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The Netherlands OpenSolaris User Group has been established to connect members of the community interested in OpenSolaris and Solaris, and to grow the OpenSolaris community in the Netherlands. All are welcome - developers, open-source contributors, system administrator, architects, and any other interested parties.

Email Discussion List

An email alias for the Netherlands OpenSolaris User Group is hosted at opensolaris.org. The list is called ug dash nlosug at opensolaris dot org. To subscribe, visit the mail list administration site

Announcements and news will be sent to this list.

Next Meeting on 9 october 2008

Nederlandse uitnodig na de engelstalige uitnodiging.

Announcing NLOSUG, the Dutch OpenSolaris User Group Sixth Meeting

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Where:

Sun Microsystems Nederland BV

Saturnus 1

3824 ME Amersfoort

T : 033-4515000

I : http://nl.sun.com/companyinfo/adressen/saturnus.html

When:

October 9 2008, 19:00-22:00

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Please register by sending an email with your name and company to: mailto:nlosug at sun dot com?subject=Aanmelding-NLOSUG-oct2009
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On Thursday October 9th 2008 the Dutch OpenSolaris User Group will hold its sixth meeting at Sun Microsystems Nederland headquarters, Amersfoort (http://nl.sun.com/companyinfo/adressen/saturnus.html). Solaris developers, users, enthusiasts, experts and novices are all welcome.

Theme for this meeting: IPS, the Image Packaging System for OpenSolaris

We will start at 19:30, agenda as follows:

Bart Muijzer, NLOSUG host, will give an update on the group.

Bart Smaalders, Senior Staff Engineer, will present on the Image Packaging System (IPS).

IPS is targetted as the successor of the current Solaris package management suite and developed entirely as an OpenSolaris Project (ref: opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/).

After the break Bart Muijzer will act as a moderator during the NLOSUG CORE Refresh.

The evening will be concluded with a "Speakers Roundtable" in which several speakers will present on various subjects.

Of course there will be plenty of time for socializing and networking.

We plan to end around 22:00 with snacks and drinks.

Please register via: mailto:nlosug at sun dot com?subject=Aanmelding-NLOSUG-oct2009 or through http://www.nlosug.org .

Agenda:

19:00 Welcome with drinks (including coffee)

19:30 Opening

* Update on NLOSUG, Bart Muijzer – Operating Systems Ambassador and NLOSUG host SUN Microsystems

* Image Packaging System, Bart Smaalders – Senior Staff Engineer SUN Microsystems

* BREAK

* NLOSUG CORE Refresh, Bart Muijzer (moderator)

* Speakers Roundtable

** "OpenSolaris Non-technical", Marcel Knol, iunxi B.V.

Discussion about non-technical aspects (ie quality, long-term stability, support) of OpenSolaris and Solaris, in particular future plans around those.

** "New OpenSolaris Projects", Joep Vesseur – Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems

A walk through the list of current OpenSolaris projects, discussing the most significant current developments.

** "Confused? Nevada, OpenSolaris, SXDE, SXCE, Extrusions…?", Bart Muijzer, Sun Microsystems

An explanation of the function and relationships of different OpenSolaris versions and releases.

22:00 Closing, with snacks and drinks at the SUN bar.

Future Meetings

The NLOSUG will meet again on the following dates:

Thursday 18 december 2008
Thursday 26 march 2008
Thursday 18 june 2008

Topics for these meetings as well as location and time will be published at a later date.

Information about past meetings can be found in the Meeting Archive

Announcements

05 Jun 2008 OpenSolaris 2008.05 availability
15 Dec 2007 Call for external locations

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