---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: S h i v <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:06 PM Subject: Participation in foss.in/2008 To: Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group <ug-bosug at opensolaris.org>
The CfP for foss.in has been out (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/foss-in/message/5325) and so is the registration for *speakers* and sessions termed *workouts* (http://foss.in/news/registration-opens.html) This mail is to to trigger a discussion to arrive at the scope of involvement for BeleniX/OpenSolaris/Bosug in foss.in I am putting down some ideas that have been in the pipeline to seed the discussion :) Below ideas are oriented towards foss workouts. Talks and Project of the Day are other ways to pitch in and needing ideas. 1. Extended partition support in grub : Extend the existing mount utilities to detect bootable extended partitions and make grub entries in the BeleniX installation. 2. NAS solution on top of ZFS technology : Some ground work is done in Pulsar OS to have a distro suited to be used for NAS. Good bit of work to provide user-interfaces / web gui is required to make it into a full-fledged NAS solution. Making the user interface non-geeky and usable for *any* user. 3. Crossbow : productizing the underlying technology into creating 3.1 a firewall 3.2 loadbalancer 3.3 network simulation within a box etc. This needs developing interfaces that are intuitive and work with the commands/libraries of the platform providing the necessry underlying technology required. Ex: having a ajax UI that allows creating a network topology and test drive it with a few drag drops and mouse clicks would be amazing. n. Add your ideas.... Inviting all to provide inputs on more ideas and expounding on these. Foss Workouts, Talks and Project of the Day, BOFs are the different spaces for us to take part in. Thoughts/comments welcome... cheers Shiv
