Sustaining in Open Source Era Open RPE

Tuesday Dec 12, 2006

  • Sun Tech Days were held in Prague from November 14th to November 16th. Many people from our organizition participated on this event:
    • Chris Armes had keynotes at OpenSolaris Day and Solaris Development track.
    • Chris Beal presented about OpenSolaris Virtualization Technologies.
    • Engineers from the Solaris RPE and NPE teams in Prague prepared four booths with demos concerning OpenSolaris Installation, DTrace, BrandZ and SunRay. The main owners of the stands were Vlada Kotal, Vlada Marek, Vita Batrla and Marcel Telka.

    • Milos Muzik and Jiri Cervenka prepared LiveUSB BeleniX image for OpenSolaris memory stick. These sticks were given was given away during several OpenSolaris presentations.

    • Lukas Rovensky had presentation about OpenSolaris at University Day.
  • CZOUSG meeting #12 was held at the end of OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days in Prague.
  • Vita Batrla, Milan Jurik, and Lukas Rovensky visited West Bohemia University in Pilsen and presented there about OpenSolaris.
  • Lukas Rovensky visited with Teresa Giacomini Department of Computers at Czech Technical University and Department of Software Engineering at Charles University and discussed there options concerning usage of OpenSolaris in computer science curriculum.
  • Milan Jurik visited Department of Computer Science at FEI VŠB Technical University Ostrava and presented there about OpenSolaris.
  • 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.
    • Diann Olden did a press interview for Times of India.
    • Engineers from the Bangalore Solaris RPE teams particpated at FOSS, a lot of information can be found at Joe George's blog. A quick summary:
      • Press Coverage from:
        • Times of  India - on the front page
        • The Hindu
        • Headlines Today & Aaj Tak TV Channel
        • Red Herring
    • 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.
  • LOSUG meeting was held on November 15th and the main topic was FMA
  • 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.
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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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