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Friday July 25, 2008 The 2008 OpenSolaris Developer Conference in Prague was a great success. There were a lot of great talks and I tip my hat to Dirk Wetter, Wolfgang Stief, Martin Man and Lukas Rovensky and the other conference organizers. You really put on a great event!
I gave the OpenSolaris Testing talk. Deirdre Straughan did a great job, as usual, taping the event, so I have video and slides of the presentation. I allowed attendees to access a Sun Fire x4150 with two Intel Quad-Core Xeon processors from the OpenSolaris Test Farm. It's an excellent OpenSolaris build server platform and was a great hit at the conference. I gave people the access information at the beginning of my talk, and by the end many people will logged on to take a look. I started a nightly build of the SFW consolidation during my talk. Here's the video:
Here's a picture of Deirdre, Jim Grisanzio, Rich Brueckner, Dave Stewart and I at dinner after the second day of the conference during the boat trip up and down the Vltava river in Prague.
I gave the OpenSolaris Testing talk. Deirdre Straughan did a great job, as usual, taping the event, so I have video and slides of the presentation. I allowed attendees to access a Sun Fire x4150 with two Intel Quad-Core Xeon processors from the OpenSolaris Test Farm. It's an excellent OpenSolaris build server platform and was a great hit at the conference. I gave people the access information at the beginning of my talk, and by the end many people will logged on to take a look. I started a nightly build of the SFW consolidation during my talk. Here's the video:
Here's a picture of Deirdre, Jim Grisanzio, Rich Brueckner, Dave Stewart and I at dinner after the second day of the conference during the boat trip up and down the Vltava river in Prague.
Tuesday April 22, 2008 With over 3200 people in attendance, Sun Tech Days 2008 in St. Petersburg, Russia was another successful developer event, and I had the pleasure of working with my colleagues from the local Sun office. It was nice to return to St. Petersburg. I visited Leningrad in December 1988, so I noticed a lot of change. The city is definitely the Paris of the north. I gave the OpenSolaris Testing and OpenStorage for OpenSolaris presentations during OpenSolaris Day on April 4th. I gave the presentations in the main hall where the keynotes where given and had a great audience of over 150 people. Alexander Belokrylov did a great job with the demos, and I enjoyed engaging with the audience and got cheers everytime I spoke a little Russian. I have never seen better questions, and we had more questions than time after both presentations.
In addition, I supported Jim Hughes, with the ZFS demo during the Solaris Track keynote on April 3rd. Here's a picture of Jim, Kirill Nikonchuk, who setup the hardware and me the night before. We had some USB issues with a PC clone, but once we switch to a Sun Ultra 40 everything worked. This picture was taken unattended by timer from the keynote podium. Also here's a pointer to the ZFS is Smashing Baby video on YouTube.
Later in the day after the keynote, my wife Suzanne and I climbed up to the colonnade on St. Isaac's Cathedral to enjoy the view. Here's a picture of me in a Z-DAY tshirt, which highlights Halloween 2005, when zfs was first integrated into Solaris.
In addition, I supported Jim Hughes, with the ZFS demo during the Solaris Track keynote on April 3rd. Here's a picture of Jim, Kirill Nikonchuk, who setup the hardware and me the night before. We had some USB issues with a PC clone, but once we switch to a Sun Ultra 40 everything worked. This picture was taken unattended by timer from the keynote podium. Also here's a pointer to the ZFS is Smashing Baby video on YouTube.
Later in the day after the keynote, my wife Suzanne and I climbed up to the colonnade on St. Isaac's Cathedral to enjoy the view. Here's a picture of me in a Z-DAY tshirt, which highlights Halloween 2005, when zfs was first integrated into Solaris.
Monday April 14, 2008 Paul Mitchell's blog post on dual booting a MacBook Pro pointed me in the right direction. Since then, I created this wiki page on genunix.org so we can further refine the process: OpenSolaris Dual Boot Wiki
Here is the image of what you will get at boot time on your MacBook Pro
Here is the image of what you will get at boot time on your MacBook Pro
Friday February 29, 2008 Moinak Ghosh presented the OpenSolaris Testing
presentation at the Hyderabad Tech Days. Moinak is a great speaker and well know for his contributions to the BeleniX OpenSolaris distribution. I'm glad to get him to do the presentation.
Here's a blurb from Moinak:
"The presentation went well. I could manage the demos questions and all without exceeding the time limit. Murphy was not present in the room so I had zero problems with the demos :)
There were about 200 people in the room. I began my preso with questions like:
How many of you have seen or ever logged into a SPARC machine ?
A couple of hands.
How many have seen or logged into a 16-core 32G Opteron box ?
Just one hand raised.
How many would want access to such machines ?
All hands raised :)
So you need to become an OpenSolaris contributor and contribute fixes/enhancements ..."
Here's a blurb from Moinak:
"The presentation went well. I could manage the demos questions and all without exceeding the time limit. Murphy was not present in the room so I had zero problems with the demos :)
There were about 200 people in the room. I began my preso with questions like:
How many of you have seen or ever logged into a SPARC machine ?
A couple of hands.
How many have seen or logged into a 16-core 32G Opteron box ?
Just one hand raised.
How many would want access to such machines ?
All hands raised :)
So you need to become an OpenSolaris contributor and contribute fixes/enhancements ..."
Tuesday February 12, 2008 The Test Development Project page on opensolaris.org has been established at:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/test-dev/
In the next few weeks we will be adding more content, including:
- Solaris Test Collection source and package repository
- Open HA Cluster Test source and package repository
- Test Framework and Test Tools information pages
And, that's just the beginning...
To get involved with the OpenSolaris test development discussion, you can subscribe to the test-dev discussion list at:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/test-dev/discussions/
We look forward to having more contributors to the project.
Cheers,
Initial Test Development Project Team
Joel Buckley
Thelan Nguyen
Clarence Nie
U.V. Ravindra
Jim Walker
Sean Wilcox
Friday December 14, 2007 My wife Suzanne took this picture while we were in Tokyo visiting the National Museum. I think it is nice, and the artist approved.
Sunday October 28, 2007 OpenSolaris Developer Summit sweat shirt made it to the Great Wall today (on my back).
Friday October 19, 2007 
Friday September 14, 2007 This months FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, September 27th 2007. I will give a presentation on OpenSolaris Testing.
Along with that we will have people on hand to help you install Solaris or help with any issues you may have.
! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits & Solaris Express Developer Edition DVD's !
About the presentation:
The OpenSolaris Testing presentation will discuss some of the current OpenSolaris Testing Community initiatives, including open source test suites, OpenSolaris Self-Service Testing, the OpenSolaris test farm, and how OpenSolaris developers and test engineers can use and contribute to these resources to help ensure the quality of the OpenSolaris code base. The presentation will include live demos of the Self-Service Testing application, the test farm reservation tool and remote testing using test farm machines. In addition, Jim will give a short overview of the Mercurial source control management system used by OpenSolaris.
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/
The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.
About our presenter:
Jim Walker is a Staff Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems and a member of the Solaris Quality Engineering organization. Jim joined Sun in 2002, and was the test lead for UFS, Default Logging, Multi-Terabyte UFS and the ZFS projects, and is currently the test lead for OpenSolaris and the SCM-Migration project. He is also one of the rotating leaders of FROSUG. Jim studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Purdue University and Computer Science and Business Management at the University of Colorado. He has traveled extensively and enjoys his home in Boulder, Colorado with his lovely and wonderful wife Suzanne.
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Meeting Details:
When: Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 8:30pm OpenSolaris Testing
Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021
Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067
The meeting is free and open to the public.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to rsvp (AT) frosug (DOT) org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.
We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG
Along with that we will have people on hand to help you install Solaris or help with any issues you may have.
! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits & Solaris Express Developer Edition DVD's !
About the presentation:
The OpenSolaris Testing presentation will discuss some of the current OpenSolaris Testing Community initiatives, including open source test suites, OpenSolaris Self-Service Testing, the OpenSolaris test farm, and how OpenSolaris developers and test engineers can use and contribute to these resources to help ensure the quality of the OpenSolaris code base. The presentation will include live demos of the Self-Service Testing application, the test farm reservation tool and remote testing using test farm machines. In addition, Jim will give a short overview of the Mercurial source control management system used by OpenSolaris.
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/
The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.
About our presenter:
Jim Walker is a Staff Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems and a member of the Solaris Quality Engineering organization. Jim joined Sun in 2002, and was the test lead for UFS, Default Logging, Multi-Terabyte UFS and the ZFS projects, and is currently the test lead for OpenSolaris and the SCM-Migration project. He is also one of the rotating leaders of FROSUG. Jim studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Purdue University and Computer Science and Business Management at the University of Colorado. He has traveled extensively and enjoys his home in Boulder, Colorado with his lovely and wonderful wife Suzanne.
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Meeting Details:
When: Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 8:30pm OpenSolaris Testing
Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021
Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067
The meeting is free and open to the public.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to rsvp (AT) frosug (DOT) org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.
We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG
Thursday July 19, 2007 Information on this month's Front Range OpenSolaris User Group meeting has been posted at:
http://frosug.org
Friday June 29, 2007 Here's some pictures from last nights FROSUG meeting. We celebrated the 2-year Anniversary of OpenSolaris by having some cake before the meeting presentation.
It was gooood cake...
After the festivities, Bonnie Corwin, the OpenSolaris Engineering Manager, presented "OpenSolaris: Still in a Storm". Who's title is borrowed from Jim Grisanzio's "OpenSolaris: in a Storm" presentation, which discussed how fast Sun and the OpenSolaris Engineering team moved to make OpenSolaris a reality. Bonnie indicated that her team is still moving fast. The presentation covered what the OpenSolaris Engineering Team does, gave an OpenSolaris Anniversary update (OpenSolaris at Two) and talked about where OpenSolaris is going in the future. The presentation slides along with a recording is posted at frosug.org. This was another great FROSUG presenation.
After the festivities, Bonnie Corwin, the OpenSolaris Engineering Manager, presented "OpenSolaris: Still in a Storm". Who's title is borrowed from Jim Grisanzio's "OpenSolaris: in a Storm" presentation, which discussed how fast Sun and the OpenSolaris Engineering team moved to make OpenSolaris a reality. Bonnie indicated that her team is still moving fast. The presentation covered what the OpenSolaris Engineering Team does, gave an OpenSolaris Anniversary update (OpenSolaris at Two) and talked about where OpenSolaris is going in the future. The presentation slides along with a recording is posted at frosug.org. This was another great FROSUG presenation.
Friday June 15, 2007 This month's Front Range OpenSolaris User Group meeting is on
Thursday, June 28, 2007. Bonnie Corwin will give an OpenSolaris Engineering
Update. In addition, we will be celebrating the 2-year OpenSolaris anniversary!
!! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits and Solaris Express Developer Edition DVDs. !!
About the presentation:
The OpenSolaris Engineering Team Update will include information on the following areas:
- New Open Code/Communities/Projects/Contributions
- New Country Portals
- New OGB Processes
- Source Code Management: moving to Mercurial
- Website: operational infrastructure and open sourcing application code
The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.
About our presenter:
Bonnie Corwin is a Senior Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris Engineering Team manager. She has worked at Sun for 15 years in various software engineering and management roles. The OpenSolaris Engineering Team investigated the feasibility of opening the Solaris source code, ran the pre-launch OpenSolaris Pilot program and executed the launch of OpenSolaris. It currently manages the OpenSolaris site infrastructure including site hosting operations and website applications and supports key community activities including the OpenSolaris governance process and elections, OpenSolaris code contributions, bug tracking, source code management, country portals, the OpenSolaris Starter Kit and conferences.
Meeting Details:
When: Thursday, June 28, 2007
Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 6:45pm OpenSolaris 2-year Anniversary Celebration
6:45pm - 8:30pm OpenSolaris Engineering Update
Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021
Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067
The meeting is free and open to the public.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to rsvp(AT)frosug.org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.
We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG
Future Meeting Plans:
If you have ideas for topics or have a topic you would like to present, send them to: ug-frosug(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org.
!! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits and Solaris Express Developer Edition DVDs. !!
About the presentation:
The OpenSolaris Engineering Team Update will include information on the following areas:
- New Open Code/Communities/Projects/Contributions
- New Country Portals
- New OGB Processes
- Source Code Management: moving to Mercurial
- Website: operational infrastructure and open sourcing application code
The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.
About our presenter:
Bonnie Corwin is a Senior Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris Engineering Team manager. She has worked at Sun for 15 years in various software engineering and management roles. The OpenSolaris Engineering Team investigated the feasibility of opening the Solaris source code, ran the pre-launch OpenSolaris Pilot program and executed the launch of OpenSolaris. It currently manages the OpenSolaris site infrastructure including site hosting operations and website applications and supports key community activities including the OpenSolaris governance process and elections, OpenSolaris code contributions, bug tracking, source code management, country portals, the OpenSolaris Starter Kit and conferences.
Meeting Details:
When: Thursday, June 28, 2007
Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 6:45pm OpenSolaris 2-year Anniversary Celebration
6:45pm - 8:30pm OpenSolaris Engineering Update
Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021
Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067
The meeting is free and open to the public.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to rsvp(AT)frosug.org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.
We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG
Future Meeting Plans:
If you have ideas for topics or have a topic you would like to present, send them to: ug-frosug(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org.
Wednesday May 30, 2007 This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on
Thursday, May 31, 2007. Brad Lewis and Tim Jacobson will give a
presentation on Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools. In addition, we
will be giving an OpenSolaris Update, and will be having an InstallFest.
So, if you want help installing an OpenSolaris distribution, backup your
laptop and bring it to the meeting!
!! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits and Solaris Express Developer Edition DVDs. !!
About the presentation:
OpenSolaris includes the best package of compilers and tools for developers. This free package is called Sun Studio and version 12 will be released in June. This presentation will give an overview of the components of Sun Studio and new improvements for version 12. In addition, there will be several short demonstrations using performance and diagnostic tools.
The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.
About our presenters:
Brad Lewis and Tim Jacobson work in the Performance Library Group (Perflib). Perflib is a collection of Mathematical Routines for Scientific Computing. These routines are custom written to obtain the highest performance on Sun hardware for both stand-alone and parallel systems.
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Meeting Details:
When: Thursday, May 31, 2007
Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 6:45pm OpenSolaris Update
6:45pm - 8:30pm Sun Studio 12 Compiler
Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021
Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067
The meeting is free and open to the public.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to frosug-rsvp(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.
We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG
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Future Meeting Plans:
June 28, 2007:
Bonnie Corwin presents "OpenSolaris: Where We Are and Where We're Going". In addition, we will celebrate OpenSolaris's two year Anniversary!!
If you have ideas for topics or have a topic you would like to present, send them to: ug-frosug(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org
!! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits and Solaris Express Developer Edition DVDs. !!
About the presentation:
OpenSolaris includes the best package of compilers and tools for developers. This free package is called Sun Studio and version 12 will be released in June. This presentation will give an overview of the components of Sun Studio and new improvements for version 12. In addition, there will be several short demonstrations using performance and diagnostic tools.
The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.
About our presenters:
Brad Lewis and Tim Jacobson work in the Performance Library Group (Perflib). Perflib is a collection of Mathematical Routines for Scientific Computing. These routines are custom written to obtain the highest performance on Sun hardware for both stand-alone and parallel systems.
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Meeting Details:
When: Thursday, May 31, 2007
Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 6:45pm OpenSolaris Update
6:45pm - 8:30pm Sun Studio 12 Compiler
Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021
Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067
The meeting is free and open to the public.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to frosug-rsvp(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.
We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG
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Future Meeting Plans:
June 28, 2007:
Bonnie Corwin presents "OpenSolaris: Where We Are and Where We're Going". In addition, we will celebrate OpenSolaris's two year Anniversary!!
If you have ideas for topics or have a topic you would like to present, send them to: ug-frosug(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org
Friday April 27, 2007 We have the first rack in place and have pictures of the OpenSolaris Test Farm. We are in the process of completing the install and setup automation and reservation tool. Once we get things finished up, its going to allow OpenSolaris Contributors to unit test their software on various platforms, which will speed-up the integration process into the OpenSolaris code base.
Monday April 23, 2007 This month's FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on
Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Our presentation is on "Open Source Management"
by Dave McLoughlin. In addition, we will be giving an OpenSolaris Update,
and will be having an InstallFest. So, if you want help installing
an OpenSolaris distribution, backup your laptop and bring it to the
meeting!
!! We will be providing FREE Solaris Express Developer Edition DVDs. !!
About the presentation:
In this presentation we will learn about how OpenLogic is tackling the tough issues associated with selecting, supporting, managing and using open source software in enterprises today. The presentation will include a product demonstration of OpenLogic Enterprise, a tool designed to help developers deal the various issues associated with installing, configuring and integrating the many components of an open source development environment. More information is at: http://www.openlogic.com.
The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.
About our presenter:
Dave McLoughlin has over 20 years in the software industry working in technical sales, support and product management positions. He has worked for many market leading companies including Ashton-Tate, Frame Technology, Netscape and iPlanet, the Sun Netscape Alliance. He recently joined OpenLogic in the position of Solutions Engineer, where he is responsible for all technical sales efforts worldwide.
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Meeting Details:
When: Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 6:45pm OpenSolaris Update
6:45pm - 8:30pm Open Source Management
Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021
Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067
The meeting is free and open to the public.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to frosug-rsvp(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.
We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG
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Future Meeting Plans:
May 31, 2007: Tim Jacobson and Brad Lewis present "The Sun Studio Compiler"
If you have ideas for meeting topics, send them to: ug-frosug(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org
!! We will be providing FREE Solaris Express Developer Edition DVDs. !!
About the presentation:
In this presentation we will learn about how OpenLogic is tackling the tough issues associated with selecting, supporting, managing and using open source software in enterprises today. The presentation will include a product demonstration of OpenLogic Enterprise, a tool designed to help developers deal the various issues associated with installing, configuring and integrating the many components of an open source development environment. More information is at: http://www.openlogic.com.
The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.
About our presenter:
Dave McLoughlin has over 20 years in the software industry working in technical sales, support and product management positions. He has worked for many market leading companies including Ashton-Tate, Frame Technology, Netscape and iPlanet, the Sun Netscape Alliance. He recently joined OpenLogic in the position of Solutions Engineer, where he is responsible for all technical sales efforts worldwide.
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Meeting Details:
When: Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 6:45pm OpenSolaris Update
6:45pm - 8:30pm Open Source Management
Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021
Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067
The meeting is free and open to the public.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to frosug-rsvp(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.
We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG
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Future Meeting Plans:
May 31, 2007: Tim Jacobson and Brad Lewis present "The Sun Studio Compiler"
If you have ideas for meeting topics, send them to: ug-frosug(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org