Install Fest in BUPT on March 8th
Last Sunday, March 8th, was a very special International Women's Day for me. No shopping on that big "On Sale" day. On the Thursday of that week, I got invitation from Pocky Lam, the president of BLUG , for the Install Fest in BeiYou university (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), which was particular for the most popular open source operating systems, such as OpenSolaris, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu.
The fact showed that it was indeed a meaningful holiday for me. I got very supportive helpers, William, Forrest, Rebecca and Robert in the Install Fest. And many students got impressed by William's speech for OpenSolaris Introduction and Forrest's speech for ZFS. I was jealous that there were always students gathering around them to ask questions and asked help for installation of OpenSolaris 2008.11.
We were very glad to see the students' enthusiasm for new technology and we also got surprised that one of them was very familiar with ZFS and other file systems. And because the event was successful and yesterday there was a fresh invitation to hold another Install Fest in Beiyou university again, but in a different district. The planned event is supposed to happen on this weekend March 15th. Probably we will have some different helpers this time.
I've been attending/participating Beijing OpenSolaris User Group events on last Thursday of EVERY MONTH, since Jan. 2008. It is still a very different feeling to participate activities in school. Especially when walking down the avenue in the campus, surrounding by energetic teenagers, we are easily to be brought back to those good old days. It's probably the real Pure Spring I've been looking for.
Pictures of the Install Fest can be found here.
Posted at 09:48AM Mar 11, 2009 by rachelzhang in Sun | Comments[1]
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