>The great success in China comes from the fact that there are many people from many teams working on this. Right now there are six OSUG's in China. Fiona Duan (from OpenSolaris Engineering Team) handles the one in Beijing (BJOSUG), Adam Zhang (from ISV/E team) handles the one in Shanghai (SHOSUG) Rachel Zhang (from AGC team) handles the one in Chengdu (CDOSUG), Victor Jie (from GSS) and Benny Luo (from ISV/E team) handle the one in Shenzhen (SZOSUG), while Rita Zhang and Alex Peng (both from SDN China team) handle the newly registered Hangzhou (HZOSUG) and Xi'AN (XAOSUG). There is an emerging OSUG in Nanjing going on, also led by Rita and Alex. This one might join the big family in the near future. The Open Community team led by James Bai is also doing great work in building OSUG's, they might come by and ask to setup new OSUG's > in some other area in China very soon.
I guess OpenSolaris/Solaris operates quite differently from Linux. In the latter (e.g., SuSE or RedHat/Fedora Core), it is always local people who are not related with the corporate entity who operate user groups. There are, of course, pros and cons with each model. However, if anyone asks my opinion, I would say that I much prefer the Linux model, but to be actively assisted by Sun employees. OTOH, as far as software goes, Dalian is probably "the" most important city in China--if not now it will definitely be in the future. During my most recent trip to Taipei, I learned that the computer manufacturers in Taiwan have successfully lobbied daily direct flights from Taipei to Dalian. This should underscore the importance of Dalian in the eyes of the high tech people at least in Taiwan. And it is going to become very obvious in a year or two. Thus, I am wondering whether we should try our best to establish an OSUG in Dalian. I will be more than happy to participate, and pledge our supports from Hawaii. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
