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An OpenWeekend conference was held in Prague in the weekend of October 15 and 16, 2005. This conference is organized by students from Czech Technical University Prague, Department of Computer Science. The main focus of this annual event is on Open Source products and development. This year was quite interesting from Solaris' point of view because Saturday afternoon was devoted to OpenSolaris and also to the first meeting of Czech OpenSolaris Users Group (CZOSUG).

Chris Armes (Director, EMEA Revenue Product Engineering) gave Sun's sponsorship presentation during which we started to give away OpenSolaris T-shirts. After Chris' presentation Solaris engineers from Sun engineering center in Czech Republic started a panel discussion session about OpenSolaris (and more T-shirts were given away ;-) ). You can take a look at slides for the panels. A demo we prepared for the panel discussion had the following setup (which brought quite a lot of attention):

• My Ferrari laptop with SunRay Server installed on it
• Three SunRays configured for triple-head session (xinerama)
• Internet connection provided via CDMA USB modem (quite popular in Czech) using a Solaris CDMA driver developed by Vita Batrla and Petr Sumbera from the OP/N1 Revenue Product Engineering team in Czech

Preparations for the OpenWeekend required quite a lot of effort and many people were involved -- it was true team effort for us. Big thanks to all who helped with organizing the event, helped to prepare the presentation, demo, and took part in the panel discussion and in the CZOSUG meeting.

Here are some pictures:

The first visit of lecture hall K1 at Czech Technical University Prague to decide where and how to hold the panel discussion.


Setting up the SunRay server the CDMA modem.


The demo is running in our office and then disassembled and ready for transport.


Preparation for the panel discussion.

And here are some picture from the actual event:

More pictures can be found at Petr's weblog.