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On Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 on the University of Texas campus, the Austin Sun Users Group was born.  All of the photos are compliments of Travis Campbell from AMD.  Thanks Travis!  Travis wrote about our meeting at the LOPSA blog.

 

I'm the bald guy looking down at the paper and Bob Netherton (our presenter) is on my right.  Based on the look on my face, it looks like I hadn't had enough caffeine yet. :^) We had a great time eating pizza off of paper towels (yours truly forgot to get plates), learning more about the new features in Solaris 10 11/06 and discussing logistics for the group.

 

Originally, we were going to use the ASUG acronym for the group.  However, someone pointed out that the Austin SAS Users Group already uses it so we'll have to come up with a different one.  If you have a good idea, shoot me an email at jeff.blanchard@sun.com. 

We made lots of decisions regarding the group.  Here's a summary:

• We will meet from 6-9pm on the 3rd Wednesday of every other month. Since our first meeting was in February, that puts the next one on April 18th.
• The regular meeting place will be Building 8 of the Sun Austin campus at the intersection of Parmer Lane and Riata Vista.  The address is 5300 Riata Park Court Austin, TX 78727.
• Each meeting will have the general agenda:
• 6:00-7:00pm: Food, drinks, networking
• 7:00-8:30pm: Presentation/content
• 8:30-9:00pm: Q&A,offline discussions from presentation, more networking
• Initial list of topics:
• Solaris on non-Sun HW
• Lights Out Mgmt
  
• CoolStack/SAMP - MySQL, Postgres
  
• DTrace Deep Dive
  
• Solaris Performance
  
• SMF Deep Dive
  
• Niagra
  
• Virtualization - x64 and SPARC
  
• Resource Management
• The group will eventually have a website and email alias.  For now, we'll use this blog site for public communications.
• Expenses for meetings will be picked up via sponsors.  In return, sponsors will have 10 minutes at the beginning of each meeting to educate the members on who they are.  If you are interested in being a sponsor for future meetings, send me an email.

A big thank you goes out to all attendees of our first meeting - our charter members!  We are excited about the formation of this group and we hope that it will add value to the Sun user community in Austin.

We are in the process of planning the topic for the next meeting.  As soon as the details are nailed down, I'll post them to this blog site.   That's it for now!