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June/July 2007 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter

Quote of the Month

"The open sourcing of Solaris allows us to exist." -- Joyent CEO David Young

News Bits

News about OpenSolaris can be found on the community's announce list. Sign up to opensolaris-announce here. Also, news about OpenSolaris can be found on the community's News page. Below are additions news items:
  • Conversations Data: For 26 months, the 218 OpenSolaris lists/forums have generated 22,364,780 web views, 18,425,546 million unique visitors, 32,851 discussion threads, and 131,136 messages. Monthly graphs here.
  • Community News: The OpenSolaris news page on opensolaris.org is now maintained by the Advocacy Community Group by the Advocacy Community Group by Terri Molini, Joe G, and Bob Wientzen. Post articles to news-discuss. You can find background on this issue on advocacy-discuss.
  • Advocacy News Maintainers are Terri Molini, Joe G, and Bob Wientzen, and they volunteered via an open discussion in the Advocacy CG. They will evolve the news page and any necessary processes in collaboration with the community.

User Group Projects

The OpenSolaris User Groups are migrating to project spaces as part of the creation of the Advocacy Community Group. For updates see Jim Grisanzio (here, here). Here are some items from individual user groups recently.

July
  • SOSUG (Sydney OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on  Monday July 9th.  Glynn Foster gave a talk on Project Indiana, a project that aims to create a new distribution of OpenSolaris that's more familiar to users of GNU/Linux.
  • IE-OSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) held their 12th meeting on July 12th.  Glynn Foster gave a talk on Project Indiana, a project that aims to create a new distribution of OpenSolaris that's more familiar to users of GNU/Linux.
  • LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) met on July 18th.  Peter Tribble, member of the OpenSolaris community will present a brief explanation of what Solaris kstats are & specifically what project JKstat is, followed by a demo of jkstat in action.  James MacFarlane, Solaris RPE Staff Engineer gave a step-by-step walk through of how to turn a system into an OpenSolaris build server and how to use it to make your own changes to the source code.
  • DFWOSUG (Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on July 19th.  Bob Netherton gave an overview of Solaris Developer Express.
  • FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday, July 26, 2007.  Nick Solter gave a presentation on Open High Availability Cluster, which was recently released on opensolaris.org. In addition, there was an OpenSolaris Update.
  • SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday, July 26. Eric Saxe presented "OpenSolaris scheduling and processor management."
June
  • The ALAMOSUG (San Antonio OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on June 6th to discuss the Sun blade modular systems launch. 
  • The CROSUG (Capital Region OpenSolaris User Group) was held at the conclusion of OpenSolaris Day on June 6th.
  • The ATLOSUG (Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group) met on June 12th.  Jeff Bounds gave a talk on "Using OpenSolaris and Solaris Express Developer Edition for Development".  Mike Sweeney will also talked about SXDE in general - what goes into it, release schedule, etc.
  • The STLOSUG (St. Louis OpenSolaris User Group) gathered on June 19th.  Jeff Logullo presented Partioning, Multi-bootign, and Solaris.
  •  The LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) met on June 20th to present "Solaris Troubleshooting –  The Unofficial Tourist Guide" as a topic of discussion. 
  • The SDOSUG (San Diego OpenSolaris User Group) held their second meeting on June 20th.  Scott  presented an overview of the Predictive Self Healing feature of OpenSolaris, also referred to as the Fault Management Architecture (FMA).
  • The DFWOSUG (Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group) met on June 21st.  The evening started with an install fest, followed by a Meet nad Greet session and ended with a presentation on "Virtualizing Soalris Series"
  • The HOSUG (Hyderabad OpenSolaris User Group) met on June 23rd. 
  • The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) gathered on Thursday, June 28. Bonnie Corwin  gave an OpenSolaris Engineering Update. In addition, we will be celebrating the 2-year OpenSolaris anniversary!

Conferences

  • O'Reilly Open Source Convention was held July 23rd -27th. See Barton George (here, here, here) and Adam Leventhal (here, here, here).
  • OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days Washington DC was held on June 6th. Download presentations here.

Technical

New Components
  • Globalization (G11N) released source code on July 5th for the Solaris Cluster Agents and is now available as part of the Open High Availability Cluster code base.
  • The Sharemgr test suite was released on July 20th.
  • The Man Page consolidation released source for fourth set of 306 man pages on June 21st.

Contributions to Consolidation Code

  • There was 1 code contribution put back into OpenSolaris in July, bringing the total to 170. Thanks to Juergen Keil for the bug fix. And thanks to the Sun engineer Lin Ling for sponsoring the code through to putback.
  • There was 1 code contribution put back into OpenSolaris in June. Thanks to Henry Grebler for the bug fix. And thanks to the Sun engineer Michael Hunter for sponsoring the code through to putback.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report


June/July's Newsletter Contributors

Contributors: Linda Bernal, Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio.
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.