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OpenSolaris Project: London OpenSolaris User GroupView the leaders for this projectProject Observers Endorsing communitiesAdvocacy Community GroupLondon OpenSolaris User GroupLOSUG, October 15th: xVMserver and xVM VirtualBoxWe're lucky to have Sun Principal Engineer, Chris Beal as this month's LOSUG presenter. Chris, who has been heavily involved with the xVM development teams within Sun will give an overview of the product capabilities and implementation of two of the xVM family of products. xVMserver – the software appliance for datacenter virtualisation of x86 platforms, and xVM VirtualBox – the multi-platform x86 desktop virtualisation solution. The talks will include an overview of the components involved, a review of the advantages of each solution and a demonstration of both the xVMserver and VirtualBox products. Location: Timetable: To book your place at the meeting on 15th October, register online. The more the merrier! If you can't make the meeting this time but would like to receive updates and reminders on future meetings, register & join the LOSUG Discussion Forum. Solaris CIFS, aka "Native Samba" at September LOSUGCIFS (Common Internet Filesystem, or SMB (Server Message Block)) is what many know as the "Microsoft Windows Network". Although Samba provides much of this functionality, it is poorly integrated with the operating system, especially in the area of file I/O, identity management and access control. Solaris CIFS delivers a native, well integrated CIFS service offering ubiquitous access to files shared between CIFS and NFS clients, transparent identity management, and scalable high performance. This months LOSUG talk will outline the architecture of the implementation, covering some of the core internal changes made to Solaris to accommodate a native CIFS server and will feature some live demos. Location: Timetable: Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG. To book your place at the meeting on 17th September, register online. To receive updates and reminders register & join the LOSUG Discussion Forum. An Introduction to the OpenSolaris Image Packaging System at LOSUG, August 2008This month, James MacFarlane (Sun Microsystems) & Chris Ridd (Active Community Member) team up to bring you an overview of the new packaging system in OpenSolaris 2008.05. Their session on August 20th will cover the new packaging features from a system admin point of view and a developer perspective. This will include adding, upgrading and removing packages, creating a new repository and creating a new package. Location: Timetable: Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG. To book your place at the meeting on 20th August, use our new automated registration system. To receive updates and reminders register & join the LOSUG Discussion Forum. LOSUG, July 16th: MySQLOur speaker this month is Martin MC Brown, a Technical Writer working in Sun's Database Technology Group. MC's talk will look at MySQL Server and some related technologies that are built into the WebStack component of OpenSolaris. Through the presentation, he'll cover the fundamentals of MySQL, it's functionality and where it's used, how MySQL was introduced into OpenSolaris and the differences between a standard MySQL installation layout and the layout provided with the OpenSolaris product. Using standard OpenSolaris Webstack components, MC will also show you how to deploy MySQL and combine it with memcached to improve web application performance, and how to use the forthcoming DTrace probes to monitor your performance. Location: Timetable: Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG. To book your place at the LOSUG meeting on 16th July, use our new automated registration system. To receive updates and reminders register & join the LOSUG Discussion Forum. LOSUG, June 18th: Trusted ExtensionsEnabling Trusted Extensions (TX) on an OpenSolaris system activates a different (than standard) security policy: one that permits controlling access to data, based on its sensitivity. This feature builds on a set of standard Solaris components – zones, privileges & the GNOME desktop – so the building blocks are well-known. What TX permits is less widely understood. In this talk Bart Blanquart, Sun Security Ambassador will look at how TX does the things it does… and what it allows an administrator to achieve. Location: Timetable: Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG. To book your place at the LOSUG meeting on 18th June visit use our new automated registration system. To receive updates and reminders register & join the LOSUG Discussion Forum. LOSUG, May 21st 2008: Crossbow & IDEWe have two presenters lined up for the May LOSUG meeting, Phil Kirk, Solaris Sustaining Engineer and Chris Beal, Sun Principal Engineer. Phil will give a brief high level overview of crossbow followed by a simple demonstration starting to look at the features crossbow offers by setting up a virtual network on a laptop. You will be able to see the the virtual network routing traffic between virtual nodes connected to the virtual network to show just how like a real network the virtual network is. The second presentation will be a short overview of IDE, also known as NetBeans for Solaris. These sessions will run back-to back and there will be time for Q&A at the end of each presentation. Location: Sun Microsystems Ltd. (Customer Briefing Centre) 45 King William Street London, EC4R 9AN (http://uk.sun.com/aboutsun/location/map-london-1.html) Timetable:
Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG. Register to book your place at the LOSUG meeting on 21st May by emailing joy.marshall@sun.com asking to be added to the LOSUG 21/05 list. To receive updates and reminders register & join the LOSUG Discussion Forum. Forthcoming LOSUG Topics (May-July 2008)Topics at the next three LOSUG meetings are as follows:
Location: Sun Microsystems Ltd. (Customer Briefing Centre) 45 King William Street London, EC4R 9AN (http://uk.sun.com/aboutsun/location/map-london-1.html) Timetable:
To receive updates and reminders register & join the LOSUG Discussion Forum. LOSUG, 16th April – Practical (Open)Solaris SecurityOur speaker this month is Brent Paulson, a Staff Engineer working in Sun's Security Sustaining team. Brent's talk will be based around the practical security features of a web server running on Solaris secured using Zones. The presentation will cover the effects of features such as Secure By Default, IP Filter, SMF Security, RBAC, and Least Privilege from the perspective of a remote attacker who wants to gain access to the system and then theoretically gains local user access and finally root access. The aim is to showcase a number of the security protections provided with (Open)Solaris and how they can be used together in the spirit of defense in depth to help protect the system, its services, and data from attackers. Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG. Register to book your place at the LOSUG meeting on 16th April by emailing joy.marshall@sun.com asking to be added to the LOSUG 16/04 list. Location: Sun Microsystems Ltd. (Customer Briefing Centre) 45 King William Street London, EC4R 9AN (http://uk.sun.com/aboutsun/location/map-london-1.html) Timetable:
To receive updates and reminders, visit http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/losug/, register & join the LOSUG discussion forum. LOSUG, 19th March – On Disk Encryption Projects: ZFS & lofi CryptoWe are lucky to have Darren Moffat, Sun Senior Staff Engineer and Project Lead for the ZFS & lofi Crypto On Disk Encryption OpenSolaris project speaking at the next LOSUG meeting on 19th March 2008. The ZFS & lofi Crypto project which is expected to Beta this month, will provide on disk encryption/decryption support for ZFS datasets covering the addition of encryption and decryption to the ZFS IO pipeline and the key management for ZFS datasets. The project will deliver in multiple phases to support different key management strategies including one which provides support for secure deletion based on encrypted datasets. You can learn more about this project here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zfs-crypto/ . Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG. Register to book your place at the LOSUG meeting on 19th March to hear Darren speak in person by emailing joy.marshall@sun.com asking to be added to the LOSUG 19/03 list. Location: Sun Microsystems Ltd. (Customer Briefing Centre) 45 King William Street London, EC4R 9AN (http://uk.sun.com/aboutsun/location/map-london-1.html) Timetable:
To receive updates and reminders, visit http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/losug/ and register. Project Indiana Developer Preview II at LOSUG February 20th 2008This month, we are privileged to have Jim Hughes as our guest speaker. Jim is a Sun Fellow and VP of Sun Microsystems and currently also the CTO of the Solaris Operating System where he has influence over the future direction of one of the most deployed operating systems today. Jim is a recognised expert in the area of Storage, Networking, Security and Cryptography. Jim has over 32 years experience in the computer industry. For more information see http://research.sun.com/people/hughes Jim will cover Project Indiana Developer Preview 2 at this months meeting, including a demonstration of the technology and group discussion. This is also an unmissable opportunity for you to ask the person in charge of Solaris within Sun questions about the Solaris operating system. Location: Sun Microsystems Ltd. (Customer Briefing Centre) 45 King William Street London, EC4R 9AN (http://uk.sun.com/aboutsun/location/map-london-1.html) Timetable:
Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG. To register to attend the next LOSUG meeting on 20th February, please send your name to joy.marshall@sun.com by Friday 15th February asking to be added to the LOSUG 20/02/08 list. To receive updates and reminders, visit http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/losug/ and register. Advances in OpenSolaris Network Administration at LOSUG January 16th 2008Firstly, we would like to wish you all a Very Happy 2008! Secondly, we would like to thank very much Isamu and James for excellent December LOSUG presos. Now for the New Year; CIFS has been put back a little, but….. For sometime network administration on Solaris has been perhaps harder than it should be and harder than it is on other platforms. This month's presentation covers the recent projects that have been undertaken to address this problem making OpenSolaris a more compelling platform for developers, administrators and users. The projects that this presentation covers are:
The speaker for this month is Phil Kirk. Phil has worked at Sun for the past 11 years. He currently works in the sustaining organisation supporting networking products. He has also been working on the Clearview project team, designing and implementing the IP observability component. Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG so why not bring a colleague? Location: Sun Microsystems Ltd. (Customer Briefing Centre) 45 King William Street London, EC4R 9AN (http://uk.sun.com/aboutsun/location/map-london-1.html) Timetable:
To register to attend the next LOSUG meeting on 16th January, please send your name to Sean Sprague asking to be added to the LOSUG 16/01/08 list. 2008 Dates for your DiaryNB: The dates for future 2008 meetings are 20/02, 19/03, 16/04, 21/05, 18/06, 16/07, 20/08, 17/09, 15/10, 19/11, and 17/12. At this moment, the topics for the presentations are "TBA", but will cover advances in arenas including Security, Virtualisation, emerging technologies, and many more! So please check back here regularly for updates! Thanks and regards… Sean. Two for the price of one at the December 19th LOSUG!As a special Christmas treat, we have two speakers at next month's LOSUG meeting. James MacFarlane, a Sun Staff Engineer will take a look at the recently integrated Solaris 8 Migration Assistant. The session will consist of an overview and demonstration of the Solaris 8 Migration Assistant, which builds on the Branded Zones feature of Solaris to provide an environment to run Solaris 8 applications on top of new hardware and Solaris versions. Our second speaker is Isamu Shigemori, a Solaris Utilities and Libraries Sustaining Engineer. Isamu suffers from Cerebral Palsy which among other symptoms impedes speech. He recently developed a command which uses the speech synthesiser library within the Java Desktop Environment screen reader for the visually impaired to aid people with a speech impediment. Isamu's short presentation will outline this tiny command and demonstrate the possible applications using the command. Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG so why not bring a colleague? Location: Sun Microsystems Ltd. (Customer Briefing Centre) 45 King William Street London, EC4R 9AN (http://uk.sun.com/aboutsun/location/map-london-1.html) Timetable:
To register to attend the next LOSUG meeting on 16th January, please send your name to Sean Sprague asking to be added to the LOSUG 16/01/2008 list. Open High Availability Cluster at LOSUG 21/11/2007Location: Sun Microsystems Ltd. (Customer Briefing Centre), 45 King William Street London, EC4R 9AN Timetable:
LOSUG – November 21st: Discovering Open High Availability Cluster High-Availability (HA) Clusters are a class of tightly-coupled distributed systems that provide high availability of services through hardware and software monitoring and hardware redundancy. The speaker this month will be Paul Mitchell, a Cluster Sustaining Engineer, who has supported Sun's Cluster products for the last 10+ years. He will give a brief overview of the main features of the Solaris Cluster product, describe the Solaris Cluster open-source roadmap then walk through the steps to download, install and build your own Agents with Open HA Cluster. Refreshments will be served from 18:00 at the Sun Microsystems Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AN and the presentation will run from 18:30 – 19:45. Following the presentation, there will be food and a selection of soft drinks, beer and wine provided. There will be a half-hour open forum at 20:30 for anyone who wants to have their say on how the meetings are organised and run, what topics and presenters they would like, what other elements they'd like to see. Hopefully this will be the first of many. The evening will come to a close at 22:00. Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG so please invite your colleagues to come along. To register to attend this next LOSUG meeting, please send your name to losug_att@cvok.co.uk asking to be added to the LOSUG 21/11/2007 list. BTW: Don't forget to mark the date of the December LOSUG meeting in your diary – 19/12/2007! LDoms at LOSUG 17/10/2007Location: Sun Microsystems Ltd. (Customer Briefing Centre), 45 King William Street, London EC4R 9AN Timetable:
Logical Domains, or LDoms, is a virtualisation technology for servers based on the UltraSPARC CMT (Niagara/Rock) family of processors. It allows a user to allocate a system's various resources, such as memory, CPUs, and devices, into logical groupings and create multiple, discrete virtual machines, each with their own operating system, resources, and identity within a single computer system. October's LOSUG speaker will be Liam Merwick, an LDoms developer, who is flying in from Ireland to give us an overview of the LDoms architecture, an update on developments since the release of LDoms 1.0 back in April and a brief look at the roadmap for upcoming features. Everyone is welcome so why not bring a colleague with you? To register to attend the next LOSUG meeting on 17th October, please send your name to Sean Sprague asking to be added to the LOSUG 17/10 list. Future dates for your diary:
Web address: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/losug/ We hope to see you on the 17th! BTW: The slides from September's LOSUG meeting (DTrace: The Evolution, by Jon Haslam) are now available at http://blogs.sun.com/jonh/resource/DTraceAfterS10.pdf DTrace: The Evolution at LOSUG (19/09/07)Since its initial public release in Solaris 10, DTrace has had various new features added that may have gone unnoticed by all but the keenest Tracing addict. Next month's LOSUG speaker will be Jon Haslam, OS Ambassador and DTrace expert, who will look at some of the new features that have appeared in DTrace over the last couple of years. He'll also be looking at some of the new and exciting additions coming in the following months, including a demonstration of his CPU performance counter provider. Refreshments will be served from 18:00 at the Sun Microsystems Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AN and the presentation will start at 18:30, following which there will be food and a selection of soft drinks, beer and wine provided. Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG so why not bring a colleague? To register to attend the next LOSUG meeting on 19th September, please send your name to Sean Sprague asking to be added to the LOSUG 19/09 list. Future dates for your diary:
Hope to see you there on the 19th! JKstat & Making an OpenSolaris Build Server at LOSUG (18/07/07)We've been fortunate to be able to get two presenters lined up for this month's LOSUG meeting on 18th July. Peter Tribble, an enthusiastic member of the OpenSolaris community will present a brief explanation of what Solaris kstats are & specifically what project JKstat is, followed by a demo of jkstat in action. For more information, take a look at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jkstat/. Following Peter will be James MacFarlane, Solaris RPE Staff Engineer. James will give a step-by-step walk through of how to turn a system into an OpenSolaris build server and how to use it to make your own changes to the source code. Refreshments will be served from 18.00 at the Sun Microsystems Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AN and the first presentation will start at 18.30. Following the presentations, there will be food and a selection of soft drinks, beer and wine provided. Everyone is welcome so why not bring a colleague with you? To register to attend the next LOSUG meeting on 18th July, please send your name to Sean Sprague asking to be added to the LOSUG 18/07 list. See you there on the 18th. Solaris Troubleshooting – The Unofficial Tourist Guide at LOSUG (20/06/07)To misquote LP Hartly, "Diagnosing problems on unfamiliar operating systems is a foreign country: they do things differently there". The June London OpenSolaris User group meeting will feature "Solaris Troubleshooting – The Unofficial Tourist Guide " which covers common problems and how to approach them, giving an overview of the rich set of diagnostic tools provided within Solaris which may be unfamiliar. Presenting the talk this month will be Peter Harvey, Solaris RPE Staff Engineer and trained Sun Global Resolution (a formal troubleshooting methodology) Leader. Refreshments will be served from 18.00 at the Sun Microsystems Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AN and the presentation will start at 18.30, following which there will be food and a selection of soft drinks, beer and wine provided. Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG so please invite your customers along or why not bring along your student Campus Ambassadors? To register to attend the next LOSUG meeting on 20th June, please send your name to Sean Sprague asking to be added to the LOSUG 20/06 list. If you wish to suggest areas of diagnostics to cover during the session please email them to the LOSUG team prior to the event. We're looking forward to seeing you there. Slides are now available here. "ZFS: Under The Hood" at LOSUG (16/05/07)The speaker at our next London OpenSolaris User Group (LOSUG) session will be Jarod Nash, TSC Systems Engineer. Jarod will present "ZFS: Under The Hood", which aims to lift up the ZFS Bonnet and explain the building blocks of the ZFS engine. Without getting too bogged down with specific implementation details, he will cover the technical function of all the key components such as the ZPL, the DMU, and the SPA. Jarod says "You could think of this as a "ZFS Internals Lite". Refreshments will be served from 18.00 at the Sun Microsystems Customer Briefing Centre, Regis House, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AN and the presentation will start at 18.30, following which there will be food and drinks provided. Anyone with an interest in OpenSolaris is welcome at LOSUG so Student, Campus Ambassadors, Customers and Developers, why not come along and see what it's all about? To register to attend the next LOSUG meeting on 16th May, please send your name to Sean Sprague asking to be added to the LOSUG 16/05 list. We're looking forward to seeing you there. LOSUG April (18/04/2007) – Just one week away!Many thanks indeed to Simon Phipps and the Engineers for making the March meeting a great success. For this month, we are back to our usual venue of the Sun Customer Briefing Centre, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AD. The nearest underground station is Monument. For the April meeting, the topic to be presented is * Solaris NFS *. The speaker on this occasion will be Calum Mackay, Staff Engineer, NFS Development. Calum will be talking about Solaris NFS futures. The first topic will be NFSv4 Namespace Extensions, including Mirror-Mounts (the ability to automatically mount distinct server filesystems, but without the admin. overhead of the automounter) and Referrals (when a client is referred to a different NFS server). He will also be covering pNFS: Parallel NFS in NFSv4.1. The agenda again will be back to normal, with refreshments being served from 18.00 and the presentation will start at approximately 18.30, following which there will be food and drink provided. If you would like to attend, please send your name to losug_att @ cvok.co.uk (apologies for the superfluous spaces around the @ sign…) We hope to see you on the 18th. Regards… Sean. LOSUG March (13/03/2007) – Agenda updateAs you will (hopefully) be aware, the March LOSUG meeting is taking place on the back of the first of the Sun London Tech Days 2007 (more details below). Because of this, the agenda timing is slightly different to normal; as follows:
Please do not forget the change of venue to the Central Hall, Westminster (again, details in the entry entitled "Dates for 2007 LOSUG meetings" below); so please don't turn up at the CBC ;-) We hope to see you there. Regards… Sean. HOT NEWS! Its Competition Time!THE GREAT SUN FERRARI GIVEAWAY!!!Sun is giving members of the OpenSolaris Community the opportunity to win a an Acer Ferrari laptop, pre-loaded with Solaris. All you have to do to enter to win your very own Ferrari is submit a proposal for an OpenSolaris project by June 20th 2007 and demonstrate(*) the results of your proposal at the July LOSUG meeting.
(*) The definition of "demonstrate" is to show a completed project or functioning prototype, that must use working code. (**) If anyone who is not intending to submit an entry to the competition, and who satisfies the second criterion in the "Rules" section above, would like to join the Panel, please submit your details to Joy Marshall. In the event of multiple applications for Panel membership, a name will be drawn at random. February OpenSolaris User Group Meeting 21st February 2007Topic for the meeting will be SMF: A Quick TourFirstly, I'd like to thank Peter Dennis for running last month's session on New Solaris Features. It was both interesting and informative and certainly got conversation flowing. For anyone who wants to view Pete's presentation, the slides will be posted soon. The next LOSUG session on Wednesday 21st February, will cover the basic operation of SMF (Service Management Facility) which was introduced in Solaris 10. Jarod Nash, Systems TSC Kernel Engineer, will present an overview of the underlying OS facilities used with SMF, which manages the start up of services (both system and application) and provides restart and fault monitoring. The session will conclude with a demonstration of writing and deploying an SMF service. The venue will once again be the Sun Customer Briefing Centre, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AD. The nearest underground station is Monument. Refreshments will be served from 18.00 and the presentation will start at approximately 18.30, following which there will be food and drink provided. To register to attend the next LOSUG meeting, please send your name to Sean Sprague ASAP to confirm your attendance. We hope to see you there! Thanks and regards… Joy Marshall December OpenSolaris User Group Meeting 20th December 2006Topic for the meeting will be VirtualisationHot on the heels of a fantastic presentation by Gavin Maltby in November's meeting, I am very happy to say that the topic for this month's meeting is one of the hot topics of the moment – Virtualisation. We are fortunate to have another top presenter – Chris Beal, who will be covering OpenSolaris projects such as Zones, BrandZ, Xen, and Crossbow. Should be a fab evening! Given the proximity of Christmas, some themed fayre should be on the table… The venue again will be the Sun Customer Briefing Centre, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AD. Nearest underground station is Monument. The timing again is nominally from 18:00 to 20:00. Once again, if you would like to attend (or attend again), it would be great if you could please send an email ASAP to confirm your attendance to Sean Sprague. We hope to see you there! Thanks and regards… Sean Sprague. November OpenSolaris User Group Meeting 15th November 2006Topic for the meeting will be FMAFirstly I would like to sincerely thank everyone who attended the last meeting. The turnout was excellent, and I hope that everyone found the presentation interesting and informative. My thanks go to Darren J. Moffat for being a star presenter. Please accept my apologies for lack of contact since the presentation, but a serious neurological problem affecting my young son rather took precedence… Anyways, we are in luck once again to have a top presenter for the November meeting. This time it will be Gavin Maltby; and he will be presenting on FMA. Gavin is well known throughout the Solaris community for being a techie's techie, and regularly eats three TLB's for breakfast. The venue again will be the Sun Customer Briefing Centre, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AD. Nearest underground station is Monument. The timing again is nominally from 18:00 to 20:00. We will try to kick off at 18:15 promptly this time ;-) Once again, if you would like to attend (or attend again), it would be great if you could please send an email ASAP to confirm your attendance to Sean Sprague. We hope to see you there! Thanks and regards… Sean Sprague. Next ("Renaissance") Meeting: 18th October 2006 !!!Topic for the meeting will be "OpenSolaris Security With a Close Eye on RBAC"The London OpenSolaris User Group has been rather quiet for some time… but now we are back! As with previous meetings, the venue remains the Sun Customer Briefing Centre, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AD; and the timing nominally from 18:00 to 20:00. On this occasion, we are very grateful indeed to have been able to enlist the services of Darren J. Moffat; who will present on OpenSolaris Security, leading into a deeper discussion on RBAC. On completion of the formal preso, there will be a Q&A session. Thereafter, as is customary, we will probably adjourn to a local hostelry to sample their wares. In order to get a flavour for numbers, it would be great if you could please send an email ASAP to confirm your attendance to Sean Sprague. The catering will not be lavish, but we will have some beers available during the event, in order to stave off the pangs of thirst ;-) The following meeting will be on 15th November 2006 at the same venue. If you have any suggestions for future presos, or if you have any thoughts or comments at all, please post a message at London Open Solaris User Group (LOSUG) General Discussion forum Hope to see you on 18th October! Regards… Sean Sprague. 2nd Meeting: 19th December 2005The Xmas L-OSUG is upon us! Given that Christmas is rapidly approaching, there WILL be plenty of mince pies and mulled wine etc on offer ;-) and if that isn't enough, we will adjourn afterwards to a local watering-hole for further refreshment. Location: Sun Customer Briefing Centre, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AD Nearest undergroundstation: Monument Agenda
Work in Progress / Lightning TalkThe work in progress/lightning talk sessions are an opportunity to give a quick overview of something interesting you have done, are doing or think would be cool involving Solaris. Try to keep it technical – the crowd should feel free to heckle, shout down an out-and-out sales pitch! [1] Thx to Alan Burlison who pointed out the term "Lightning Talk" in the L-OSUG thread and also pointed us to the "definition" of LT and how to give a LT If you want to use a couple of slides to assist, please make them available the week before the meeting so that we can gather them all together. Pictures are here and Dave Edmondson also tock some which are here (flickr) 1st Meeting: 20th June 2005Sun Customer Briefing Centre, 45 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AD Nearest underground: Monument Agenda
Sadly I didn't bring my real camera so I had to use my phone (k700i) to get some evidence of people turning up …. pictures are here |