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I found this article today:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/FreeSoftwareOnResumes:Writing

Finally :) Go and check out http://www.opensolaris.com/index.html

We Solaris Desktop team integrated GNOME 2.24 into it. We also provided a lot of FOSS packages so that you don't need to build by yourself, such as XSane, Brasero, Bluefish, Songbird, Cheese and Meta Tracker .

The IPS Software Package Manager GUI is improved. NWAM (network automatic) is working better than last release. The new ZFS based time slider will save you a lot of trouble. The overall UI is also looking better.

GNOME.Asia Summit 2008

The first ever GNOME.Asia Summit was held at the Beihang university, Beijing, China, Oct 18th-19th, 2008. Totally about 350 participants attended this Summit. There were 42 speakers, 70% are local speakers and 30% oversea speakers from USA, Finland, Singapore and HK. Sun was gold sponsor as well as co-organizer for this event. Lots of topics were discussed in this Summit: Accessibility, Mobile, i18n, Community, Development, Testing and Deployment. Sun is acting as a leader to build the GNOME community in Asia. The Summit is a good beginning.  After the Summit, we are going to build Beijing GNOME User Group
to have a better GNOME community in China and Asia.

Visitors

Robert O'Dea, Brian Cameron and Willie Walker visited Sun JDS Beijing office in October. They were here for the GNOME.Asia
Summit as well as for better communication with local engineers in Beijing. Lots of discussion, meetings and forums were held this
month. Welcome to Beijing.

All hands meeting

Robert O’Dea hosted an all hands meeting of OpenSolaris Desktop China team on Oct. 22nd. He reviewed the team achievement in the past year and shared the perspective for the coming year. He thought the team was getting mature and believed it would be better in future.

Teambuilding

JDS team went to Fenghuangling Nature Park in the late autumn of the Beijing for team building. The Fenghuangling Nature Park embraced by forests is located in the northwest of Haidian district.  All of us were impressed by the beautiful view, fresh air and less people  (comparing with Fragrant Hills). Finally, everyone enjoyed a mutton hotpot lunch. We had another successful team building this year.

ERI 7th anniversary

As you know, we have donated our event budget to Si Chuan Earthquake, which is meaningful to all of us. Given this, we still would like
to create an opportunity to gather people together to a simple but memorial anniversary celebration. Group picture was the expected
part. We took group picture around 4:00 pm on Oct. 20th at the square in front of the Sunny Hall, Tsinghua  Science Park.

Today's summit also runs quite well.  In the morning, we heard the talk by Robert on "Open Source and Sun".

In the afternoon, I listened Jedy's "Introduction to GNOME". Though I have been quite familiar with GNOME, Jedy's talk still gave me some new knowledge. Then I listened to the talk on Meta Tracker given by Richard Sun from Nokia. Several people seems quite familiar with Tracker already. The last technical session I attend was given by FunDa Wang on GNOME's l10n projects. It is still hard to find someone in China who could work on the translations for a long time.

At last, in the close session, Emily introduced several people who helped the summit a lot but cannot attend it because of different reasons.

Considering this is the first GNOME event in China, I would say overall this is very successful.

Today is the day 1 of GNOME Asia Summit held in Beijing, China, http://gnome.asia/en/

Thanks to Emily and other people's great efforts, I would say it is much better than I expected.

It is great to face to face to meet Stomy Peters, the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, and Willie Walker, the ORCA lead from Sun.

Here is the schedule, http://gnome.asia/en/schedule/. Hope tomorrow will be more successful.

The ORCA project lead, Willie Walker (http://blogs.sun.com/wwalker), recently created several demo videos for GNOME Accessibility.

So if you are interested in some of the a11y features in GNOME, please go to http://master.gnome.org/~wwalker/demos/  and have a look. They are quite short and useful.

Thanks to http://allisterx.blogspot.com/2008/05/additions-and-ssh-access-to-virtualbox.html and http://mydebian.blogdns.org/?p=148  , I can use ssh to access my VirtualBox guest now.

 The steps are actually quite simple.  Run the following 3 commands in your host terminal: (Replace MyLinux with your guest name. If there are spaces in the name, just use " to enclose whole name)

VBoxManage setextradata MyLinux "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/HostPort" 2222

VBoxManage setextradata MyLinux "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/GuestPort" 22

VBoxManage setextradata MyLinux "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/Protocol" TCP

Then use 
VBoxManage getextradata MyLinux enumerate
to verify. At last, remember to shutdown the guest OS, restart VirtualBox, then run the guest OS.
Now you can use $ssh username@hostname -p 2222 to access the guest :) 

VirtualBox  2.0 was released last week. http://www.virtualbox.org/

I have been using it since this May. I installed it in my Solaris Nevada and added two guest OS, one for OpenSolaris 2008.11, one for Ubuntu. The machine is Ultra 40 and has 4G memory. So I give each of the guest OS 1G memory.  It has been working smoothly for both. A little pity is that the OpenSolaris 2008.11's audio doesn't work, but the Ubuntu one works.  When I don't use them, I usually pause them and hope it could save some CPU time for me. Another problem is that when resumed, the OpenSolaris' time cannot sync to current time while the Ubuntu could. Given Sun aquired them not a long time, guess we should give them sometime to fix those problem.

The first ever GNOME.Asia Summit is coming! Check http://gnome.asia

"It will be held over two days at BeiHang University in Beijing, China, from 18th to 19th of October, 2008. GNOME Foundation is organizing GNOME.Asia Summit in collaboration with Sun Microsystems, Beijing Linux User Group (BLUG) and China OSS Promotion Union (COPU).

Approximately 300 people are expected to attend. During the two day summit there will be a variety of presentations, talks and workshops focusing on  growing the Asia GNOME community and showcasing GNOME platform technologies. There will also be demonstrations of upcoming projects and  brainstorming discussions of challenges different facets of GNOME in Asia.

The GNOME.Asia Summit will be focus primarily on the GNOME desktop, applications, development platform, and the larger GNOME-related community in Asia. It will bring together the GNOME-related community all over Asia providing a forum for GNOME users, developers, foundation leaders, individuals, governments and businesses to discuss a range of topics relating to GNOME and the GNOME community in Asia."

I found this today.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

"Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.

This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix."

The a11y community now have a planet:　http://www.planet-a11y.net/

I came accross this article on Google's new browser - Chrome's accessibility status:

http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=92

The concolution is not a surprise, "This release of Google Chrome does not appear to have been developed
with the needs of users with disabilites taken into account, apart from
limited keyboard shortcuts, basic support required for accessibility is
absent." The a11y work is never a easy job.

I was told that the mozilla.com had a good relation with Google and a large portion of its revenue was from its Google search bar. Now Google has its own browser, I don't know what will be changed.