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
