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.

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.

I’m now going to be busy in the dark room enlarging all the portraits I have shot there.

We are looking forward meeting you all here in Prague in June 2008.

In short that means that you should not see the familiar vim: command not found message anymore. VIM will become part of SXCE build 78, it should be in the next SXDE that will be released spring 2008, and I hope that Project Indiana will pick it up soon.

The putback was done by one of our colleagues, Martina Tomisova from Sun Prague last Friday and we celebrated it today by eating Indian sweets.

It is based on OpenSolaris, it is based on Debian/GNU, it features ZFS root/boot configuration, transactional apt-get dist-upgrade side by side with zpool snapshot.

And if I’m not mistaken it is the first commercial product based on OpenSolaris and not being produced by Sun Microsystems.

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.

Although I usually really like books from The Pragmatic Programmers, I kind of didn’t want to read that one because I thought that I already know everything about programming and relationships with Indian engineers after having worked as a manager of small international team of developers. Boy how mistaken I was.

The book is very well written, eye opening and what I liked the most, the author is really tolerant and open minded, the type of a cross-cultural guy you want to take for a beer at least once.

I’m not going to present a book review, just want to say thank you to Honza KopÅ™iva who borrowed me his copy and suggest you to get a copy and enjoy it.