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       1. March 2008

August/September OpenSolaris Community Newsletter

Fun News:

• The OpenSolaris Community in India is participating in Sun's Code for
  Freedom Contest with the GlassFish, NetBeans, Apache Derby, and Open
  Portal communities. The contest is designed to increase participation in
  open source and encourage academic developers to contribute code.
  Contest info here: http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/codeforfreedom/

User Groups:

August

• The ATL-OSUG (Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group) had a meeting on August 14th, Scott Dickson presented "Dynamic Resource Pools in Nevada".
  
• The IE-OSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) got together on August 14th.  Nick Solter presented "Discovering Open High Availability Cluster".
  
• The SVOSUG (Silicon valley user group) met on Thursday, August 23.  Alan Coopersmith (OGB) and Stuart Kreitman from the X team, and Alan DuBoff conducted a presentation on the Desktop. 
  
• The CMH-OSUG (Columbus Ohio OpenSolaris User Group) had their 2nd inaugural meeting on August 30th.  The topic of discussion was "Installing Solaris Express Developer Edition."
  
• The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday, August 30th 2007. Sarah Jelinek gave a presentation on the New Solaris Installer (OpenSolaris Project Caiman).

September

• The ALAMOSUG (San Antonio OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on September 5th, to discuss OpenSolaris Futures (Nevada & Virtualization). 
• The NEOSUG (New England OpenSolaris User Group) met on September 11th, following the Sun Tech Days event.   
  
•  The MSOSUG (Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group) met on September 12th.  Boyd Adamson presented Live Upgrade and Nathan Kroenert presented The Niagara 2 CPU overview.
• The SOSUG (Sydney OpenSolaris User Group) met on September 21st.  Alan Hargreaves presented non-debug opensolaris, ZFS and BrandZ.   Brendan Gregg presented DTracing javascript in firefox. 
• The IOSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) gathered on September 25th, Liam Merwick, an engineer in Sun's SPARC Platform Software group gave a talk on LDoms .
  
• The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on September 27th.  Jim walker gave a presentation on OpenSolaris Testing. 
• The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) met on September 27th to discuss Kernel TCP/IP Evolution, ATS Tool.
  

Contributions to Consolidation Code:

• There was 5 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in August and 5 in Spetember bringing the total to 186.
  
• Thanks to Juergen Keil, Chad Mynhier, Madhav Chauhan, Pawel Dawidek, Alex Zakharov, and Roland Mainz for the bug fixes.  And thanks to Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through putback:  Ceclilia Hu (Intern)/Artem Kachitchkin (sponsor), Antonello Cruz (intern)/David Buston (sponsor), George Wilson, and April Chin, Dan McDonald and Frank Hofmann.
  
• You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report

Technical Components

New Componets:

• The Documentation Consolidation released source on August 3rd for:
• Solaris Express Developer Edition Release Notes
• Solaris Express Developer Edition What's New
• Solaris Express Package List
• The Documentation consolidation also released source on September 4th for:
• Solaris Express Developer Edition Installation Guide: Laptop Installations 
• Solaris Express Installation Guide: Network-Based Installations 
• Solaris Express Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning
• ON Test released source for the Shared Test Suite and Kerberos Test Tools (krb5tools) on September 21st.

Conferences

• OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days kicked off the world tour in Boston on September 11th.  You can view more details here.
  

August/September's Newsletter Conrtibutor's
Contributors: Linda Bernal, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio.
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