Wed Aug 3rd 2:35-3:20  Portland Room 255

And if you like to listen to agile minds converse, the one and only Jonathan Schwartz will be live and on stage to talk to the O'Reilly conference chair Nat Torkington (a great guy) about - well, whatever the two of them end up talking about.  If you've been to an O'Reilly conference before, you know these things are generally not scripted.  They'll be talking.  About something interesting. 

Jonathan Schwartz Fireside Chat
Wed Aug 3rd 9:45-10:15 , Portland Ball Room

And I'll be on a panel discussed titled Women in Open Source on Fri morning Aug 5th, too.

And there will be BOFs about other Sun open source projects as well - a JXTA BOF (Wed at 7:30pm), a Java.net BOF (Wed at 7:30pm) and a GlassFish BOF (Wed at 8:30pm).  If you've not heard of GlassFish yet - they're one of the newest Sun open source projects to join the party - and yes, they do have a thing or to do with the application server.  Find out more about Project GlassFish here.

Oh - and if you're interested in tools and NetBeans, Tim Boudreau is giving a 3.5 hour NetBeans Tutorial titled NetBeans IDE 4.1 Development on Tuesday morning Aug 2nd at 8:30am.

See you there, I hope!  And please check out our somewhat unusual booth as well!

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