I’m happy to announce that we have completed everything and we are ready for the conference. The last remaining bits with the VISA payment system have been sorted out and we have successfully opened registration for the visitors. Here is the official announcement Dirk has sent out on May 15.
I thought I’d share with you some more organization details.
The full conference program covers two days and the Wednesday is reserved for the tutorials. At the moment we have four half-day tutorials available.
Every conference attendee will get a conference bag with printed proceedings and some small things from the sponsors, these are not finalized yet. More importantly, the conference registration fee contains full lunch for both days of the conference in the conference venue itself, so that we don’t need to hop around and search for food and we can still continue chatting over the lunch breaks. On Thursday evening there will be a social event: a boat trip through the historical center of Prague on the Vltava river with the dinner and some beers.
And of course we have the discounts. Although we advertised discounts for the students and for the GUUG, NLUG, and CZOSUG members only, this does not mean that we are not offering discounts to other OpenSolaris User Groups members. Just don’t be shy and get in contact with us.
So if you have not registered yet, do it now as the venue hotel rooms are filling up quickly.
Looking forward meeting you in Prague.
June 3, 2008
Conferences, EN, OpenSolaris
The organization team of the OpenSolaris Developer Conference 2008 was rather busy over the past months. It looks like we are approaching the deadline for paper submissions, so if you haven’t already submitted your presentation, do so now. If you did, than thanx a lot, all the submissions we received are looking to be of a very high quality, and we are going to meet quite a few interesting people. Stay tuned.
We also did a bit on the marketing front. The image you should see above is one of the official conference banners that you are free to use on your website if you would like to help us to spread the word. And since we are community effort relying on sponsorship money only, we will really appreciate that.
And last but not least, we are almost ready to open the registration for visitors that will allow you to book your hotel, pay your tickets, and plan your stay in Prague. You will hear from us soon.
April 16, 2008
Conferences, EN, OpenSolaris, Opensource
OpenSolaris Developer Conference 2008 Call For Papers has just been opened. I’m proud to be part of the organization team and also of the fact that we are hosting the conference in the city I live in, which is Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
We are looking forward meeting you all here in Prague in June 2008.
December 4, 2007
Conferences, EN, OpenSolaris
Here is Moinak talking enthusiastically about the Project Indiana at October BOSUG Meeting where I had a chance to talk a bit about the Challenges and Future Plans for Nexenta.
The audience was very open asking a lot of questions and discussing with smile on their faces various aspects of open development of OpenSolaris.
At let me say it straight, no matter how much we all expect big things from Indiana, we all agreed that the way it is communicated and developed is not very community like. Did I hear someone say something about Sun throwing the source code over the wall?
Let’s hope this will change as more and more code becomes available for the public to see.
Here are the pictures I captured, and there is the rest from Milan.
October 9, 2007
Conferences, EN, Nexenta, OpenSolaris
The seventh annual Debian Conference has been organized in the beautiful city of Edinburgh. And not only that, the conference venue is located just next to the city center, in a old comfortable and friendly place that has got its own atmosphere.
I have met here a lot of really interesting (and famous - in the world of Debian/GNU Linux) people. My impression is that the atmosphere was just amazing, very friendly, open, productive, …. Well, we had some discussions about various license related issues, but as long as we behave as rational people and as long as there exists a common sense I’m not worried.
The picture above shows Tom Marble of Sun and Mathias Klose of Canonical talking about how to best package various Java upstreams available on the market for Debian/GNU Linux, Ubuntu, and later I hope even for Nexenta.
I have taken a chance to present some nice OpenSolaris features like zoneadm clone smoothly integrated within Nexenta.
It’s a pitty I had no more time to spend at DebConf2007, but I’m already looking forward the DebConf2008. The videos of the presentations are becoming available one after one.
The new flash demos about pbuilder running on top ZFS powered OpenSolaris Zones (that are able to host the Debian/4.0 Etch and other Linux distros thanx to BrandZ extension) are all available at my Nexenta Pages.
June 19, 2007
Conferences, EN, Nexenta, OpenSolaris, Opensource
I’m back from Berlin where I once again spoke about Nexenta Operating System. I have used slightly modified version of my OpenSolaris for Human Beings talk and I think it worked well. People were again smiling during the part where I present that it is normal not to support –version commandline switch in the Sun code.
There is also new flash demo available for Nexenta/Debian/Ubuntu newbies that will teach you how to modify existing Debian Package and install it from your custom private APT Repository. Check it out on my Nexenta pages.
June 4, 2007
Conferences, EN, Nexenta, OpenSolaris
It was my great pleasure to speak at the very first OpenSolaris Developer Conference 2007 organized in Berlin, Germany by the German Unix User Group.
I would say that it was even more of a pleasure to talk about Nexenta OS here in Germany where Debian/GNU Linux has a lot of users and strong tradition.
Many thanx are going to all the people who took the courage and organized the event.
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March 2, 2007
Conferences, EN, Life at SUN, OpenSolaris, Opensource
The best moment of the day was to meet Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu and get a chance to hear his vision (more below).
We (me and Garry) had also a nice and long talk with Matthias Hopf of X.org (and SuSE Germany) about X development, opensource, etc., during which I managed (with his help) to get Xgl/compiz running on my laptop and I can finally enjoy wobbling windows, 3d desktop switching, and transparent windows.
Happy to say that it took me just several apt-get install … commands on my Ubuntu. I’m impressed.
Just before flying back home, I got caught by Douglas Magoulas of campware.org who (among other things) got me thinking about this:
Do you think Ubuntu is successfull because it’s pretty and easy to use?
Yes of course it is, but the bigger part of the story is Launchpad and Ubuntu Forums that make it extremely easy for anyone to observe the project, report bugs, post questions, and generally get attention of developers. This is what builds the community, the collaboration tools.
Did I mention having a mailinglist and bug-tracker is not enough?
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September 22, 2006
Conferences, EN, OpenSolaris, Opensource
Today was the .org day at EuroOSCON 2006. We were running a decent, and friendly OpenSolaris booth. We handed out tenths of OpenSolaris StarterKit DVDs and black anniversary t-shirts.
People coming to the booth were generally interested in knowing more about OpenSolaris, it seems that everyone know what Solaris is (quoting their words: “what Solaris was”), but they don’t know how does Solaris relate to OpenSolaris, what is our business model. In general, they were eager to get the DVDs to try them out on their laptops.
The <i boot> DVD is especially interesting because it allows you to boot all existing OpenSolaris distributions from one media, you just have to choose the right one from the GRUB boot menu. Awesome stuff.
My thanx go to all guys who helped to run the booth, from left to right: Darren Keny (JDS), Chris Beal (Kernel), Garry Pennington (Website), Patrick Finch (Communication), and Pete Dennis (Kernel). I don’t deserve to be at the picture, since I was just running around all those sessions while they took the time to answer the questions.
We had the BoF in the evening, not attended by many people, but I believe this was due to the fact that none of the BoFs at EuroOSCON has actually been attended by many people. We had a quiet and friendly talk about DTrace, SMF, Zones, and ZFS, and we all I believe have learned something new.
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September 20, 2006
Conferences, EN, OpenSolaris, Opensource
The first day of European O’Reilly OpenSource Convention conference taking place this year in Brussels didn’t quite meet my expectations. I was listening to some podcasts from EuroOSCON 2005 and I was really impressed by the quality of the talks. I actually expected lot of thought provoking ideas and discussions, but this year the speakers seem to be repeating what has already been said many times.
The bright moment of the day was my evening conversation with Bram Moolenar, the creator of VIM about opensource, licensing, Europe, my work at SUN and his work at Google.
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September 19, 2006
Conferences, EN, OpenSolaris, Opensource
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