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       1. March 2008

April 2007 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter

Quotes of the Month

News Summaries

• Glynn Foster's weekly news updates:  April 1st,  April 10th,  April 16th, April 23rd.
• Eric Boutilier's mail list activity reports:  full archive on del.icio.us.

Web Forum Conversations

April was a big month for traffic to the 190 OpenSolaris Jive discussion forums (access forums here or here):

• Total Views: 2,102,058 (new record)
• Unique Visitors: 1,923,390 (new record)
• Total Threads: 2,051
• Total Messages: 8,155

For more data on the OpenSolaris Community, see the community metrics page in the Marketing Community.

User Groups

There were about ten user group meetings in April. Below are a few highlights:

• The Irish OpenSolaris User Group held their either meeting on April 4th. Roch Bourbonnais, an expert on kernel performance gave a talk on ZFS Performance. On April 16th, a ninth meeting was held. Eoin Hughes and Alberto Ruiz presented OpenSolaris for GNU/Linux Users.
• The Beijing OpenSolaris User Group met on April 20 for a discussion of the Java Desktop System.
• The Front Range OpenSolaris User Group met on April 24th, 2007. Dave McLoughlin presented Open Source Management.  In addition, there was an OpenSolaris Update and an InstallFest.
• The Silicon Valley User Group held a meeting on April 26th. Brendan Gregg presented a DTrace Intro and Update -- including the latest on DTrace, the DTraceToolkit, the new DTrace Topics project on Solaris Internals, some cool DTrace demos, and how to be a DTrace Jedi!
  
• The Japanese OpenSolaris Community ran a Solaris Night Seminar on April 26th.
  

Conferences

OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days in St. Petersburg, Russia was held on April 11th. OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days, Sao Paulo, Brazil was held on April 17th. Presentations and schedules are posted on opensolaris.org.

New Projects and Communities

New development projects continue to be proposed and opened on OpenSolaris in April

  6 Projects Opened

• Ports Collection
• Shell
• SMF documentation
• Tadpole Platform Support
• Busybox 
• Input Method

  9 Projects Proposed 

• Input Method
• CPK Cryptosystem
• busybox-ksh93
• Tadpole Platform Support
• Tesla
• Open Fabrics User Verbs
• IPoIB
• SAM-QFS
• Sensor Abstraction

Currently, there are more than 87 projects on OpenSolaris with another 30 in the planning stages.

Technical Status

Contributions to Consolidation Code

• There were 3 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in April, bringing the total to 155.
• Thanks to Garrett D'Amore, Roland Mainz and David Simonson for ON bug fixes. And thanks to the ON Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Garrett D'Amore, Mike Kupfer and Mark Musante.
  
• You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

Technical Status: New Components

• The Documentation consolidation published source for two more books on Apr 12th (see the docs download page for detail):
• System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) 
• System Administration Guide: Network Services
  

Technical Status: Website

• New OpenGrok with project support deployed 4/6/07.

Technical Status: SCM Work: Mercurial

• Mercurial support on the website is out of beta.

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April's Newsletter Contributors

Editor: Linda Bernal
Contributors: Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio, Linda Bernal
How to Contribute: The OpenSolaris Newsletter is a community effort, and all community members are welcome to participate. Simply send news items to program-team mail list. The editor will keep track of contributions and list the names of participants in each issue. Also, the editorial team is always looking for feedback on the content and format of the newsletter, so please feel free to suggest changes.