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OpenSolaris Tech Talk and SIG OpenSolaris Call Out

On October 10th, I gave my first tech talk of this year. Once again, I am the Student Ambassador at Purdue University. This specific tech talk was very packed. During this session, I gave a tech talk over OpenSolaris and a call out for our OSUG at Purdue, the ACM SIG, SIGOS. After I was done speaking, Ian Murdock was there to give an overview of the Indiana Project. Including Students (graduate and undergraduate), staff and others, about 30 attended.

Outside of OpenSolaris in general, the two other main points of concentration for the evening were SIGOS and Project Indiana. Project Indiana is aimed at distributing a binary distribution of OpenSolaris with built in package management (akin to apt-get in Debian/Ubuntu). SIGOS (which I have already previously blogged about), is the special interest group at Purdue University of OpenSolaris development. We will be having our first meeting for the year soon :-). I will likewise keep all of you updated as to how it is going.

Those who were there were asking questions throughout the presentation. Ian Murdock's presentation was great as well. At the end of the session, 10 people signed up for SIGOS. Overall, the night was a success.



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Posted at 01:27PM Nov 12, 2007 by jmicklos in Sun  |  Comments[0]