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October 2007 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter

User Groups

• The LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) met on October 17th.  Liam Merwick, an LDOMS developer gave an overview of the LDoms architecture and an update on developments since the release of LDoms 1.0.
  
• The MSOSUG (Melborne OpenSolaris User Group) met on October 17th.  Nathan Kroenert presented Solaris 10 Update 4 new features.
  
• The DFWOSUG (Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on October 18th, Nils Nieuwejaar presented Deploying Solaris 10 Containers and ZFS.
  
• The CZOSUG (Czech OpenSolaris User Group) held two meetings this month.  Bootcamp was held on October 20th.  The all-day BootCamp focused on application tuning and debugging on OpenSolaris.  The second meeing was held on October 23rd at Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics. An  "Introduction to OpenSolaris" presentation was given (slides are in Czech) followed by very nice demo of DTrace, ZFS and BrandZ delivered by Milan Jurik.
• The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) gathered on October 25th, Rich Reynolds gave a presentation on LDOMS.  Along with that people were on hand to help you install Solaris or any other Solaris issues.
• The IEOSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) held their 15th meeting on October 25th and had a Dtrace workshop. 
  
• The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) met on Thursday, October 25, 2007.  Dev Mazumdar of 4-Front Technologies spoke on the opensound integration into OpenSolaris.
• The JPOSUG (Japan OpenSolaris USer Group) presented Solaris Night Seminars in Tokyo. October's was the third in the series. Photos here: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/solaris_night_seminar_tokyo1

Conferences

• OpenSolaris Days: Shanghai and Beijing
  The OpenSolaris Community participated at Sun's Tech Days Conferences in Beijing and Shanghai in late October. For OpenSolaris Day, about 100 people turned out in Shanghai and 200 in Beijing. Presentations and speaker bios can be found here:
  http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/events/current_tech_days/shanghai/
  http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/events/current_tech_days/beijing/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimgris/sets/72157602720298520/
  

• University Day: Nanjing
  Sin-Yaw Wang, John Jiang, Liang Ye, and Jim Grisanzio presented various Java and OpenSolaris technologies to more than 400 students at Nanjing University in late October. The event was part of a comprehensive university tour sponsored by the Sun China engineering team that regularly engages thousands of students throughout China.
  Photos and additional info here:
  http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/opensolaris_university_world_tour_nanjing
  http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo/entry/acm_code_competition_run_by
  
• IEEE Conference.  Jim Grisanzio presented OpenSolaris at Aizu University in Japan in October at the IEEE Conference: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/opensolaris_at_ieee_at_aizu
• OpenSolaris Summit.  The weather was perfect as ninety OpenSolaris community members gathered in the beachside town of Santa Cruz, Calif. for the first OpenSolaris Developer Summit. Held October 13 & 14 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the two day summit was packed with information and conversation on Project Indiana and all things OpenSolaris. The food was great too. Be sure to join us this Spring for the second OpenSolaris Developer Summit. For Summit recaps:
• http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/opensolaris_summit_links
  
• http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/summit/
• http://cdrecord.berlios.de/OpenSolaris/devconf_2007/

• The Japan OpenSolaris Community participated in the Tokyo Open Source Conference in early October with presentations on globalization and an update on the key projects on OpenSolaris: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/opensolaris_at_tokyo_osc

Technical Status

Self-Service Testing availability

• The OpenSolaris Self-Service Testing application became available for use by OpenSolaris contributors on 10/18/07.  This application allows developers to run functional and performance tests on their code in a fully-automated fashion prior to integration into the OpenSolaris code base.  For more information see:
  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/selftest/
  The Self-Service Testing application can be accessed at:
  http://test.opensolaris.org/
• A code contribution from Jason King was putback to the ON consolidation on 10/6/07 that replaces the old SPARC disassembler code that could not be open sourced.  Thanks to Jason and his sponsor, James McPherson, and all the engineers involved for this great step towards having full open source.
  

SCM Update

• SCM Migration Project is progressing.  Due to personnel changes, work on the ON developer and gatekeeper tools is taking longer than expected.  Current target is integration of all the tools in Build 82 (January 2008).  After that integration, the SFW will be the first consolidation will transition its gate and move it to opensolaris.org, followed by the ON consolidation. You can participate in discussion and follow the project on scm-migration-dev@opensolaris.org.  Information about the project is at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/scm-migration/

Indiana

• Project Indiana made a developer preview available on 10/31/07 that includes "Slim Install" capabilities and new packaging software.  Information is available at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana.

Contributions to Consolidation Code

• There was 7 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in October bringing the total to 193.
• Thanks to Jason King, Roland Mainz, Mark Martin, Chad Mynhier, Cyril Plisko and Ramprakash Thinakaran for the bug fixes.  And thanks to Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through putback:  Renee Danson, Jon Haslam, Mike Kupfer, Dan McDonald, James McPherson, Peter Memishian and Liane Praza.
  
• You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report

New Projects

12 Projects Opened

• CIFS Server
• Cluster Agent: OpenSolaris xVM
• Coarse Data Flow Parallelism
• CPU Observability
• Fine Grained Access Policy (FGAP)
• Image Packaging System
• K Desktop Environment
• Kerberos
• Multi-pathing software
• SDcard Drivers
• Suspend/Resume
• Trademark and Branding

Also Noteworthy

• Oct 22nd, Ian Murdock -- Sun's Chief Operating Systems Platform Strategist gave a highly successful talk to the Linux developers in Shanghai. A total number of 637 Linux developers attended this exciting event. Each of them received a Solaris 10 Update 4 DVD (for x86/x64), an OpenSolaris DVD, and a Getting Started booklet for OpenSolaris.

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