Hey all - Just a reminder. It's on this Wednesday.
Please RSVP if you have not already, so we can have appropriate pizza and drinks on hand. Cheers! Nathan. Nathan Kroenert wrote: > Hey all! > > Last month, Crossbow was cool and Dan Cook was even cooler with his > brief discussion on how not to shoot yourself in the foot. Thanks, Dan. :) > > Thanks also to Gavin for making repo images available. Expect to see > that facility again for future meetings. > > This month, we will have the long awaited Sun Ops Centre discussion, > (including a demo on a working system doing provisioning etc) and a > session by Gavin on building your own repo servers from scratch, > including being able to serve the package metadata. Yes - that's right. > You can build your own repo, so you never need to pull the same data > twice again. :) Wooooo! > > See below for topics/speakers. > > 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 February the 17th, at 18:00 for general > discussion and setup of network stuff. > > Speakers start at 18:30 sharp, with Pizza arriving somewhere around > 20:00ish. > > Speakers / Topics will be: > > - Nathan Kroenert: Sun Ops Centre (Previously XVM Ops Centre, > and soon to be Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center!). See what > all the fuss is about, discuss capabilities, strengths, > weaknesses and get a feel for where and if it would be > interesting for you. > > - Gavin Maltby: Building a repo server and using it to update > your Opensolaris hosts. For anyone with more than one > Opensolaris host, this is a must, to save time, bandwidth > and your sanity if you don't have the best of internet > connections. > > - UpdateFest with a local repository / Optionally, depending > on how cavaleer you are feeling, a minimalist installfest... ;) > > Be sure to bring your USB disks or other preferred storage device. > > If it's an NTFS filesystem, also bring a windows laptop... ;) > (We can copy onto NTFS through opensolaris, but the FUSE > implementation is pretty slow... ;) > > Soft drink, coffee/tea and Pizza will be available. (YES - FOOD.) > > **If you plan to attend, please reply NOW to > nathan.kroenert at optusnet.com.au 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. We would > love to continue to continue to grow the group. > > 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://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/User+Group+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 Instigators. > > _______________________________________________ > ug-msosug mailing list > ug-msosug at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-msosug
