I'm more than happy to share my materials with whole Community, but it is written on Serbian language which belongs to Slavic branch of languages with Cyrillic alphabet.
I do not know how much useful it'd be. Uros ---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:53:04 -0700 > From: Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM > Subject: Re: OpenSolaris Summer School Report > To: urosn at live.com > CC: advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org; Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM > > Congrats on the completion of your first summer school! It would be > great if you would share your materials with the Academic and Research > community so other folks could conduct similar courses. > > T > > On 07/31/09 02:18 PM, Uros Nedic wrote: >> OpenSolaris Summer School Report >> -------------------------------- >> >> >> Technical details >> ----------------- >> Location: Belgrade, Serbia >> Duration: 8th Meetings, 4 hours each >> Time : July, 2009 >> >> >> Executive Summary >> ----------------- >> >> Idea for organizing Summer School dedicated to OpenSolaris and >> surrounding technologies came from my CommunityOne and Java One >> conferences attendance. I learned how important is to have community >> and what is their potential. Final result is greater then I expected >> since we created one well connected group of people and many new >> ideas have been born. >> >> On technical side, OpenSolaris attracted many developers and smaller >> amount of system administrators since it has been organized at >> our main supercomputing center. Many developers saw potential of >> OpenSolaris and technologies like COMSTAR, Crossbow, IPsec, Clearview, >> Weak Membership, etc., and learned how to start using it. Of course >> DTrace and ZFS was technologies that surprised all attendants. >> >> >> Suggestions for future events >> ----------------------------- >> >> Each meeting brought more attendants than previous. Having this >> in mind speaker has to be always prepared for quick explanation of >> some topics he already did on previous meeting. It is good that >> for each meeting speaker prepare some overview of past topics. >> Also, it is important to give the attendants motivation to come >> in the future. It could be done by explaining what was rationale >> for developing some technology and how it fits in 'wider area'. >> I organized my school towards final topic called 'Cloud' and >> explained to attendants motivation for cloud from economic and >> technology perspective, as well. 'Cloud as a solution to >> current state in IT business' was my main slogan. >> >> I have some developers who were interested in HPC area. Also I >> dedicated to them some of my Session to explain what SUN as a >> software and hardware vendor could offer. Also I tried to explain >> how OpenSolaris fits in High Performance Computing market. DTrace >> was one of the flagship technologies they were interested among >> with SunOS architecture. >> >> >> Conclusion >> ---------- >> >> My final conclusion is that Summer School was successful project >> which brought new members to community and made community stronger >> and much more connected. I will try to make such even each year >> in the future. >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Share your memories online with anyone you want. >> http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/products/photos-share.aspx?tab=1 >> > _________________________________________________________________ Drag n? drop?Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live? Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx
