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]
Meeting with Jim Grisanzio and some updates recently
Yesterday (Sep 24), our team (Asian Globalization team) had a wonderful meeting with Jim Grisanzio.
And he blogged about our meeting. Check it at meeting globally.
He is coming for 20th Beijing OpenSolaris user group meeting (Sep 25), where he will give a talk about Building an Open Community.
Some updates:
1. We succeeded to hold our first Chengdu OpenSolaris User Group Salon in Chengdu on August 23rd, one cafe house near Sichuan University.
The atmosphere
in the salon was harmonious and enthusiastic. Ardent discussing and kind
communications were running through in the whole meeting.
Moreover,Eric Guo, who belongs to the Sale Group based in Chendu,
offer tremendous supports for this activity. We are so glad that
he is the one of the core team of the user group and gave much
contribution.
Three sections were included in the salon. the first was the
introduction. The second one was presenting the Wonderland,
which was made by BaiXianPing, a Campus ambassador, and
"OpenSolaris vs Linux" by Eric Guo, and the Opensolaris new
features, demostrating installation of Indiana. the last
section is QA and discussion.
Some pictures are at:http://picasaweb.google.com/cdosug/
2. I was invited to an talk show by Mozilla Online. The interviewed was given by ZOL (Zhong Guan Cun Online) on August 13th. Topic was related with Open Source. The whole process was very interesting. I indeed had fun there. Check video here.
Posted at 10:46AM Sep 24, 2008 by rachelzhang in Sun | Comments[0]
Came back from SUN Tech Days 2007
Sun Techdays 2007 was held successfully in Beijing from Nov. 1 to Nov. 3.
Comparing with previous one, this year's tech day has some differences from last year's.
There were more developers attending this year's techday, around 5k registration for the first day's meetings. For the third day's OpenSolaris Day, there were around 180 people in the one day meeting.
And more exciting thing is that I had the opportunity to be the host for OpenSolaris Beijing user group meeting. : )
It was really a fresh experience for me. Since I am a member of Speakeasy@sunbeijing Toastmaster club, and I practice a little bit from each TM meeting, I didn't felt nervous and I found that I like to give some impromptu talks other than prepared speeches. It was really amazing experience. A colleague told me that he didn't find my talk was that literary during our everyday talk before, and he liked my hosting style. I was happy to hear so. And I am also grateful for so many attendees on the spot, because all of them have the passion for OpenSolaris, for OpenSource.
Only one comment for the whole tech day activity is that they provided SunRays for users to try, but the server was quite slow and there were no Chinese fonts and locale on the JDS. They were not good experiences for most Chinese users, I guess.
Posted at 03:33PM Nov 04, 2007 by rachelzhang in Sun | Comments[2]
Sun Tech Days 2007
It's really a piece of good news that Sun will have great events in coming days - Sun Tech Days in Shanghai and Beijing.
All the developers, Java/Solaris lovers and open source community folks will be very welcomed to the events. From the previous experiences of Sun Tech days 2005 and 2006, they were quite well organized and a lot of famous and senior Sun people shared their knowledge and latest technology with us. The feedback was very satisfying.
Now it's time for registration. Don't miss the chance.
For more information, please visit techday website:
Chinese info: http://www.suntechdays.cn/
English info: http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/
See you there.
Posted at 11:21PM Oct 15, 2007 by rachelzhang in Sun | Comments[0]
Checkout JDS build files from OpenSolaris.org
Anonymous SVN checkout is open for everybody on OpenSolaris.org
Here is svn checkout command.
% svn co svn+ssh://anon@svn.opensolaris.org/svn/jds/spec-files/trunk spec-files
The following is the details:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/contributing/building/
Posted at 08:15AM Jun 08, 2007 by rachelzhang in Sun | Comments[0]
Start to be a blogger
Today when I went through my photo albums, a family photo of PGC colleagues just came into my sight. It was taken on April 12th, 2007. Then I started to realize that we had already spent half of year 2007. In the past 6 months, lots of fresh and interesting things happened.
One first big news was our department launched IWork pilot program.
Another thing was I traveled a lot. First in Prague, then in 6 cites around South East China.
One of recent activities was having meeting with Mozilla.com VP Mike Shreopfer and Senior Engineer Johny Stenback. The most exciting part was talking with Mozilla Online CEO, Mr. Gong Li. After his reminding, I posted first comment on his new weblog,http://blog.mozilla.com/ligong/2007/05/31/bootstrapping-in-china/#comments . The content was about Simplified Chinese version of Mozilla Manifesto.
So many nice memories for the past few months... I will try to collect all of them and archive the stories in this blog. Here is the picture which triggered the idea of blogging. : )
http://blogs.sun.com/rachelz/resource/g11n_prg2.JPG .
Anyway, it's good to blog. It's good to be a blogger. : )
Posted at 11:05PM Jun 06, 2007 by rachelzhang in Sun | Comments[0]
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