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Beijing Trip report

April 16th

I reached Beijing on April 15th evening.

My first interaction/meeting with Jason Tong in the morning 10AM. We discussed lot about university engagements, opensolaris adoption and collaborations with Indian universities and the Professors.

I had to rush for a meeting with my SEED Mentor Mike Hayden at 11:15AM. I discussed with Mike about CA activities in India and also about university engagements. Later we had lengthy discussions about collobarations and the challenges. We went out for a lunch.

In the afternoon I had a extended meeting with Jason and later met Joey and spoke about

* Opensolaris adoption

* Faculty training

* CA activities

* Best practices which we have adopted in India

* Sharing the experiences and the challenges in university scenario both in China and India

In the evening, Joey organized an event, so I had to rush towards Peking University. Tracy and Lisa CA from Beijing took me to Peking university.

The session strated at 7PM. I started my talk on

* showing sun videos

* Sun Academic initiative

* Open Source and licensing

* Opensolaris and its features

* Hands on lab(SMF and zones)

The session went upto 9:00PM, the details about the event, please refer to
my blog http://blogs.sun.com/ganesh/entry/visit_to_peking_university_beijing

April 18th to 19^th

China ERC(Education and Research Conference). CERC started with Scott's keynote, he spoke about Curriki(curriculum development webpage which is open sourced)

Kim Jones spoke about education 3.0 and lots of insight about education and research.

Raju Buddharaju from Singapore digital library spoke about library system.

In the side lines of the conference, I met Dinesh Bahl and discussed about CA activities in India and also the best practices which we have implemented.

Also spoke about how we can scale this program in India. Dinesh gave lot of ideas about this program.

Also met other dignitaries, Chinese professors and other CAs from Beijing.

In the evening I came back to ERI and had an opportunity to attend Scott's townhall meeting.

On 19th, David Yen spoke about storage systems. Mark Hamilton spoke about systems practice solutions. Later Sin Yaw, site lead Beijing addressed the student panel.

I happened to attend Edu Summit at ERI in the afternoon, lot of dignitaries were attended. All the stakeholders of university programs in China did participate in the meeting. Jason Tong presented to the group about FY07 highlights and plan for FY08. Shrenik Mehta spoke about opensparc initiatives.

After that we had a lengthy discussion with Shrenik about how we can evangelise opensparc in china and India.

Later we had a meeting with Kim Jones along with CAs from Beijing. We discussed about CA activities. Cindy mentioned to Dinesh about issues/high lights which we can think for FY08.

After that meeting we went out for dinner.

20th April

Joey took me to Tsinghua University to take an interview to the Professor Xiang Yong who is OS Professor.

We discussed about

* involvement of opensolaris source code analysis project

* solaris textbook writing

* OS teaching situation in China

* opensolaris advantages in teaching operating system courses

* the collaboration with sun to drive the opensolaris adoption in chinese universities

* university situation and the teaching of operating system in India

* the possible approaches to collaborate with Indian professors on opensolaris project such as

- writing textbooks

- training

- conferences

- colloborative research

* about initiatives taken towards university engagements from Sun

The discussion went about an hour and shared lot of useful information. Its always nice to interact with Professors.

After I had a luch on meeting with Cindy and Joey, we discussed about CA activities and later it extended in the evening. We shared lot of best practices which we follow. It was quite useful.

I had a meeting with Sin Yaw and updated about CA activities in India and also spoke about Live CD/Live USB. He is quite excited about this. We discussed about university engagements and colloborations.

Later in the evening we went to Chinese Academy of Sciences. Joey organized a Beijing OSUG. JDS team showed lot of cool demos. I spoke about

* SAI

* open source and licensning

* opensolaris and its features

* Hands on approach(SMF and zones)

It went upto 22:15hrs, students are patiently listening all the sessions. Lots of queries and lots of give aways too.

During weekend I visited forbidden city, temple of heaven and summer palace.

Beijing CAs are quite helpful and supportive. Hats off to all of them.

Overall it was a great trip to Beijing.

Posted at 10:04PM Apr 26, 2007 by G S Hiregoudar in Solaris  |  Comments[3]