Hello, Academic & Research and Chinese Users Communities. Below is a proposal to engage Academia to OpenSolaris community: Academic projects for the OpenSolaris Community. We'd like to engage this community in this effort because you have expertise and contacts around the world. We welcome your suggestions and participation.
_*Issue:*_ Presently, China Academia has been involved a lot into OpenSolaris activities like: (1) CS curriculum development (like Operating System and Unix Programming) based on OpenSolaris, (2) OpenSolaris Course Training, (3) OpenSolaris source code analysis, (4) "Solaris Cup" ACM/ICPC Code Competition. (5) More items are archived in my blog. Please visit http://blogs.sun.com/joeyguo Those professors and faculties who are engaged in these OpenSolaris activities are very eager to have a discussion list to keep up the conversation. But so far, we haven't established one for them on OpenSolaris.org. Besides, we need one repository to keep all the deliverables for the curriculum development and source code analysis results. _*Goal:*_ To facilitate the local communication of China teachers in OpenSolaris community. To offer the OpenSolaris Academic community in China the ability to communicate and share the achievements with global Academia. *_Implementation:_* We'd like to request to create the following projects endorsed by Global Academic & Research community and Chinese User community (Please set up the discussion lists under Global Academic and Research community): - Curriculum Development Project - Course Training Project - Source Code Analysis Project o Curriculum Development Project The goal of this project is to enable the teachers to integrate OpenSolaris into existing relevant Operating System, Unix Programming and C/C++ Programming or creating some optional curriculum on OpenSolaris. So far, this project consists of following sub projects: - Plugin for Operating System Course, Lecturing and Lab Courses - Plugin for System Programming Courses, Lecturing and Lab Courses - Plugin for C/C++ Courses, Lecturing and Lab Courses - Textbook/Reference Books Each Plugin is composed of Slides/Notes and Webcast modules. Accordingly, the Textbook or Reference book will be published as the official supporting materials. Leaders of the project includes influential professors in China. The initial leadership includes Prof. Chen of Peking University, Prof. Xiang of Tsinghua University, Teresa Giacomini and I. Discussion Lists: curriculum at opensolaris.org o Course Training Project The OpenSolaris Course Training did an excellent job to train the professors with the knowledge to integrate OpenSolaris into their courses. Since March, 2006, we have accomplished 10 stops of OpenSolaris Course Training in 7 cities of China. Through the course training, we got about 300 professors trained with OpenSolaris and Developer Tools. Many of them have already integrated or are planning to integrate OpenSolaris in the forthcoming semesters. More details, please visit Joey Guo's Blog (http://blogs.sun.com/joeyguo) To engage more professors to join the OpenSolaris Academic Community, we will keep up or even grow up this training and standardize the course modules to easily be copied by other countries. The Training materials and survey results are of utmost value for this project. Currently, Prof. Chen Xiangqun from Peking University, Teresa Giacomini and I lead this project. Discussion Lists: course-training at opensolaris.org o Source Code Analysis project To engage the professors and students to develop based on OpenSolaris, this project is a basic requirement. So far, a dozen of professors in China have accomplished the first phase and publish all the analysis results in China. And the second phase is undergoing, which is aiming to feed contents to the Operating System Textbook based on OpenSolaris. The long term goal of this project is to develop a Academic Distribution based on OpenSolaris targeting at a universal OS Labs. DTrace, MDB and etc. tools can observe the kernel mechanisms, and the minimized kernel with a well-designed interfaces can serve as a good platform for the students to add more kernel modules in their assignments. Currently, Prof. Xiang Yong, Prof. Chen Yu from Tsinghua University, Teresa Giacomini and I has led this effort. Discussion Lists: src-analysis at opensolaris.org _*Help in need:*_ For community folks, your comments and suggestion are appreciated! For Derek and Jim, please help establish the discussion lists for the professors asap since everyday I have got several emails to ask "where can I send emails to" from the professors. Best regards, Joey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/edu-discuss/attachments/20061219/2f3d36f2/attachment.html>
