Hi All, As this is my first mail to this community, please allow to introduce myself. I am Kumar Abhishek and I work as the Sun Campus Ambassador at SASTRA University, India.
I have been working over popularizing OpenSolaris amongst students and you read about some of my efforts on my blog http://blogs.sun.com/krabhishek One idea after which I have been working for quite sometime now is creating OpenSolaris Education Stack. The idea is to do: 1. Create a (huge) documentation project in which concepts of modern operating systems are explained using OpenSolaris as a case study. Also, the concepts of other areas of computing like Networks, Security etc. are explained in depth, with detailed explanation on how it is implemented in OpenSolaris. 2. Create a distro of OpenSolaris to support this documentation project. This distro would have set of F/OSS educational applications along with a application to browse the documentation and execute the experiments discussed in the documentation. I would request you to kindly give your views on this. IMHO, if we can create a very good study material, where the emphasis is on the concepts taught in text books and OpenSolaris is used as an example to explain them all, it will attract lots of students who are "developers of tomorrow" to use OpenSolaris and then when they would develop, they would consider developing on and for OpenSolaris as their first option which in turn add new blood into the community. If we already have something in place like this I would like to be a part of it. -- Thanks and regards, Kumar Abhishek Campus Ambassador - Sun Microsystems SASTRA University, Thanjavur INDIA -------------------------------------- Mail: Kr.Abhishek at Sun.COM Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/krabhishek Tel: +91 99444 72905 --------------------------------------
