Meetings

Meetings

Generally the monthly meetings will be on the fourth Tuesday of the month 4:30-6:30. The December meeting is generally not held, nor are meetings on public holidays. Since late 2010, meetings are not held in some months.

Meeting Planning

2008 and before

May 27 - Alex Sims on Solaris 10 - the good, the bad and the missing.

August 19 - Alex Sims on measurement within Open Solaris (workshop) (completed, slides, links, discussion to be posted)

September 16 - Alex Sims on Java Web Server or CoolStack, which webserver is right for me?. (ready, slides, links, discussion to be posted)

October 28 - David Lloyd on Dtrace. (planned)

November 25 - Alex Sims on Open Solaris - the road ahead.

December 16 - (special meeting) - Darren Moffat on Security. (publicity, M&G speaker)

2009

January 28 2009 - (not the usual date or time) - Simon Phipps Sun Microsystems Global CTO for Open Source.

February 24 2009 -  Jon Driscoll on Open Storage and Fishworks

March 24 2009 - Alex Sims on OpenSolaris - the road ahead.

April 28 2009 - Jon Driscoll on Cool Threads is it for you? Looking at benefits and challenges of different CPU architectures. Followed by a ZFS tutorial (planned)

May 26 2009 - Alex Sims on Introducing Crossbow, cousin of Dtrace, ZFS and Zones (planned)

June 23 2009 - Alex Sims on OpenSolaris 2009.06

July 28 2009 - Workshop on using SourceJuicer to package JOSM (planned)

August 25 2009 - Allan Packer on MySQL and ZFS plus Alex Sims on Community One West.

September 22 2009 - Alex Sims on Developers - why you need to know about Dtrace and ZFS 

October 27 2009 - Alex Sims on  Games on OpenSolaris; Wine, Java or Native?

November 24 2009 - Alex Sims on Looking back on the Kernel Conference Australia

December 22 2009 - No meeting usually held in December 

2010

January 26 2010 - no meeting this year (Australia Day Holiday)

February 24 2010 - Alex Sims on ZFS vs Btrfs

March 23 2010 - Alex Sims on OpenSolaris 2010.03 launch

April 27 2010 - Alex Sims on Packaging and SourceJuicer 

May 2010 - No Meeting this month

June 22 2010 - Alex Sims on Sourcejuicer in a Box, building a build system in Virtualbox (to be held in Barossa room this month)

July 27 2010 - Mike Bukas on Oracle Server Lineup 

August 24 2010 - Brett Lymn on writing a device driver for Solaris (topic changed on the night to general discussion)

September 28 2010 - No meeting this month

October 26 2010 - Brett Lymn on writing a device driver for Solaris 

November 23 2010 - Alex Sims on the recently released Solaris 11 Express 2010.11 

December 2010 - No meeting usually held in December

2011

January 25 2011 - Alex Sims on latest release of SunStudio

February 22 2011 - No meeting this month

March 22 2011 - No meeting this month

April 26 2011 - Anzac Day Public Holiday

May 24 2011 - No meeting this month

June 28 2011 - Alex Sims on my Home Server (or ZFS is wonderful)

July 26 2011 - No meeting this month

August 23 2011 - No meeting this month

September 27 2011 - Alex Sims on Hardware Fault Management and inducing ZFS failures

October 25 2011 - No meeting this month

November 22 2011 - Alex Sims on what's new in Solaris 11

December 20 2011 - We go together at Marcellina's for a social meeting and had Calzone (of course).

2012

January 2012 - No meeting planned this month

February 2012 - No meeting planned this month

March 27 2012 - Alex Sims on CIFS and techniques for identifying and sorting duplicate files

Projects and Ideas

- Package something (preferably Australian) using SourceJuicer. Possibilities are fishing spots or maybe a Java one, JOSM which is already available in Ubuntu.

Date to TBA, the group is definitely interested
- Databases
- Netbeans
- Community One
- Easy Tools
- Google Summer of Code
- LatencyTOP
- Power Management - Tickless

Topics for consideration by the group
- Hadoop - One Presentation
- OpenSolaris NAS
- OpenSolaris on EEE
- ZFS tricks with 4 USB keys
- ZFS L2ARC
- Hardware Compatability List - Printers - see http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/en_US/entry/don_t_blame_the_printer
- JEOS (Just Enough Operating System)

Ideas from others
- Solaris Wiki Presentations Page