Alain M. Lafon / Felix Baumann: Campus Ambassador
University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart / University of Stuttgart

Alain and me had a talk on OpenSolaris on the 30th of April at the University of Stuttgart with 19 attendees.
Here are some pictures. The slides will follow soon.

A so called "Solaris Masterclass" will be held on the 18th of June from 13:30-18:30 at the University of Stuttgart (Computer Science building, room 0.108).
Further Information will follow soon.

On Wed. 30.04.2008 i will be giving an introductory talk about OpenSolaris. It will begin at 14:00 in the lecture room V38.01. This talk is within the series of the "inf.misc" talks (http://fachschaft.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/studium/infmisc/index.php) which are held by students at the university of stuttgart (computer science) for students. Hope to see you there.

Hi there, my name is Felix Baumann and I got my own blog at blogs.sun.com/fb but Alain and me have decided to conjunct our blogs because we are both Campus Ambassadors in Stuttgart so the interested people only have to look at one blog if they want information. Also we thought that we can bring up more material to this blog if we work together. In the end I'd like to thank Alain for inviting me doing this blog along with him.

Last week Felix Baumann and I did our demo. As we intended we talked about Netbeans 6.0 in general, demonstrated the power of the Matisse GUI builder, showed a few of the diverse features like database integration, debugging and profiling. Afterwards we intended an elaborate exploration of the new Visual Library and the Netbeans Module Suite, but we had to cut that one short by only making a short walkthrough, because we were already getting out of time due the very pleasing enquiries of our auditors not only concerning Netbeans, but also Sun Studio, Solaris and Zones.

I am pleased to also announce that we wrote a small advertising text about the SAI program, which is now being shown on the website of the computer center of the University of Stuttgart:

http://www.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/studium/sun.html

A picture taken during a short break.

Felix Baumann und ich werden unsere erste Tech-Demo im Rahmen des Sun Campus Ambassador Programms am Donnerstag dem 07. Feb. 2008 um 20:00 Uhr im Seminarraum 0.108 im Gebaeude der Informatik der Uni Stuttgart halten(Universitaetsstraße 38, 70569 Stuttgart; Anfahrtsbeschreibung auf: http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/kontakt/).
Das Thema wird die neue Netbeans 6.0 IDE und Linux Branded Zones unter OpenSolaris sein.
Wir freuen uns auf euren Besuch und halten Getraenke und Snacks bereit.

Finally we will have our first tech demo on one of our campusses. After being dumped on very short notice from the HDM last month we are a little behind our intended schedule, but I hope this will change.
Our demo will be on 02/07/08 and held in V38 0.108 of the University of Stuttgart. We intend to talk about Netbeans 6.0 and OpenSolaris Branded Zones(Linux).

This certainly is as late as it might get - meaning both time and date - but I had to struggle in my life due to several reasons lately which kept me from doing a lot of things - blogging maybe not the most important of all. After having thought about it, I came up with the conclusion that it couldn't hurt too much to upload some kinda outdated information, so here I go:
As mentioned before we went to the Sun Tech Days Frankfurt - and I mean to say it was a decent success. The greater lot only spent the first day there, but some of us went through with it the whole three days which turned out to be a lovely experience; I even went to dinner to the Marriot Hotel just to meet some of the guys you would usually only see on stage*g* Not having won any of the Ipods or Ultra workstations, that, the gain of being able to meet some fellow CAs as well as the tons of merchandise I had to carry home made the trip really worthwhile - did I mention that there were some really great talks about just anything Sun has to offer?^^


A very small impression on what a lecture looked like; it was taken just after we CAs had our very own intimate meeting with James Gosling himself. The hall was of course a lot bigger, not to say enormous - but I sat in front since I wanted to be able to catch the goodies; the plan worked out fine - I now own a XXXL Shirt that has the touch of James(;

A few days ago our local CA team(Felix Baumann, Frank Schlichting and myself) which has been joined by the German Chief Technologist for Solaris Franz Haberhauer has had an introductory talk with representatives of the University of Applied Sciences HDM Stuttgart. To phrase it as an understatement "the discussion went very well"(;
They already do have regular events like the "Security Day" a couple of weeks ago, a Web 2.0 Day, Gamers Day, Linux Day and so on and so forth where invited guests as well as students present new and established technologies. These events are already well seasoned, they have live Internet streaming as well as many attendants. We will be able to get involved in these events not only in our role as CAs, but they will also want senior Sun employees to give their insights; maybe Sun will even be able to provide a public speaker for their upcoming keynote regarding their 10th anniversary. Additionally they are interested in hosting whole day or half day events which are solely concerned about topics we will deploy.
I'm rather glad we got this very encouraging feedback and I am very much looking forward into our shared future with HDM Stuttgart.

I'm very pleased to announce that my university will be doing a field trip to the Tech Days in Frankfurt which has been organized by our dean and myself. Considering the number of students of computer science and related study courses I consider it a great success that there will be over 60 students joining us on the trip - at least for the one University Day - a few will stay for the whole event.