This is a fantastic start. 35 is not a small number. BOSUG rulez! Regards, Moinak.
S h i v wrote: > Hi All, > > Here is a quick update, the event happened as planned and it was fun ! > > What we came out with : 35 specs for softwares listed at > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/bosug/news (the page also has > the specs that were created) > > We were 9 of us, of which 5 were students. > Ananth > Anil (student) > Indraneel (student) > Jayanthi (student) > Komala (student) > Ravishankar (student) > Sanjeev > Saurabh > Shivakumar > > Except for Ananth and Myself who had some familiarity with the tool, > everybody else were first timers. > > It was fantastic - be it the initial unexpected hiccups with > networking issues, setting up the environment or getting the first > spec file and each one of us earning our lunches ! > > Thanks to Laca for being online till 3am(his time) ! and also to > tomww(IRC name) for coming online ! > To Kira for giving it a good shot at it (again at 3am her time) > To Madhu for the greate job of providing the infrastructure. > To Ananth for sharing the planning efforts. Apart from many things > thanks for managing the online IRC participation on #bosug. > > And to all who participated for the wonderful weekend that we had.... > > best regards > Shiv > > PS: The attachment about porting details referred to in the below mail > is available at > http://opensource.shivakumar.info/Porting_to_Solaris.html > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> > Date: Aug 10, 2007 8:22 PM > Subject: Ready to go.... > > Hi Group, > > I hope all of you are set to get started... > Lets meet at 10am tomorrow (same place where tutorial was held). > > We'll have some inputs to draw our work upon > 1. Belenix sources that were used to build previous Belenix release > 2. Some of the sources that we intend to port to OpenSolaris will be > available on the server > 3. The spec file repository already has 520+ softwares for which spec > files are written. I have gone through all the patches for the same > and pooled the code corrections done. I am attaching the same for your > reference. This will be available tomorrow. > > What you need to do: > 1. In case you need VMware images to be put onto your laptop, it helps > to come early so that we can make space on your laptop and provide the > setup VMware environment on your system with the required network > connectivity. > 2. If you have any favourity softwares that you want to port, either > get the sources or have the list of softwares so that the sources can > be downloaded during the event. > > Kira Morrow (from US) & Ananth.A(from mumbai) had registered to > participate online. We will be using the #bosug IRC channel on > freenode.net for staying online. Incase of Kira, the hackathon starts > at midnight 00:00hrs US time! Kira drop me mail about the time during > which you will be online. > Kira/Ananth, I'll provide a suggested list of softwares that you may > build. The softwares will be chosen such that there are not too many > dependencies on other softwares. I'll send out the list a few hours > before the start of the event. > > *** Lets gift ourselves with a fantastic session tomorrow... *** > > cheers > Shiv > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
