The OpenSolaris seminar that Robert wrote a post about wasn't the only interesting event that took place on the 12th of March.

This day was dedicated to the Jobfair, where companies from different areas (IT, telecommunications, engineering, ...) present themselves to the students, providing them information about possible job and career opportunities.

Sun was also there, informing students about open job positions for graduates and especially for students that are still studying and are looking for a job position where they could work during their studies.

We brought a bunch of t-shirts, pens and stickers with OpenSolaris and NetBeans logo to give them to the students. But since we knew that the number of students coming to our stand would be much higher than the number of gifts we have for them, we needed to make it a bit harder to get the gifts. So we prepared a quiz and a survey. And it's what this post is about.

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On 3/12/08 there was an OpenSolaris seminar inside of CVuT Campus organized by our college, CVuT Campus ambasador, Miroslav Kopecky. He spoke about advantages of OpenSolaris, metioned its interesting features such as ZFS, virtualization and Solaris Zones. Our team was also invited to tell couple of words about globalization site of OpenSolaris.[Read More]

One of the role of globalization team is to provide seameless input to any SW system.

As for Solaris, there are several ways how to achieve this goal described in previous blog recently. Shortly:

• Using Input Method Framework (IIIMF Properties panel)
• Using kbd utility
  
• Setting up the settings for Xorg, especially if you are dealing with multiple keyboard layouts

There are several projects defined in order to improve keyboard support in Solaris. Some of those projects were already  integrated to Nevada, some of them will be delivered to Solaris very soon.

1. setxkbmap utility porting to Solaris
   This utility can change keyboard maps on fly and it was already integrated to Nevada build 85. See more ...
   
   
2. Create interface(s) between Xorg/Xlib and Input Method Framework (IIIM Properties) that can be used to query and set keyboard layout for the current Xorg server.
   
   
3. Update Input Method Framework (IIIM Properties) to set Xorg keyboard layout dynamically (on fly).
   
   
4. Add Virtual keyboard support, so it can be used for various layouts for all languages.
   
   
5. Increase the coverage in SunOS keyboard layouts.
   
   
6. Increase the coverage of keyboard layouts for console during Solaris installation.
   
   
7. Increase the coverage in Xorg XKB keyboard layouts. Integrate additional keyboard layouts available in Xorg to Solaris.
   
   
8. Publish "Sun Standard" Keyboard maps in cooperation with i18n OS.o UserGroups for all languages in Solaris. The draft version has been created and published at genuix.org sites.