Jim Walker: Sun Software Engineer

The Sun Fire x2270 runs cool but is very hot!
I added one to the Broomfield, Colorado test farm site. Eric Saxe is running it through it's paces for the tickless project. Darrin Johnson sent four to me and we will be adding them for the tickless project. I love the 1TB drives and the great speed. I plan to get more for general use in the next couple months.

This month's Front Range OpenSolaris User Group meeting is on Thursday, June 28, 2007. Bonnie Corwin will give an OpenSolaris Engineering Update. In addition, we will be celebrating the 2-year OpenSolaris anniversary!

!! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits and Solaris Express Developer Edition DVDs. !!

About the presentation:
The OpenSolaris Engineering Team Update will include information on the following areas:
- New Open Code/Communities/Projects/Contributions
- New Country Portals
- New OGB Processes
- Source Code Management: moving to Mercurial
- Website: operational infrastructure and open sourcing application code
The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.

About our presenter:
Bonnie Corwin is a Senior Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris Engineering Team manager. She has worked at Sun for 15 years in various software engineering and management roles. The OpenSolaris Engineering Team investigated the feasibility of opening the Solaris source code, ran the pre-launch OpenSolaris Pilot program and executed the launch of OpenSolaris. It currently manages the OpenSolaris site infrastructure including site hosting operations and website applications and supports key community activities including the OpenSolaris governance process and elections, OpenSolaris code contributions, bug tracking, source code management, country portals, the OpenSolaris Starter Kit and conferences.

Meeting Details:

When: Thursday, June 28, 2007
Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 6:45pm OpenSolaris 2-year Anniversary Celebration
6:45pm - 8:30pm OpenSolaris Engineering Update
Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021

Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067

The meeting is free and open to the public.

Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to rsvp(AT)frosug.org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.

We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG

Future Meeting Plans:

If you have ideas for topics or have a topic you would like to present, send them to: ug-frosug(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org.

Here's a picture of the FROSUG booth (thanks Bonnie) we staffed at the Project Blackbox tours in Broomfield on April 13th. We handed out SXDE DVDs and OpenSolaris Starter Kits and informed people about OpenSolaris and the FROSUG meetings. Members of the Front Range Open Solaris User Group were at the booth throughout the day. There was a lot of interest in the Blackbox and getting Solaris on laptops and desktops. It was cool having a laptop (thanks Lisa) with SXDE installed that people could play with.


Here's a picture of the Blackbox.