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NOVEMBER 2006 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter

Overview

The OpenSolaris community participated in multiple global events in November and set new records for discussions back at home on opensolaris.org. New components were released, several new projects were proposed, and a new community and new project opened.

Quotes of the Month

"Sun’s Moinak Ghosh is famed in the community for Belenix, an open source project to compress the 1.8-gigabyte Sun Solaris operating system to fit onto a 700-megabyte compact disc." - Red Herring, 11/24/06

"This is my first open source project and my first experience with Unix. I'm happy with the outcome and encouraged by Moinak's support." - Anil Gulecha in the Times of India, 11/22/06

Community News

News Summaries

• Eric Boutilier's mail list activity reports: November 3rd, November 17th.
• Glynn Foster's weekly news updates: November 5th, November 12th, November 19th, November 27th.

Jive Discussion Forum Data

• November was another record month for conversations on the 160 OpenSolaris Jive discussion forums. Total Views: 959, 926 (a new record). Unique Visitors: 838,292 (a new record). Threads: 1,488. Messages: 5,708. The graphs for total views and unique visitors are most impressive when you look at all 18 months of OpenSolaris.

Projects & Communities

• 5  projects were opened in November: lofi compression & cryptography support; Language Portals; SCM Migration Project; Bluetooth Stack and Drivers; Wireless Wide Area Network
• 7 new projects were proposed in November: OpenSolaris Language Portals; Device Detection Tool; Multi-lingual Technology Glossary; Caiman (Solaris install); PCFS; Cryptographic Framework; and Bluetooth Stack and Drivers
• 2 new communities were opened in November:  Databases and HPC Developer
• 1 new community was proposed in November: Databases
• OpenSolaris now has 54 open projects with another 21 that are approved but not yet opened.

Conferences: Seoul, Prague, Bangalore

• The OpenSolaris World Tour stopped in Seoul and Prague in November, and hundreds of developers gathered for a variety of technical presentations and events. Sun gave away three Ultra 20s as well. For details of upcoming OpenSolaris Days, check the OpenSolaris events page.
• The OpenSolaris World Tour stopped in Seoul and Prague in November, and hundreds of developers gathered for a variety of technical presentations on OpenSolaris. For details of upcoming events, check the OpenSolaris events page.
• OpenSolaris participated in {link;FOSS.IN in Bangalore|http://foss.in/2006/info/Main_Page} in November, and the conference was a major success. For summaries, including lists of bloggers who were there, go here, here,here, and here.

Contributions to Consolidation Code

• There were four code contributions put back into OpenSolaris via the request-sponsor program in November, bringing the total to 136.
• Thanks to Peter Tribble, Garrett D'Amore, Richard Hamilton and Jean-Paul Degabriele for ON bug fixes. Also thanks to Sun ON engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Rich Brown, Carol Fields, Dan Groves, Craig Mohrman and Dan McDonald.
• You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

User Groups

• The Indonesia OpenSolaris User Group met on Nov 8th. For meeting deals, see the group's Google.
• The Moscow OpenSolaris User Group (MOSUG) met on Nov 9th for a session on DTrace.
• The Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group (ATLOSUG) met on Nov 11th in Alpharetta, Georgia to talk about open source projects related to OpenSolaris.
• The Czech OpenSolaris User Group (CZOSUG) participated in the Sun Tech Days OpenSolaris Day event on Nov 14th in Prague.
• The London OpenSolaris User Group met on November 15th. Gavin Maltby gave a presentation on Fault Management Architecture (FMA).
• The Front Range User Group (FROSUG) met on November 28th. Susan Kamm-Worrell and Tony Nguyen talked about the Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF). In addition to the SMF presentation, Jon Bowman gave an "OpenSolaris Update" - a short presentation about the latest happenings in OpenSolaris.
• The Silicon Valley User Group (SVOSUG) held a meeting on November 30th. A Power Management presentation was given by David Brown and Randy Fishell.
• The Argentina OpenSolaris User Group met on Nov 30 at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aries. Meeting details and photos are all at the AOSUG page. This is the first meeting of the AOSUG, which was created recently by Hernan Saltiel.

Distributions

•  BeleniX 0.5.1 was available for download on Nov 25th.
• Links to all OpenSolaris distributions here.

Sun Contributor Agreement

• A new version (1.3) of the Sun Contributor Agreement was made available on November 9th. This version includes two small changes:

• Separate line items for "Full Name" and "Company Name"
• Separate line to print the name of the person signing the agreement.

• These changes are to make it more straightforward for companies to submit SCAs. A company can list contributors in the "Full Name" section; if that section is left blank, all employees of the company can contribute. The line to print the name of the person who signs the agreement is, of course, redundant in the case of an individual contributor. But when a company signs, this will be the name of the executive who signs (since the "Full Name" section will list contributors or be blank).
• And there is now an SCA FAQ available.

Technical Status

New Components

• The Documentation consolidation released source for four more books on November 30th. See the Docs download page for detail.

• Solaris Express Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations
• Solaris Express Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade
• Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual
• System Administration Guide: Security Services

SCM Work: Subversion

• The Live Companion CD repository became available on October 31st.

SCM Work: General

• The  SCM Migration Project was opened and information added about tools and planned work. In addition, source for additional tools was posted on November 29th.
• Join the discussion on tools-discuss if you are interested and would like to help out.

Website

• Improvements to bugs.opensolaris.org went live on November 27th.

Also Noteworthy

• There are many new OpenSolaris participants for Sun's Campus Ambassador program in China. See Joey Guo for the latest information and photos.

October's Newsletter Contributors

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