Jim Walker: Sun Software Engineer

Here's some pictures from last nights FROSUG meeting. We celebrated the 2-year Anniversary of OpenSolaris by having some cake before the meeting presentation. It was gooood cake...


After the festivities, Bonnie Corwin, the OpenSolaris Engineering Manager, presented "OpenSolaris: Still in a Storm". Who's title is borrowed from Jim Grisanzio's "OpenSolaris: in a Storm" presentation, which discussed how fast Sun and the OpenSolaris Engineering team moved to make OpenSolaris a reality. Bonnie indicated that her team is still moving fast. The presentation covered what the OpenSolaris Engineering Team does, gave an OpenSolaris Anniversary update (OpenSolaris at Two) and talked about where OpenSolaris is going in the future. The presentation slides along with a recording is posted at frosug.org. This was another great FROSUG presenation.

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.