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Domingo Abr 26, 2009

flisol Porto Alegre

Yesterday happened at Sindicato dos Bancários the Porto Alegre edition of flisol 2009.

About the event...
Our event start 10:00am and finish around 6:30pm. During this time we talked about ubunt, OpenSolaris, Java, debian, PostgreSQL and a session of Q&A about open source. Also we has another room that running in parallel a big install fest with this softwares and operating system and much more! Angel Camacho from Sun came to Porto Alegre just to attend our event and talk about OpenSolaris. Also, Angel help us a lot in the install fest.

The evet's web-site will be remain on the web, maybe for flisol'2010 and your URL it's http://flisol.opensolaris.org.br The official flisol's site it's http://flisol.net. I posted some pictures on my flickr, available here

I'm really don't know for how long time I was involved in event's organization with Felipe Santos from asl.org, but when I note that everything are running (wifi, rooms, install fest, tech-talks). I can note that I was a little be tired
The best part of organized an event it's when everything are done and following what you planed. The worst it's they finish so early. But when everything are finished and organized. I went to a churrascaria with Angel, Ronaldo, Felipe, Oscar and Thomé (the guys that help us during the event) to celebrate this day.

Posted at 12:00AM Abr 26, 2009 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]

Sexta-feira Abr 17, 2009

A huge mistake...

A huge mistake was done this Friday, April 17. A judge condemned Redrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde e Carl Lundstroem to 1 year in jail AND to pay around $3.6 million.

Now you thing "but what crime they done? They killed someone?" No, they simple launch a web site where people can share your torrents file. They called Pirate Bay.
For a long time I thing this is an file server with copyright content, and I confess that I did some downloads there But when the process give space on the news I understand that Pirate Bay dosen't store anything!!! And this is the wrong idea that a lot of people has about this site. For understand your purpose just read the legal section and about section. Then asking again "what crime the done?"

Ok the entertainment's industry won this match, congratulations... Now a little common sense to know what would happen today. From one side 4 guys that create a web site, another side the movie and music industry with your money.

By the way... the official news I read here

Posted at 02:59PM Abr 17, 2009 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[1]

Quinta-feira Abr 16, 2009

Apps of Steel Challenge

Today I give an good notice... At Gary's blog there are a news said we has a new challenge opened
This time the challenged was specially for OpenSolaris. The task is, port an package to OpenSolaris and submit. But it's not any package, your package need use one (or more), features of OpenSolaris like ZFS, DTrace and so on...
Sounds good? Simple? Ok, let's move! The deadline is May 8 at 12:00PDT.

Oh the prizes... Well the Winners give a Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptop totaly free!!!
More information available at challenge's site

It's a great chance for community help in development of new OpenSolaris. And it's a good opportunity for who want understand how packing something, and helping in development.

Posted at 11:54PM Abr 16, 2009 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]

Segunda-feira Abr 13, 2009

flisol at Porto Alegre

Today was officially launch the Porto Alegre flisol's site, http://flisol.opensolaris.org.br
flisol is an international event that happen in all latin america since 2005. The core organization define the date and the local community (like debian, OpenSolaris, java, python, php), organize an flisol edition in your own city. This year the flisol's date is April 25. And here in Porto Alegre will happen in a place called (in portuguese) Sindicato dos Bancários. It's the same place that was happened the OpenSolaris Day 2008

About the event...
From 10:00am to 6:00pm will occur tech-talks done by community guys. It's already confirmed that Angel Camacho from Sun USA come to Porto Alegre talk in our event
Parallel the talks will happen an big install fest. We are planning install OpenSolaris, java, debian, ubuntu, MySQL and all open source software that the users need.

Registration for flisol is totaly free and it's available here

Posted at 12:00AM Abr 13, 2009 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]

Terça-feira Abr 07, 2009

New quizz at osum

During last week I give an idea to improve osum numbers. I ask my self "why I'm entry in a another social network?" and the answer was "well I need a good reason". Ok at osum you give a good reason, stay in touch with a lot technology guys, sun's engineer and with your friends. But another good reason is because I create 2 quiz. At UFRGS Group I started new discussion for participants create an short phrase including the words Sun, Open Source and the UFRGS (the university name). Everybody that write something with this 3 words are in the quiz. The winner will give a Sun's backpack. At Brazilian OpenSolaris Group I done almost the same thing. But the candidates need to write an phrase including the words Sun, Open Source, OpenSolaris. The winner will give a new Solaris Internals Edition that Eduardo has.

After one week... a lot of candidates with his phrase. It was time to choose the winners. I found in the web the random.org and insert the participant's ID. The site choose the winner for me

And the winners are:

Fabio Prochnow from UFRGS, he give the backpack

Willian Bonifacio he live at Rio de Janeiro (Eduardo send his book by mail)

The UFRGS Group grow up with that initiative. Now we are in 79 members, almost target

This is Fabio, the backpack's winner

Posted at 12:00AM Abr 07, 2009 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]

Segunda-feira Abr 06, 2009

GeJun's meeting

Last Saturday happened at unisinos another GeJun's meeting. If you don't know what means that, I'm explain.. GeJun is an study group focus on Java's technology. Every Saturday around 20 students went to his university to talk, learn and discuss about Java. During the week everybody post his doubt at osum forums. Me and Ronaldo Prass try to help his studies using the Jedi's project.
Some results start happened, we can observe that some students has facility to develop in Java in another hand some asking about frameworks and open source projects.

Every meeting we try to distribute some give aways for the best questions. And during the week we note that some students published some piece of code trying to explain topic learned last week, or simple share his discovery. And for those guys we trying give an t-shirt for recognition his skills and his initiative to share something. Well during last week Francine published at osum an very nice Java class to explain to her classmate how use Java.Util.Scanner (here is the post). And for this work we give an t-shirt for her, congratulations.

Ronaldo and Francine

Posted at 12:44AM Abr 06, 2009 by Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi in Sun | Comments[0]