Milos Muzik and Jiri Cervenka prepared LiveUSB BeleniX
image for OpenSolaris memory stick. These sticks were given was given away during several
OpenSolaris presentations.
FOSS in India: RPE India lead the Sun India participation at FOSS.IN 2006. This is India's premiere and most focussed FOSS(Free and Open Source Software) event. Sun had a very visible presence for the second time with a lot of media coverage. The full details of our participation, check out the blogs of Manjula Kandula and Ananth Shrinivas.
Headlines Today (a TV news channel in India)
ran a story on BeleniX a day before FOSS.in 2006! It was about Anil Gulecha, a Bangalore student
who created the LiveUSB toolkit for BeleniX. The program also interviews Moinak Ghosh, Lead Developer
of BeleniX and Nageswara Rao, Site Lead (Acting) for Sun, India Engineering Center. And
Jonthan Schwartz mentions about Anil in his blog
as well.
Anil Gulecha, the student who created the LiveUSB version of BeleniX presented on BeleniX at FOSS.IN.
It was the last talk before the closing key note, and we had a full house. People sat on the stairs
and stood wherever they could.
One of the lead developers for KDE, Aaron Seigo was at FOSS.IN 2006. Moinak and Aaron had a long chat.
For more details read the blog entry of Joe G.
BOSUG meeting was held on
December 9th and the main topic was Introduction to OpenSolaris. We had over 35 members show up. Videos
of the meeting will be posted on YouTube soon.
Server Watch reviewed BeleniX. More details available here.
Joe G, Sumitha Prashanth and Vineeth Pillai went to JSS Academy of Technology, Bangalore to talk about OpenSolaris. Trip report is here.
OpenSolaris Newsletter for November features the activities of RPE India Team on OpenSolaris evangelism. More details available here.
Sudheer Abdul Salaam, Pradhap Devarajan and Ananth Shrinivas are a part of the team which delivered a training on OpenSolaris Internals to the Computer Science Faculty from 6 Indian Engineering Colleges.
And to check out how passionate folks are about OpenSolaris, please read this blog entry.
Comments:
Would it be possible for you to answer in your next blog entry, questions posed here: http://duckdown.blogspot.com/2006/02/outstanding-questions-on-opensolaris.html on Solaris?
Posted by
James
on December 20, 2006 at 06:56 PM CET
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Posted by James on December 20, 2006 at 06:56 PM CET #