hey, that`s wonderful! :)
Abhishek Kumar wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have some very good news to share with everyone in this list. There is a > lot of things which we are doing through Mumbai OpenSolaris User Group for > OpenSolaris in India in Feb. > > Digit, which is India's largest IT magazine (http://thinkdigit.com), > publishes a very popular series of mini book (96 pages) under the name Fast > Track which is bundled with the magazine every month. Earlier this month, I > worked with the editorial team of Digit and got a last minute chance to > write the Feb issue of Fast Track on OpenSolaris. > > You all will be happy to know that Digit will be printing more than 100,000 > copies of Fast Track to OpenSolaris and will be distributing it for free > with their February issue :-) > > > The chapters that I have covered in this books are mentioned in the cover > page design which I am attaching with the email (you can also download it > from http://kumarabhishek.com/FT.jpg ). It covers everything from > Installation to ZFS, DTrace, Source Juicer etc. I have written the book > keeping Indian developer, specially student developers in mind, and have > tried to cover everything in a step by step like guide. > > This book also has a micro-site following it at > http://thinkdigit.com/opensolaris and Digit magazine is also conducting a > quiz competition at http://www.thinkdigit.com/osolgeekhunt/ Anyone can > participate in this quiz but prizes can be won only by Indian citizens. I > request all of you to check these links out and participate in the quiz! The > quiz will run of 4 weeks and a new set of questions will come out every > month. Participants need to keep accumulating points till the end of the > month to win prizes. Prizes are a Acer netbook, 1 TB external hard disk and > many more! > > I have also got some extra copies of the book, and planning to distribute it > during the Hyderabad Sun Tech Days in March. Meanwhile if any of the osug > leaders would want to have a copy of it, I can try and get it sent to them. > Just write me a note privately for that. > > Many folks were of great help making this book possible (we got only 10 days > to finish writing the book!) specially Glynn Foster, Brian Leonard, Peter > Karlsson and others helped me a ton by answering many of my questions and by > allowing me to use some of their contents. > > We are all pretty excited about this book and the quiz at > www.thinkdigit.com/opensolaris and I hope this easy-to-digest 96 page book > will help us further strengthen the OpenSolaris community in India. > > > Cheers, > Abhishek > Leader - Mumbai OSUG > http://tr.im/mumbaiosug > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss >
