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June 2006 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter

Overview

June was a month of records and celebration for the OpenSolaris community. The community celebrated its one year anniversary on June 14th and broke new records for conversations and code contributions. But perhaps even more important for our future growth, significant progress has been made with OpenSolaris outreach at universities in China and India. So, the community continues to grow on multiple levels and enters its second year full of promise.

Quotes of the Month

We collect OpenSolaris quotes on del.icio.us. Here are a couple of nice ones recently:

• The project has -- in my view anyway -- been extremely successful in keeping to the original Solaris ethos while developing a strong OpenSolaris community. -- Peter Tribble in ZDNet, June 13, 2006

• Sun's OpenSolaris based CDDL is growing like a wildfire in a high wind in part because it's a safe haven for those looking to hedge their bets. -- Paul Murphy, ZDNet, June 21, 2006

Community Status

The First OpenSolaris Anniversary

• On June 14th, the OpenSolaris community celebrated its first anniversary and a year of remarkable achievements. Community blogs and press coverage of the anniversary can be found here.

Jive Discussion Forums

• June brought some records for conversations on the 118 OpenSolaris Jive discussion forums. Weeks 53 and 54 were most significant and demonstrate an increased level of activity around the community's first anniversary. The totals now top 4.3 million for total views and 2.4 million for unique visitors. Additional community metrics can be found here.

Projects & Communities

• Two projects were opened this month: NTP and Enhanced SMF Profiles.
• Seven new projects were proposed this month: CIFS Client; Modernize Syslogd; Non-root Install; IPsec Tunnel Reform; Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP); JDS Single Administration; and Myricom 10GE Driver.
• OpenSolaris now has 31 open projects with another 12 that are approved but not yet opened.

OpenSolaris in Education: An Overview from the East

University Days in China

Sun has sponsored University Days on campus at several colleges and universities to spread the word about Sun technology, including OpenSolaris. In the past few months, events were held at Neusoft Institute of Information, Beijing Jiaotong University, Renmin University, Xi'An Institute of Technology, Xi'An University of Electronics Science and Technology, Xi'An Jiaotong University, China Petroleum University and Capital Normal University in China. These events were attended by more than 3,000 students, faculty and researchers. Check out Sin-Yaw Wang's blog for more information.

OpenSolaris Starter Kit

The Starter Kit project has finally taken off and is moving along nicely. This kit is designed for students and anyone else who is new to OpenSolaris. It will be released in phases, with the first phase being published in late July. You can find more info here and here.

Curriculum Materials

Plug-in materials for an introductory operating systems course have been developed by a group of computer science professors in China. These modules allow a professor to pick and choose which concepts they would like to teach using OpenSolaris as an example. Train-the-professor sessions were held in 6 cities throughout China to assist professors in using these materials. To further expand the reach of the materials, they have been donated to the China Ministry of Education. The materials will be posted for everyone's use very soon here.

India Outreach

In India, Solaris engineers are building strong relationships with several universities to expose students to OpenSolaris and open source technologies.

• A Tech Fest was held at RVCE. More than 200 students participated in the 'Kill Bill' programming contest based on OpenSolaris.
• A Tech Day was held at PESIT, a local university in Bangalore. Students there have chosen to participate in a special Sun track where they will learn about and participate in the OpenSolaris community among others. By participating in the Sun track, students will have insight into internship and job opportunities at Sun.
• Fifteen 90 minute lectures were aired via satellite to more than 100 engineering colleges in the State of Karnataka via the VTU Education Satellite program. Each session had an average attendance of approximately 1500 engineering students.
  

Conferences

• Dave Nelson spoke about using OpenSolaris in operating system courses at the 20th Annual Colorado Technology in Education conference on June 21st.
• Fintan Ryan, Nicky Veitch, and Tim Foster attended ApacheCon Europe in Dublin June 26-28th. You can read about the goings on in Fintan's blog. They took advantage of the gathering at ApacheCon to hold an Irish OpenSolaris User Group Meeting.
• Simon Phipps, Jon Haslam, and Patrick Finch will be at LUGRadio Live in Wolverhampton, UK July 22 - 24th. You can find out more about LUGRadio Live here.
• OSCON is coming up at the end of next month, July 24 - 28. If you plan to be up in Portland, please come by the Sun booth. OpenSolaris will be there in force. There will be two BoFs: "OpenSolaris Virtualization" and "Consolidating Servers with OpenSolaris, ZFS and Zones". Plus there will be plenty of engineers in the booth talking about our community and our code. Come join us.

Contributions to Consolidation Code

• June set a record for contributions. There were 21 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris via the request-sponsor program in June, bringing the total to 106.
• Thanks to Rainer Orth, Richard Lowe, Peter Tribble, Stephen Potter, Yann Poupet, Jeremy Teo and Juergen Keil for ON bug fixes. Also thanks to Sun ON engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Sarah Jelinek, Eric Lowe, Jim Carlson, Liane Praza, Craig Mohrman, Carol Fields, April Chin, Eric Saxe, Krishna Yenduri and Alan Perry.
• You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

User Groups

• The  Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group (ATLOSUG) met on June 13th. George Wilson gave a ZFS update, and Scott Dickinson presented ZFS and Zones integration.
• The Irish OpenSolaris User Group met on June 14th to hear a ZFS "fly-through" and an overview of OpenSolaris' first year.
• The  Silicon Valley User group (SVOSUG) met in Santa Clara on Thu, June 22nd. Josh Berkus spoke on the Postgres database and how it relates to Solaris/OpenSolaris.
• The Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group (BOSUG) held a meeting on June 24th to discuss "Creating an OpenSolaris Distribution."
• The Front Range OpenSolaris User Group (FROSUG) in Colorado held a meeting on June 27th. An "Installfest" was held to help people install Solaris and OpenSolaris builds. Sanjay Nadkarni did a presentation about "The Future of Install in OpenSolaris."

Distributions

• NexentaOS (elatte) Alpha 5 became available for download on June 14th.

Technical Status

New Components

• The DevPro consolidation released source for medialib on June 12th. This library is a collection of C functions that support multimedia processing.
• The Docs consolidation released source for two more books on June 30th: OpenSolaris Developer's Reference Guide and Solaris Containers: Resource Management and Solaris Zones Developer's Guide. See the Docs download page for details.

SCM Work

• Milestones for SCM work were updated.
• Work on Subversion (SVN) support on the site is progressing: host support and web app support for managing repositories. Beta testing by the Companion CD and JDS teams will begin next month.

Also Noteworthy

• Glynn Foster's weekly news updates: June 6, June 11, June 20, June 26.
• Eric Boutilier's mail list roll up reports for June are here and here.
• The OpenSolaris project was a runner up in The ServerWatch Product Awards: All About Innovation on June 6th.
• The CAB/OGB's term has been extended for a couple of months so board members can finish drafting the constitution, get the document ratified, and hold elections.

June's Newsletter Contributors

Editor: Linda Bernal
Contributors: Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Teresa Giacomini, 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 or the opensolaris-discuss mail list. The editor will keep track of contributions and list the names of participants in each issue. Also, the editorial team is looking for feedback on the content and format of the newsletter, so please feel free to suggest changes.