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Brazil OpenSolaris Community...

Monday Nov 13, 2006

I was on #opensolaris-i18n IRC channel the other day chatting with Pablo from Brazilian Portuguese i18n community. We talked about this and that, and the community... He mentioned that there are about 500 members in the Brazilian community, not in the OS.o i18n community, but in Orkut.com, an online community for which a lot of stuff is hosted by Google. He also mentioned that there are books/articles written about Solaris technologies in this community, for example, a document about ZFS!

I registered myself on Orkut to check out what it's about. I had never heard of this before Pablo mentioned it. In fact, there are nearly 3000 Solaris community members (possibly way more) there.

Maybe that somewhat explains the high number of viewers of all our emails in the OS.o discussions lists, though you may find only a few who actually participate in the actual discussions.

At any rate, that's pretty cool, that Solaris community(ies) are being formed by enthusiasts even outside of OS.o.

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Posted at 03:27PM Nov 13, 2006 by Young Joo Pintaske in Sun
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It must be a Brazil thing because the NetBeans Brazilian community also told me about orkut. I haven't subscribed though.

Posted by Janicec on November 17, 2006 at 03:24 PM PST #

I registered there and found that there are multiple Solaris related communities. I think I saw some NetBeans communities there as well, like you said. It's definitely interesting.