Hello, There have been a few questions regarding support for the formation of OpenSolaris User Groups within the academic and research community. As is the case with other user groups, OpenSolaris User Groups should be organized such that they are run by the community of intested users. Having said that however, Sun is prepared to provide guidance and support to help kickstart OpenSolaris user groups in the academic community.
Getting started can be fairly straightforward. All you need is a venue and a speaker. The most important success factor after these logistics is to promote your group and meetings to your community. Attached is a sample email from the OpenSolaris User Group in the Bay Area. Sun can help identify speakers and chip in with a few goodies such as t-shirts to help get things started. If you're interested in starting an OpenSolaris User Group for your academic community, please let us know by posting a note here on the education forum. We're happy to help. Gary >From Alan Duboff's blog: see, http://blogs.sun.com/aland/ 3rd OpenSolaris User Group Meeting - June 28th 7:30pm Santa Clara Next Tuesday, one night only! A night not to miss, and there should be good times and something for all! Yes, the 3rd OpenSolaris User Group and for this event we'll have the OpenSolaris group hosting the meeting this month in honor of the release of OpenSolaris, Keith Wesolowski and Mike Kupfer will be presenting on Building and Using OpenSolaris. This will be a great meeting for those wanting to know the nitty gritty details about OpenSolaris and what it took to get it in your hands. Both Keith and Mike have done a tremendous amount of work to get OpenSolaris to where it is today and will share with you some of the details that will help you make the best of it for yourself. The meeting will take place at the Sun Santa Clara Auditorium (upstairs, SCA03), where we have met for the past couple months, same time - 7:30pm-10:00pm. Most of you probably know where the Auditorium is, but just in case you don't, use the directions above, or ask someone where it is. It's fairly easy to get to. We will be having a new venue this month, a panel of Sun engineers that will field questions, and this will take place after the main presentation. Here's a chance to meet some of the Sun engineers that work on Solaris, many of whom have been pushing for OpenSolaris to surface for some time. We will have engineers from many of the various areas of Solaris and hope to have all bases covered, so please bring your toughest questions for them to answer for you. Where: Sun Santa Clara Auditorium (upstairs, SCA03) When: Tuesday, June 28th, 2005 Topic: Open Solaris Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm Hope to see you there! This message posted from opensolaris.org
