Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group - DFWOSUG
Charter
The Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group (DFWOSUG) has been established to connect people in the Dallas, Ft. Worth, and Denton areas of who have an interested in Solaris, OpenSolaris and Open Source projects. All are welcome - developers, open-source contributors, system administrator, architects, and any other interested parties.
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Meetings
DFWOSUG holds its meetings on the 3rd Thursday of each month. Meetings are held at the Sun Microsystems Dallas, 16000 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 700, Dallas, Tx. Meetings run from 7:00 to 9:00PM, with light refreshments beginning at 6:00PM.
Next Meeting: June 18, 2009
| WHEN: | Thursday, June 18, 2009 6:30PM - Meet and Greet (with pizza and beverages) 7:00PM - Project updates and group discussion 7:15PM - Sponsor introductions 7:30PM - Featured speaker 8:30PM - Wrap up |
|---|---|
| WHERE: | Sun Microsystems 16000 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 700 Dallas, Tx |
| TOPICS: | Topic: TBD The presentation can be found TBD. Possible Topic? Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris and the latest updates and new features. About Speaker: TBD |
| CONTACT: | Bob Netherton Wences Michel |
| SPONSOR: | Sun Microsystems |
Future 3rd Thursday Meetings
| Date | Topic TBD | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 18, 2008 | Topic TBD | Sun Microsystems Office 16000 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 700 Dallas, Tx |
| July 16, 2008 | Topic TDB | - |
Directions to the Sun Microsystems Dallas office
The Sun Microsystems Dallas office is located on the southeast corner of Keller Springs Road and the North Dallas Parkway . The address 16000 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 700, Dallas, Tx.
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Sun is located on the 7th floor, Suite 700. For after-hours meetings, someone will be in the downstairs lobby to open the front door and to give directions to the Sun office.
Contacts
| Bob Netherton | Sun Microsystems | bob.netherton@gmail.com |
| Wences Michel | Sun Microsystems | wences.michel@sun.com |
Meeting Archive
| Date | Speaker (and slides) | Photos | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 22, 2007 | "What's New in Solaris 11/06" featuring Brad Beadles, Sun Microsystems | Technologent | |
| March 22, 2007 | "Zone Manager - Making Life Easier for System Administrators" featuring Brad Diggs, Sr. Directory Architect, Sun Microsystems and "Everything Non Sparc (We do Windows, too!)" featuring Gene Saunders, Sun Microsystems | Lumenate | |
| April 19, 2007 | "Solaris 10 Security" - Mark Thacker is the Product Line Manager for Solaris Security. Mark has been with Sun for almost 10 years, concentrating in Software and Security Technologies. His presentation will be a discussion of the new Security features in Solaris 10, including the outstanding Trusted Extensions technology, and how to use them at your site. Come learn more about the unparalleled security you have at your disposal in Solaris 10. | Symantec | |
| May 17, 2007 | "Solaris 10 Virtualization" Virtualizing Solaris Series An Overiview of Solaris 10 Virtualization We will discuss: What is virtualization? What are the business problems that we are trying to solve? Deployment big rules (the high level best practices) Featuring Jeff Savit, Sun Microsystems Jeff is a Principal Engineer in the US Systems Practice for Solaris 10 adoption. He focuses on Solaris and virtualization, and also works in areas related to Linux, mainframe migration, performance management, and Java. Before coming to Sun, Jeff was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, where he held technical and managerial roles in development, systems, market data and web applications. | ||
| Sun Microsystems | |||
| June 21, 2007 | "Solaris 10 Logical Domains" Virtualizing Solaris Series An Overiview of Solaris 10 Logical Domains (LDoms) We will discuss: What are LDoms? What are the business problems that we are trying to solve? Interactive demonstration using logical domains Deployment big rules (the high level best practices) Featuring Jeff Savit, Sun Microsystems Jeff is a Principal Engineer in the US Systems Practice for Solaris 10 adoption. He focuses on Solaris and virtualization, and also works in areas related to Linux, mainframe migration, performance management, and Java. Before coming to Sun, Jeff was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, where he held technical and managerial roles in development, systems, market data and web applications. | ||
| SIGMA Solutions, Inc | |||
| July 19, 2007 | "An Overview of Solaris Developers Express" featuring Bob Netherton, Sun Microsystems | Sun Microsystems | |
| August 2007 | "Summer Break" | Sun Microsystems | |
| September 20, 2007 | What are Solaris Containers & ZFS? Why are they important? How I am deploying Solaris Containers & ZFS to solve my business requirements? Featuring Al Hopper Al Hopper is a long time Solaris advocate and currently works at Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. Al is a former OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 | ||
| TBD |