I hope to check out three community events in Tokyo in the next week or so: - 7/10: OpenSolaris User Group: ZFS and OpenSolaris Security - 7/11: Tokyo Linux User Group: Network Security and ZFS - ...
The guys in the Venezuela OpenSolaris User Group came up with a pretty cool logo ... I like the one from the Chile OpenSolaris User Group too ... And there are many more, of course. See all the ...
Ashwin Bhat and Angad Singh asked me for one minute of my time outside the keynote hall at CommunityOne a few weeks ago. Hey, what's a minute, right? Happy to. But this minute was to be digitally ...
I've been checking out the Tokyo Hackerspace gmail list for a few weeks. Looks very interesting. The project grew out of some discussions at BarCamp Tokyo a couple of months ago, and I spoke to ...
Four members of the Japan OpenSolaris Community wrote a book on ZFS recently. It`s coming out in July, and it`s specifically for the Japanese market. The cover has not been selected yet, but here are ...
The Japan OpenSolaris Community together on Saturday. Nice day (and night). About 60 people came by for the three sessions, two of which were in Japanese and the third in English. Then all three ...
It's excellent to see the 9th Annual Linux Kernel Summit and the 1st Annual Japan Linux Symposium coming to Tokyo in October. Check out this language from the LF website: "The Japan Linux Symposium ...
Nothing like going right to the very top, eh? My goodness. Here's the OpenSolaris community in Brazil at FISL hanging out with Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva . I think this sets a new ...
I love these six videos of street photographers walking around shooting images in New York City . My fav is Sandra, who said, "Wow, this is what a father looks like when no one`s looking." She ...
A Workers’ Paradise Found Off Japan’s Coast : “Mr. Fujimoto said he would resign immediately if a serious rival appeared in an election. `That would be a sign the village has lost confidence in me,` ...
Communicating is all about building relationships, and that`s always a two way street (or if you are in the community business, a multi-way street). Every wonder what a rapid fire relationship with ...
When I was in San Francisco a few weeks ago, I picked The 48 Laws of Power and The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene . If you love history and the study of how things really get done, check these ...
I love this. An excavating contractor has five or six heavy backhoes on this site ripping apart an old concrete building. And they are painted a lovely shade of pink with white polka dots. How`s that ...
I went to the Tokyo launch of OpenSolaris 2009.06 at Sun's office in Jingumae earlier tonight. Good turn out of about 100 people. The lineup: Introduction, Akira Ohsone; OpenSolaris 2009.06, Shunsuke ...
As part of the new schedule for the website transition , there are two important deadlines to get collective infrastructure (Communities, Projects, User Groups) on opensolaris.org: June 30th: Hidden ...
The first beta release of VirtualBox 3.0 is now available. You can download the binaries at http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.0_BETA1/ Version 3.0 will be a major update. The following ...
I drafted a new document to answer questions about collective life cycle issues on opensolaris.org -- Website Infrastructure: Collective Life Cycle Instructions . The document lives in the Website ...
Here are some images from Tokyo CGM Night Episode 5 at KDDI Web Communications the other night. The event was hosted on by Danny Choo and Andrew Shuttleworth , of course, and it was nice to see a lot ...
The OpenSolaris community in Japan is planning its second multi-session user group meeting -- combining the Japan OSUG and the Tokyo OSUG . The meeting will be in Sun`s Yoga office ( directions with ...
Some of the work I've done recently involved some changes to virt-install(1) to teach it how to install xVM guests from OpenSolaris AI servers - work that you'll see going back soon as a patch to ...
We added some new OpenSolaris User Groups lately, so we are up to 148 now. Check the leaders grid for an OSUG near you. And if you are starting an OSUG in your area and want us to link to your ...
If you have an account on opensolairs.org (and there should be over 100k of you), then you should have received the email below sometime over the last couple of days. This mailing starts a series of ...
Unix is 40 and OpenSolaris is 4 . Happy birthday, OpenSolairs! Four years ago we opened the OS/Net consolidation source code (but six months before that we opened DTrace). Opening sequence here .
I've been thinking that it might be an interesting time to do a little kernel conference for OpenSolaris, Linux, and the BSDs right here in Tokyo. Get everyone together. See what happens. What the ...
This morning Bonnie posted two documents supporting the Phase 1 website transition plans : The plan to implement the governance and website roles and collectives, and The data migration strategy ...
We had to update Phase 1 of the website transition plan earlier this week. Phase 1 is being rescheduled to account for some community infrastructure requirements needed after CommunityOne and the ...