Oh, +1 from me too. Sorry! I figured this was a shoo-in and did not bother to add my vote.
Venky. On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 02:15:21PM +0900, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > Anyone else willing to give this a +1? We have a process that requires > at least two votes of support. > > Jim > > > Nathan Kroenert wrote: > > thanks for the quick reply. :) > > > > See inline. > > > > Jim Grisanzio wrote: > >> hi ... thanks for the proposal. +1 from me. Some comments below ... > >> > >> Nathan Kroenert - Server ESG wrote: > >>> Proposal for Melbourne Solaris and OpenSolaris User Group Project > >>> (MSOSUG) > >> > >> For the purposes of this project on this site within this community > >> group, I'd just call it "OpenSolaris" .... It's much simpler that way, > >> and as a practical matter, it doesn't matter that the topics overlap > >> between Solaris (the product) and OpenSolaris (the code and community, > >> etc). > > > > the only real reason we went for MSOSUG in the first place was > > disambiguation. There were already a number of MOSUGS. :) > > > > We are not at all wedded to the "Solaris and" part of the name, but we > > did have a lot of the folks ask about 'the real solaris' when we first > > talked about getting the group together... (There were concerns, based > > purely on the proposed name of MSOSUG that we might only talk about > > OpenSolaris... I guess now that we have met for the first time, it's > > somewhat less important. :) > > > >>> Purpose: To drive awareness and adoption of Solaris and OpenSolaris in > >>> the Melbourne region of Australia. > >>> > >>> List of Community Groups Sponsoring the project: > >>> Advocacy Community Group > >>> > >>> List of project team members: > >>> Nathan Kroenert(O.S. id: nathank), primary contact > >>> Boyd Adamson (O.S. id: boyd) > >>> > >>> Project Description: The purpose of this project is to drive both > >>> Solaris and OpenSolaris awareness amongst all Solaris users and > >>> potential users in the community in this area. > >>> > >>> The desire is to increase OpenSolaris adoption wherever it is a good > >>> fit, and encourage users to become more familiar and active with > >>> OpenSolaris. It is hoped that the group would ultimately contribute > >>> documentation and small code changes back to the community, though at > >>> this point, as the group is as young as it is, that may take some time! > >>> > >>> The project will archive its contributions including presentations, and > >>> other material to the project space on the OpenSolaris site. > >>> > >>> Project Needs: This project requires project space on OpenSolaris.org > >>> site. The project also requires a mailing list. Suggested list name is > >>> ug-msosug at opensolaris dot org. (Or even just msosug at opensolaris > >>> dot org. :) > >> Our naming convention for lists is "ug-" so we should stick to that. But > >> your url can be http://opensolaris.org/os/project/msosug/ > >> > > > > That works for us. :) > > > >>> Related Projects: At this stage, as the user group has only recently > >>> formed (we have had only one meeting) at this point, we believe it's > >>> best to push mostly for adoption and understanding first, then strive > >>> for active community participation. > >>> > >>> Related past activities: Our first meeting, which was on the 12th of > >>> September had 42 attendees including presenters. The presentations were > >>> for Live Upgrade and the Niagara 2 CPU overview. Next month's > >>> presentations are to be ZFS and Solaris 10 Update 4 new features. > >> Very cool that you already met. I think I saw some blogs on this > >> meeting. :) > > > > No doubt about how long overtime I went! ;) > > > >>> As already indicated, the group is young and there is a lot of core > >>> Solaris learning that will need to take place for much of the group, so > >>> we envisage that the first 6 months or so will be interchangeably > >>> Solaris / OpenSolaris. :) > >>> > >>> Topics planned for the upcoming meetings (As captured at the first > >>> meeting, and ordered by in-meeting vote: > >>> zfs > >>> S10 U4 + Ip Instances > >>> Resource controls and zones > >>> X86: xen / virtualization > >>> SPARC: Ldoms > >>> Solaris / Opensolaris performance management / observation > >>> Differences and management of co-residnt S10 and SX / OpenSolaris > >>> Solaris migration / etude > >>> Commodity Hardware and OpenSolaris > >>> Indiana > >>> Feature interaction / conflicting functionality. eg: zones root + zfs. > >>> > >>> We trust you will consider our group worthy of a User Group and look > >>> forward to being part of the community. :) > >>> > >>> Cheers! > >>> > >>> Nathan and Boyd. > >> > >> Cool. Let's see if anyone else has any questions or comments. We like to > >> have at least 2 or more "+1s" for each group, so I'm sure you'll not > >> have a problem. I'll be out of the office for a couple of days, so I'll > >> check back in on Friday. > > > > Looking forward to hearing from you all. > > > > Cheers! > > > > Nathan. > > > >> Jim > >> -- > >> Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris > > _______________________________________________ > > advocacy-discuss mailing list > > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > > > -- > Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss
