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       1. March 2008

Quote of the Month

• "Solaris ought to become as important and disciplined a force in the open-source community as folks like Red Hat and SuSE have been -- and, arguably, even more so." -- /Serdar Yegulalp, InformationWeek, What Sun's OpenSolaris Means For Open Source
  http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202802683

User Groups:

• The NEOSUG (New England OpenSolaris User Group) held their fourth meeting on November 1st.  Topics of disscusison included Project Indiana and Solaris 8 Migration Assistant.
  
• On November 8th in cooperation with the Berlin German User Group there was an OpenSolaris Evening in Berlin. (Two lectures in German language).
• The ALAMOSUG (San Antonio OpenSolaris User Group) met on Wednesday November 14th, Doug Strickland presented NIS to LDAP Migration.
  
• The DFWOSUG (Dallas /Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday November 15th.  Al Hopper presented ZFS and Containers (Part 2)
• The STLOSUG (St. Louis OpenSolaris User Group) met on Tuesday November 20th, Dale Somer presented RBAC.
  
• The MSOSUG (Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on Wednesday November 21st.  Boyd Adamson and Andre van Eyssen presented Using ZFS in Anger, Andre also presented SSGD for the masses.
• The IE-OSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) held their 16th meeting on Tuesday November 27th.  Michal Pryc gave a talk on the Image Packaging System[1] - a new package management system for OpenSolaris that will ease the pain of package installation and upgrade.
• The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday, November 29th 2007. Charles Baker gave a presentation on "An Introduction to Developing in OpenSolaris".
• The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on Thursday, November 29, 2007.  John Weeks, presented Multilevel Web Services which utilize Trusted Extensions on OpenSolaris.

Conferences:

• The date and venue for the second annual OpenSolaris Developer Conference http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-November/001686.html was announced, and the event will be held in Prague in June 2008. OSDevCon is the first and only OpenSolaris developer conference to come directly from the community. The 2007 OSDevCon http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/osdevcon2007/index.html was held in Germany.
• On November 6th, 150 attendees participated at OpenSolaris Day in Tokyo http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/events/current_tech_days/tokyo/, where SuHwan Jeong won the Ultra20 system. Photos here http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/opensolaris_day_tokyo. Also, on November 3th, 180 attendees participated in OpenSolaris Day in Beijing http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/events/current_tech_days/beijing/, where Baojian Chang won the Ultra20. Photos here http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/opensolaris_day_beijing.
  

Technical Status:

Website

• A new version of the authentication application module was released on November 12th.  New in this version: the ability to assign membership of projects and communities to members.

Contributions to consolidation code:

• There was 2 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in November bringing the total to 198.
• Thanks to Juergen Keil for the bug fixes.  And thanks to Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through putback:  Mark Johnson and Tim Haley.
• You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report

New Projects:

5 new projects

Automatic Data Migration
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/adm

Direct Rendering Infrastructure & 3D drivers
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/dri

Link Layer Discovery
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/lld

Media Management System
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/mms

Nightingale: Port Songbird to OpenSolaris
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nightingale






November's Newsletter Conrtibutor's
Contributors: Linda Bernal, Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio.
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