Reminder: Meeting this Wednesday night! Please advise me if you are coming so I can cater for Pizza and drinks.
If you plan to bring other new folks along, please let me know!! :) Nathan. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ug-msosug] Melbourne Solaris / OpenSolaris Users Group - Call to Meeting - 18:00, Wednesday October the 15th. Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:25:03 +1000 From: Nathan Kroenert <[email protected]> To: msosug <ug-msosug at opensolaris.org> Greetings all - We are rapidly approaching the next meeting, which, as we usually aim for, falls on the 3rd Wednesday of the month! If it's at all possible, we'd like to see if we can *all* try to bring someone new this month so we can continue to grow our group. So - Forward this email to someone else now! Do it! Do it! Thanks to Chris Wells and Boyd Adamson for their most excellent discussions last month! After last months excursion into Windows (Urk!) Active Directory integration, and some jiggery pokery into SMF, it's time to get all open-source and funky again. This month, we have topics to discuss which live at opposite ends of the spectrum: Datacentre in a Laptop and Sun Cluster. Talk about an odd juxtaposition... Read on for details! Please respond in the positive OR negative ASAP so Pizza and Drinks can be planned. :) Where? Level 7, 476 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, When? Wednesday October the 15th, 2008 at 18:00 for general discussion. Speakers start at 18:30 sharp, with Pizza arriving somewhere around 20:00ish. Speakers / Topics will be: - Boyd Adamson - Cluster When you need 'higher than high' availability, and automated mechanisms to know when your application is actually available, who are you going to turn to? Cluster. - Mark Davies - Datacentre in a Laptop After hearing Sun's Chief Open Source officer, Simon Phipps, talk about the virtues of Open Source and the model that would enable business to not only try before they buy, but indeed deploy a whole enterprise worth of applications before even paying a cent of support, Mark was suspicious, but also intrigued. He set about trying to both prove and debunk the theory and has ultimately shown that it's quite possible. See Mark's "Datacentre in a Laptop" and hear what it took to get from zero to 100% operational in an Opensource world. Soft drink, coffee/tea and Pizza will be available. (YES - FOOD.) **If you plan to attend, please reply NOW to nathan at sun.com so that we can plan for seating / pizza / drinks!** To anyone who meets with or talks to folks interested in Solaris: Please let everyone know about the meeting, the time and the date. The more the merrier, and more diverse! A note on access: The Lifts in the building and entrance to Level 7 automatically lock early in the evening, so access will be provided by Sun folks on-site. A sign will also be placed close to the ground floor lifts with a contact number, should you arrive after the start of the meeting. If you are interested in Solaris, doing interesting things with, or on Solaris, we want YOU! See our opensolaris project page: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/msosug/ Hope to see many of you there, and if you are not yet on the alias ug-msosug at opensolaris.org consider joining us! (See the project page above for details!) Cheers! The MSOSUG Instigators.
