How about a Project of the Day with a "Dtrace" theme? Basically we can have a talk on dtrace and have multiple dtrace sessions to improve the observability of some of the popular open source products like gnome, mysql etc which still do not have dtrace probes. Agreed this may not be viewed as a significant code contribution, but adds tremendous value to the observability of the product.
We also had few more ideas for workouts 1) Implement Bluetooth stack. We have prototype bluetooth implementation done by Anand B, why dont we take this and put it in the kernel. 2) Likewise, how about Implementing Infrared stack. 3) Write Cluster Agents for some applications where agents are not available. 4) It will be good to have something like Suse Studio which is a tool to enable users to create fully supported, customized variants of SUSE Linux, add additional software, and test the resulting image - all in one simple and easy to use interface. (www.susestudio.com) Comments on the above Project of the day and workout proposals are welcome. Thanks, Vidya Sakar On 10/11/08 16:06, S h i v wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
