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       1. March 2008

May 2007 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter

Quote of the Month

News Summaries

• Glynn Foster's weekly news updates: May 9th.  
• Eric Boutilier's mail list activity reports: full archive on del.icio.us.

Web Forum Conversations

May was a record month for Jive discussion forum activity (access forums here or here). In total, we are at 17,292,484 total views, 13,684,182 unique visitors, 28,979 threads, and 115,990 messages on the Jive forums. Graphs here. There are now 203 OpenSolaris lists. The May Forum Numbers

• Total Views: 2,180,782 (new record)
• Unique Visitors: 2,006,412 (new record)
• Total Threads: 2,179 (new record)
• Total Messages: 9,603 (new record) 

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

User Groups

There were more than a dozen user group meetings in May. Below are a few highlights:

• The NLOSUG (Netherlands OpenSolaris User Group) met on May 3rd. Topics of discussion included: NLOSUG update and Solaris Network Virtualization with Crossbow. 
• The ATLOSUG (Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group) met on May 8th, where Ryan Matteson discussed iSCSI and OpenSolaris.
• The FLOSUG (Florida OpenSolaris User Group) met on May 14th in Ft. Lauderdale, May 15th in Tampa, and May 16th in Orlando. Bill Nelson presented on Identity Management.
• The LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on May 16th.  Jarod Nash, TSC Systems Engineer, presented ZFS: Under the Hood.
• The DFWOSUG (Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group) met on May 17th.  Jeff Savit, a Principal Engineer, gave a talk on Virtualizing Solaris. 
• The STLOSUG (St.Louis OpenSolaris User Group) met on May 22nd with Bob Netherton presenting Virtualizing Solaris: The Big Rules for Zones, Xen, LDOMs and VMware.
• The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) met on May 24th.  Ian Murdock, Chief Operating Platform Strategist for Sun, talked about Project Indiana. Ian was joined by newly elected OGB board member, Glynn Foster, Desktop Engineer working on the Java Desktop Systems for Sun.
• The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday, May 31, 2007.  Brad Lewis and Tim Jacobson presented on Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools. In addition, an OpenSolaris Update and Install Fest was held. 
• The IEOSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) held their 10th meeting on May 29th. Fintan Ryan presented on Service Management Facility (smf).

Conferences

• In early May, the OpenSolaris Community met in San Francisco for CommunityOne at Sun's JavaOne Conference. During this period, Project Indiana became known and started a media and community conversation that still continues.
  
• The community met at OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days Mexico City, Mexico on May 18th. Download presentations here.
• On May 31st, Grzegorz Rumatowski presented OpenSolaris at the Viennese Linux Weeks and began planning for the new Austrian OpenSolaris User Group.
• Also on May 31st, the SPOSUG (Spain OpenSolaris User Group) met at OpenSolaris Day in Madrid, Spain. See photos from David Galán.
• The OpenSolaris Community in Tokyo participated in Sun Japan's Business.Next Conference on May 23rd. There were a couple of thousand people there attending various events. OpenSolaris (presented by Akira Ohsone) was part of an all day community track, which included sessions on Java, Open Source, Ruby, NetBeans, Web 2.0, and PostgreSQL.
• At the end of May, community members from RUOSUG (Russia OpenSolaris User Group) participated at the LinuxTag Conference in Berlin (photos here, here, here on the LinuxTag site) for Sun Studio presentations and an installfest among other events. Also, community members from the GOSUG (German OpenSolaris User Group) and the German Unix User Group (photos) participated at the show. Sun's Martin Mann presented Nexenta in one of the sessions.

New Projects and Communities

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

  7 Projects Opened

• Open Fabrics User Verbs
• HoneyComb Fixed Content Storage 
• Sensor Abstraction Layer
• Tesla
• IP over Infiniband 
• Web Stack
• Programming Contest

  6 Projects Proposed

• Sensor Abstraction Layer for the Solaris Fault Manager
• FMA support for x86 Machine-Check Architecture
• Virtual Network Machines
• Programming Contest
• Emulex Fibre Channel Device Driver
• Project Indiana
  

Currently, there are more than 100 projects on OpenSolaris with another 30 in the planning stages.

Technical Status

Contributions to Consolidation Code

• There were 8 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris via the request-sponsor program in May, bringing the total to 165.
• Thanks to Jeremy Teo, Roland Mainz, River Tarnell, and Scott Heimer for bug fixes. Also thanks to Sun ON engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Peter Harvey, Alan Maguire, Carol Fields, Casper Dik, and Mike Kupfer.
• You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

New Components

• The Man Page Consolidation posted source on May 24th for the third set of 622 man pages.

Website

• New multilingual pages -- the sign in, registration, password reset, and profile update pages on opensolaris.org are now offered in Japanese and Chinese.
  
• Website Portals: The China Portal opened on May 23rd and Poland Portal opened on May 17th. Full portal project status here.
  

New Distribution Releases

• NexentaOS Alpha 7 was available for download on May 15th. Download
• BeleniX 0.6 was released on May 23rd. Download.
  

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May's Newsletter Contributors

Editor: Linda Bernal
Contributors: Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio, David Galan Ortiz, Alexander Gorshenev, Grzegorz Rumatowski, Wolfgang Stief, Dirk Wetter.
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.