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Coming soon:  GNOME.Asia Summit
         Emily is organizing the first GNOME.Asia Summit which will take place from October 18th - 19th 2008, in Beihang university, Beijing, China. This will be an exciting event with a variety of people attending. The theme of the summit is 'Go GNOME- Free Your Desktop' which refers to the primary goals of the GNOME.Asia Summit, spreading the knowledge of GNOME across Asia, and building a more vibrant, thriving community around it. You can participate too! To register to this summit, simply go to www.gnome.asia .

• Beijing 2008 Olympic Games has been successfully held from 8 August 2008 until 24 August.

• The engineers from desktop china team went to Marathon Race as voluntary cheering team in 2008 Olympic Games.

• Teambuilding
Sunflower team went to Element Buffet in the early autumn of the Olympic year. This buffet is noted for its Japanese food and seafood. Everyone enjoyed the favorite food, cocktail and icecream. In such tidy environment they drank a toast to the most beautiful season in Beijing and the
success of our team building.

 • Firefox Summit
 Alfred, Dave, Evan, Emily, Ginn and Leon attended Firefox  Summit. It was a great summit for 400 Mozillians to have a get-together in the beautiful mountain area, Whistler, Canada, Jul. 27th to Aug. 1st. They gave two sessions in this summit: Firefox & Linux/Solaris Distros and Mozilla DTrace session. The Beijing team's contribution to Mozilla is well recognized in the community.

• All hands meeting
OpenSolaris Desktop China team all hands meeting has been successfully held on 1st, Sep. It is the first ever meeting for desktop china team. Paul and Evita presided over this meeting. Harry shared project portfolio for OpenSolaris 2008.11 and Helen reviewed events for desktop china team set up for 7
years. In the meantime all enjoyed awards and celebrations.

Six years have passed since I joined Sun.  I grew from MTS-1 to Staff Engineer last year, step by step. I switched my role to Engineering Manger since late March, this year. I have got great help and support from various people and the team members. Many of them have left Sun. I'd like to thank them all here.

Here is a brief summary of what my team did for FY08. 

 1. Team integrated Accerciser into Nevada 75, RealPlayer 11 into Nevada 90, gnome-power-manager into Nevada 92, Installer's new timezone selector into OpenSolaris 2008.05, Meta tracker 0.6.6 into
Vermillion 88 (will be in Nevada 98).

2. Team Maintained projects: Integrated latest stable Evolution, GNOME A11Y Infrastructure(atk, gail, at-spi, java-access-bridge), some GNOME multimedia apps (Totem, Rhythmbox, etc), vino, palm-sync, pidgin into Nevada 92,

3. Team integrated 3 Indiana Packages for 2008.05 release: libgc, glibmm, gmime.

4. GNOME 2.22 ARC team finished the ARC process successfully. Team Lead: Jedy Wang. Members: Jerry(Jijun) Yu, Li Yuan, Irene Huang, Brian Cameron.

Thanks to our new Admin, Evita Lv's effort, we now have our OpenSolaris Desktop China Team Newsletter- No.1.

Headline: Sun calls for donation in Greater China for victims of the Sichuan earthquake

Sun公司两岸三地联动 捐款救助凝聚公民责任

http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/2008-05-22/15182211284.shtml

From http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/05/adobe_reader_on_solaris_x86_co.html

"After receiving hundreds of requests from users of Adobe Reader to
release a version on Solaris x86 platform, here's something all of you
have been waiting to hear - yes, the decision to add this
support has been taken and we're planning to add Solaris x86 to our
supported platforms list in the next release of Adobe Reader which
might happen in 2009."

On Thursday morning 10-12 am in Menlo Park 11, Crossroads CR, we attended the Solaris All hands hosted by Jeff Jackson, our VP solaris. At first, Jeff gave the 20-anniversary gift to Bob Gianni, our director. Then Jeff named the Q2FY08's Solaris Achievement Awards.

After that, several VPs/Senior Directors talked about their department's achievement and plan for the next phase. Each one was given 7 minutes and it was alarmed by a counting clock. Some of the slides are quite interesting.

Tim Marsland, Sun Fellow/VP, co-CTO software took about 40 minutes to talk on "The Architecture of Sun's OpenSolaris distribution". He talked some big changes happening to Solaris and some vague items that need to be clarified in the future.

In the afternoon, Alfred and I visited Bob G and Bob B in their office. We talked about the RealPlayer's plugins for Sun Ray and Firefox 3's performance issue in Sparc machines. We also invited Bob G to come to China to join our GNOME Asia Summit.

On Wednesday morning, May, 7, Alfred and I went to Sun's office at Melon Park to meet with John Fischer. John had reserved a conference room at MPK 17 and he was already there when we arrived at 9:30. John told us he lived in the north and about 3.5 hours' drive. So he usually works at home. Dermot came to the room later and we discussed John's ARC checklist for FOSS. I also introduced Desktop Team in china to them. We have lunch together and John invited Ada (our previous S10 RE) and Jeremy (X sustaining) to join us. It was very nice to meet them in person.

In the afternoon, we went to Mozilla's office at Mountain View. Johnny Stenback (:jst) accompanied us to meet several people. We talked about Thunderbird, Firefox summit and GNOME Asia Summit with different people. Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering at Mozilla, invited us to dinner with them in a Argentina restaurant named Pampas in Palo Alto. It just like those Brazil Grill restaurant in China. It is nice to meet with Brendan Eich, Mozilla CTO and father of JavaScript there. Alfred tole me Brendan is like a "God" in Mozilla developer's eyes.

As CommunityOne attendees, we got a free pass to attend the JavaOne's general session on Tuesday. It started at 8:30, so we arrived there a little late. It was amazing to see the big hall was crowded by people. It was said more than 15,000 people attending this time. The general session was hosted by Rich Green and the theme is "Java + You".

Several partners joined the session to demo the power of Java. We saw the Kindle(http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA) from Ian Freed, Vice President of Amazon. After next guest: Rikko Sakaguchi, senior vice president at Sony Ericsson, we were showed the power of JavaFx. Within Java 6 update 10, we saw an applet was dragged out the browser and running as a standalone desktop application.

Rich Green also gave us some statics. Java is in 85% of all phones, 91% of all PC/Laptops and 100% of next-gen video devices (You know Blue-ray has won the battle and java is inside it).

Rich also mentioned that as of May 2008, the Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 distributions were released with OpenJDK, based completely on free and open source code.

At last, Jonathan Schwartz came to the stage and introduced the rock star Neil Young who collected all his work in several Blue-ray disks. It is a pity that he didn't sing on the stage.

CommunityOne(http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/) was held on Monday, May, 5, 2008. As we were told it is quite expensive to park in San Francisco. Dermot and us decided to take the CalTrain(http://www.caltrain.com/) from Palo Alto to SFO. As we didn't know how long it would take to go to the Palo Alto station, we let the clock alarm to wake up at 6:30. After breakfast, we drive to Stanford Shopping Center which is near the station and park our car there. It takes only 5 mins to go to the station. The round trip costs $11.5.

We arrived at SF station around 8:50am. After the registration, we went to the general session which started at 9:30 by Ian Murdock. Jonathan Schwarz also showed up in the meeting and gave a brief talk. You can also see the recorded video of the session online from the CommunityOne page. Our EVP, Rich Green also announced the launch of OpenSolaris 2008.05. Stephan Han demoed the installation part and it is great to see Jedy's timezone selection GUI. Then D-Traced was demoed together with JavaScript in Firefox 3. After that, Michal's IPS GUI was demoed to install a package online. James Hughes demoed the power of ZFS by destroy some hard disks in a running system with a hamer and an electric drill.

Then the technical sessions (http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/agenda.jsp) started. I went to "Getting Started with OpenSolaris; New Features & Building OpenSolaris Packages" by Stephan Han and David Comay. Next is "Develop, Consolidate, and Manage Virtual Environments Entirely in Open Source". It is about Virtual Box (http://www.virtualbox.org/). It is quite cool and just announced 1.6.0. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

I also went to some other sessions about Ajax, OpenSolaris storage, etc. I was not feeling well so went back hotel after the sessions. Alfred joined other people on two parties after the meeting. He was so "high" and stayed late only to catch the last CalTrain over mid-night.

 Sunday's session began with the "Special Advocacy Panel".  Followed were separate sessions. I attended the "Defect Tracking" talking about why we choose bugzilla as the bug tracking tool in OpenSolaris.

After lunch, we attended the "Desktop Technologies" session hosted by Erwann and Darren. They gave an overview of our desktop team's strategy which was based on Robert's last year's "Desktop Next" slides. Then the "OpenSolaris Testing and Performance Tools" by Jim Walker. John Plocher hosted the "ARC process" and then OSS session by Dev.

At last, the Summit was finished successfully. We took the bus back to Hotel then drove to our next hotel Crown Plaza at Palo Alto.