The very first Open Solaris developer conference (www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/osdevcon2007) took place in Berlin Feb 27 - Mar 2 2007. I was really enjoy it, met lots of bright people from Germany itself, US, Ireland, India and even more.

I found that the interest to the "open" development in Germany is quite high. Well, I think that's because German people like clarity and 100% control over whatever they're using -- that's great and this makes "open" Unix systems very popular. As the result, "German Unix User Group" actually is quite large community, it includes contributors from the OpenSolaris and Linux worlds.

Here are the most interesting points, in my opinion, been presented on this conference. [Read More]