Are You Ready?
The Inaugural meeting of the NEOSUG (New England Opensolaris User Group)
will be held on January 31, 2007 from 5:30-8:00 pm at the Sun
Microsystems campus in Burlington MA. (Map courtesy of Google Maps)
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Sun+Microsystems+Burlington,+MA&ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=42.504756,-71.230545&spn=0.090865,0.115013&t=h&om=1>
The agenda for the evening will include an introduction to the
OpenSolaris project <http://www.opensolaris.org>, and a technical update
on the most recent build of OpenSolaris Code.
Agenda
5:30-6:00 Registration, Refreshments
6:00-6:45 Introduction to the OpenSolaris Project
6:45-7:30 Technical overview --What's New in OpenSolaris
7:30-8:00 Closing: What's next for NEOSUG/ Q&A/ Ask the Experts
Special guests will include:
* Simon Phipps, Community Advisory Board Member and Chief Open
Source Officer, Sun Microsystems <http://www.webmink.net/>
Technology futurist Simon Phipps is a well-known computer industry
insider and commentator who tracks FOSS industry events on
technology trends and futures. Mr. Phipps is currently Chair of
the OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board.
* Dave Miner, Solaris engineering and OpenSolaris community member
Dave Miner is a senior staff engineer in the Solaris development
group at Sun Microsystems and an architect for the Installation
technologies. He's also a lead for the Approachability and
Installation communities and the Live Media project on
OpenSolaris.org. Dave's background is in networking and system
administration. During his 16+ year tenure at Sun, Dave has
worked on several technologies including the original Solaris
admintool, a product related to PC-NFS called SolarNet PC-Admin,
the Solaris DHCP server and DHCP Manager management tool, and the
Service Management Facility (SMF).
* Peter Galvin, Chief Technologist, Corporate Technologies Inc.
<http://www.petergalvin.info/>
Peter Baer Galvin is the Chief Technologist for Corporate Technologies, Inc.
<http://www.cptech.com/>, a systems integrator and VAR, and was the Systems Manager
for Brown University's Computer Science Department. He has written articlesfor Byte and
other magazines. He wrote the Pete's Wicked World and Pete's Super Systems columns at
SunWorld Magazine. He is currently contributing editor for SysAdmin Magazine
<http://www.samag.com/>, where he managed the Solaris Corner. Peter is co-author of
the Operating Systems Concepts and Applied Operating Systems Concepts texbooks. As a
consultant and trainer, Peter has taught tutorials in security and system administration
and given talks at many conferences and institutions on such topics as web services,
performance tuning, and high-availability.
The first 50 members to check in at the meeting receive an OpenSolaris
T-Shirt so come early!
Be sure to register today at http://www.sun.com/neosug
And register for the Opensolaris.org community at
http://opensolaris.org/register.jspa if you are not already.
For further updates on OpenSolaris User Group activities, hit
http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ and subscribe to the ug-neosug
discussion alias.
What: New England OpenSolaris User Group Meeting (NEOSUG)
When: January 31, 2007 6:00-8:00 pm
Where: Sun Microsystems Campus
1 Network Circle
Burlington MA
Find it on GoogleMap here:
(Map courtesy of Google Maps)
<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Sun+Microsystems+Burlington,+MA&ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=42.504756,-71.230545&spn=0.090865,0.115013&t=h&om=1>
Cheers!
LKR
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