OpenSolaris Day in Porto Alegre
Last week I flew over to Porto Alegre for FISL 9 and the OpenSolaris Day promoted by the PoA-OSUG, as a pre-FISL event on April 16th for the local community as well as folks who were in town for the Forum.
I was very impressed with both the organization of the OSDay and the turn out. I don't have the exact numbers but I estimate around 80 people in total attended five talks from one to six pm. The group also organized a webcast throughout the event, with a pretty good number of accesses from what I was told.
The event started with Vitorio Sassi giving an introduction to OpenSolaris, followed by Silveira Neto talking about HPC and OpenSolaris and Ricard Severo on Project Crossbow. I went on and talked about the kernel, specifically the VM and scheduling subsystems (slides here). I had to leave the event after that, but the event continued with Thirtankar Das doing a talk on Project Indiana.
 Vitorio Sassi |  the crowd |  myself |
Congrats to everyone involved in setting the event up, I'm extremely proud of how far PoA-OSUG has gone in its ~18 months of existance. Looking forward to the next one !