Alcides Maya's teck-talk #1
Today I went to Alcides Maya technical school to explain some concepts of Open Source, OpenSolaris, java, Netbeans and PostgreSQL to studies. In fact I done 5 different tech-talks all day long.
I started talking about Open Source for the beginners, 40 minutes after I talked about java for different class, more 40 minutes I talked about PostgreSQL for another class. In the night I come back to talked for the seniors... The first talk are about OpenSolaris, 40 minutes after Natali (a girl of group), talked about java, and 40 minutes later I finish the night talked about Netbeans.
Next Tuesday the group come back to the school to done more tech-talks. The goal of School's direction is to talk to every student about one of the Sun's technology 
Pictures of the tech-talks done today are available here
I have funny a lot today, but serious, I'm really very tired.
Myself during the PostgreSQL's tech-talk
Posted at 12:00AM Mai 13, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
Meeting with Crawford Beveridge at São Paulo
Today was a busy and great day. Crawford Beveridge came to Brazil and want to know the campus ambassador and understand how the program works in Brazil. So all the ambassadors are invited for this meeting. Off course, Eduardo Lima are presented on the meeting too.
The campus ambassadors from Rio Grande do Sul take a plane to São Paulo at 12:00pm, participated of the meeting and take another plane to come back to our homes. I went with Glaucio Souza, Ricardo Severo and Stephania.
During the meeting Eduardo Lima show the videos that I done with him and Bruno Souza and Rafael Tinoco. I guess Crawford like the videos, and we talked a little about the Porto Alegre OpenSolaris User Group. He like to know Rafael Vanoni and others ambassadors participated our meeting by skype.
In the end of meeting I gave a gift to Crawford, it's a knife and fork used to barbecue (typical food in Rio Grande do Sul).
By the way, the videos that I mentioned here are available here
From left to right: Glaucio, myself, Ricardo Severo and Stephania
Myself with Crawford Beveridge
Posted at 12:00AM Mai 12, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
Indiana University Tour '08 - Summary
After 4 days just talking, thinking and showing the Indiana. The tour is over 
. Ok, it's not a problem, in same cases it's a good idea come back to studies and the day-by-day.
During this 4 days (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday), the group went in 4 different university, different cities just to show the new OpenSolaris. It's a great job, I really can't imagine some day the group will done something like that. But in fact I'm very very proud and very happy. Because, the numbers are great too. We done 4 teck-talks in different universities (as I said), more than 40 people on the total now know or just herd about that and the group groing up (again).
I need to said tanks a lot to the PoaOSUG one more time.
Said tanks in special to Ronaldo, Stephania, Glaucio and Severo.
Myself, Stephania and some students of Puc-RS after the last tech-talk of the tour
More pictures of the Indiana University Tour '08 are available here
Posted at 12:00AM Mai 09, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
Indiana University Tour '08 - UFRGS and Puc-RS
This is the last day of the tour and I'm really satisfied. In tree days the group done 4 tech-talks in different cities, different universities... Another good point in my opinion was the presentation are the same for everybody. This are a great facility because some time you can explain with your words to another ambassador what does ming a specific point.
Today at lunch's time around 10 people attend my talk at Instituto de Informática of UFRGS in Porto Alegre. At end of talk a lot of questions and one Asus EEEPC900 extend the event. One girl ask if she can install the OpenSolaris on her laptop. I take the little laptop and plug my pen-drive who has the OpenSolaris 2008.05 embedded The hardware is celeron 900MHz with 512 MB of memory, I really don't remeber the disk's size. The system booting and running, a little be slow (off-course). The owner of laptop like a lot and said that she's surprised with the result.
At end of the day Stephania (ambassador from Puc-RS), conduct your first tech-talk at Faculdade de Informática. A little be nervous at the begin, she done a faster presentation because her time. It's ok, I remember my first talk, the most important was same at UFRGS the attenders done a lot of questions. And some guys ask for becoming a member of PoaOSUG.
Today was a good and busy day to us. Now it's time to do a summary of the last 3 days and think in the future.
Posted at 05:07PM Mai 07, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
Indiana University Tour '08 - Unisinos
Today we started the Indiana University Tour '08, that consist basically in a series of tech-talks about the Indiana in some University in Porto Alegre and near cities. The first one was the Unisinos that are located in São Leopoldo, 34 km from Porto Alegre's downtown.
I'm conduct the talk and Ronaldo made some explanations of the new OpenSolaris. We showed some screen-shots and in the end of talk we demonstrate the 2008.05 running in a live usb. Everybody like that saw, apparently, and some people said that will subscribe to our mailing-list.
Very good for the first day.
If you are want know more about the Indiand University Tour '08 and the schedule look at Porto Alegre OpenSolaris User Group
Me and Ronaldo after the teck-talk.
Posted at 11:18PM Mai 05, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
Indiana launched!
Finally the May 5 coming, the Indiana or OpenSolaris 2008.05 was launched. I just talked about the features of new version last week, and you can read here. But I will repeat, that I'm was very impressed with the "Device Driver Utility". In my opinion this tool will help to increase the number of users a lot.
A few moments a go (now it's 4:00am in Brazil), finished a live training session about the OpenSolaris 2008.05. It was a great opportunity for solved the last doubts of new version. Around 16 ambassadors participated the session. And the most of them are Braziliam
Participated myself, Pedro from Rio de Janeiro, Silveira from Fortaleza, Marcelo Arbore, Larissa and Levi (sorry if I forgot someone). Participated too guys from Chile, Colombia, Germany and so on. The center point of the session is to show the new version of OpenSolaris, show the install process and as I said, solve the last doubts.
Now it's time to prepare the material and show to the rest of PoaOSUG the new OpenSolaris. And to done the talks that are schedule in during this week. In total there are 4 talks schedule until May 7. You can see the schedule of the talks here.
Coming soon for the results...
A few seconds before to start the session at 3:00am in Brazil
The OpenSolaris 2008.05 booting on the virtual box
Posted at 04:25AM Mai 05, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
OpenSolaris chat
Today we have a OpenSolaris chat at freenode.org. About 35 peoples watching and done relevant questions. It's a great opportunity to know more about the Indiana project and to understand some features of the system. First the chat was appointed to a Sun's URL, but I guess the server have some problems withe the bandwidth, so the organizer prefer create a channel at freenode.org to discuss the Indiana's project.
Participated the chat myself, Stephania (ambassador from Puc), Ricardo Severo (amabassador from Santa Cruz do Sul) and Gabriela Souza (ambassador from São Paulo)
Myself alone at chat
Everybody at freenode.org
Posted at 12:00AM Mai 01, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
Alcides Maya's meeting
Today I have a meeting with some teacher of Alcides Maya's school to explain the Open Source initiative's of sun. Te attenders, teachers in general made some interesting and relevant questions about the installation and the tools of OpenSolaris. The funniest, in this case, was when I explained that the SXDE comes with everything (Netbeans, PostgreSQL, Sun Studio and anothers) built-in, everybody was surprised.
After my small talk, available here, some teacher talk about the difficult to find good java's programmer and java's teacher. It's what I want to listen! So I can explain the initiative of Sun's training. And one more time, the guys was surprised a lot
After 1 hour, the meeting finished with some good conclusions. Now it's time to send this information to my manager and maybe done some business. Very good!
Posted at 12:24AM Abr 30, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
OpenSolaris preview
Everybody was waiting for the Indiana that will launch in May 5. Until this day we have the RC to test the new features and saw the look and feel of the system. Today I read the instructions of Rafael Vanoni and try to use this preview in a USB stick.
First I download the iso image in a torrent file, and here I just impressed because there are a lot of seeders on the net. So it's too fast download the file. Donwload files in torrent it's simple ok, I know. My problems started when I try to burn the image in my USB stick. I have this error:
bash-3.2$ distro_constructor/tools/usbgen 0805rc2a.iso usb.iso /tmp/
distro_constructor/tools/usbgen: line 43: lofiadm: command not found
I simple talk with my mentor and he said: "look your path"
My path are ok, but if I navigate until the directory and run ./usbgen the command running without problems. Sometimes I don't have the answers...
After that I boot the new OpenSolaris or Indiana (choose your name), and I really like that I saw. The look of the system are very, very cool. The default username used is "jack", the name of OpenSolaris mascot. But in Brazil it's difficult to find a guy to know who is jack The best tool in my opinion is the "Device Driver Utility". Actually we heard a lot of people how said that OpenSolaris have problems with device driver. I guess this problem was solved with this utility.
So... let's waiting for the May 5.
Some screenshots
The desktop with a terminal, look at the username
The Device Driver Utility
Posted at 09:53PM Abr 27, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
April's meeting of Porto Alegre OpenSolaris User Group
This night are done the April's meeting of Porto Alegre OpenSolaris User Group. Participated on site Vitório Sassi, Marcelo Leal, Ronaldo Prass, Cristiano Basso and Glaucio Souza. And participated by skype Rafael Vanoni from Dublin and Gabriela Souza from São Paulo.
In the first part of meeting I done an overview of the 2 events last week, the OpenSolaris Day and the fisl. The presentation are available in here. The second part of the meeting are used to talk about the launch of Indiana project on next May 5, new updates on group's site and administrative tasks.
I'm used the meeting to delivery some t-shirts, caps, keyring and starter kits that I received this week sent by the Advocacy Group. One more time tanks Jim!
From left to right: Vitorio and Ronaldo
Bellow: Marcelo Leal, Cristiano Basso and Glaucio Souza
Posted at 11:38PM Abr 24, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
The advocacy kit
Last night when I came to home I recived 2 big box with my name. I just think that is the advocacy kits, but I anybody tell me that the box are so heavy to bring 5 floor up We recived a lot of t-shirts, caps, keyring and starter kits
Tanks to Jim Grisanzio.
The full kit
Posted at 01:06PM Abr 23, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
Summary of fisl and OpenSolaris Day
After almost a week in events talking about OpenSolaris, Open Source and things related it's very strange when everything over, the people go to our home and you are alone again.
But the summary of this event was positive in my opinion. We can reach the goals that we expected. That is show the OpenSolaris, java and the another tecnologies of Sun. And increase the opinios (good or not), about that.
The numbers of event are:
- almost 1000 OpenSolaris books
- 2 box of OpenSolaris DVD
- 10 new laptops running the SXDE
- a lot of gifts like pens, t-shirt and cubes
I need to say tanks to the Porto Alegre OpenSolaris User Group for the help, say tanks to Sun that provide the gifts, DVD and books, to another ambassadors that come to Porto Alegre and help us. This events was a success because all of us help and done your part.
From left to right: Eduardo Lima (the boss), Thiago Gonzaga (ambassador from Rio Preto-SP), Ronaldo, Fábio (ambassador from Aparecida-SP), Vitório (ambassador from Porto Alegre-RS) and Marcelo Leal. Above: Pedro (ambassador from Rio de Janeiro), Lucas Torri (ambassador from Florianopolis-SC) and Glaucio Souza (ambassador from Porto Alegre)
Posted at 12:00AM Abr 20, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
fisl #3
The last day of fisl begin with a lot of work. Everybody of the group sleep until 9:30am so I mount our stand alone (tanks guys). But it's ok...
More box of OpenSolaris book came and we have material for everyone. It's the last day of the event, so it's time to delivery all gifts and done a big party. As Roger's said in your talk "find your passion" 
Some students done a kind of interview with me and Rafael Vanoni to your course. And we have to answer a lot of aspects of OpenSolaris and his kernel.
After the lunch with Philip Russel. Some ambassadors are invited to listen a small talk about javaDB and PostgreSQL, it's very interesting. In this day yet Rafael Tinoco, Silveira Neto and Lucas Torri done our talks in the event. Unfortunately I just saw the talk of Rafel Tinoco (sorry guys).
And the event over
Posted at 12:00AM Abr 19, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
fisl #2
In the second day of fisl the OpenSolaris User's Group stand be full again. Everybody wants the gifts of Sun and the OpenSolaris starter kits, it's very cool.
We organized a kind of quiz for the people give the gifts of Sun and the User Group. The winner was annunciated at 6:00pm every day. The result was the best a lot of people meeting on our stand all day to know the winner of day.
On the second day too Rafael Vanoni done his talk about OpenSolaris testing
Posted at 12:00AM Abr 18, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
fisl #1
Today start the Open Source International Forum, called fisl. About 7414 people are registered to come to Porto Alegre and saw tech-talks, users group, sponsors and so on...
The Porto Alegre OpenSolaris Users Grouphas a stand near the Sun. We are distributed the OpenSolaris starter kits, gifts of Sun, and explain the System to the newbies.
Posted at 12:00AM Abr 17, 2008 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]
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