Post by YTC#1Post by Andrew GabrielPost by YTC#1Post by Andrew GabrielI will be giving a presentation on the OpenZFS project at the
UKOUG Solaris SIG Christmas Special on Wednesday 18th December.
You need to think about coming north with this, Solaris runs beyond the
Watford Gap you know :-)
Happy to do so, if there's a suitable meet to hook in to.
And therin lies the problem, the is no northern Solaris user group. Sun
and now Oracle never took up the gauntlet.
Sun did - there were about 10 across the UK, some hooked into
Sun's university compass ambassador program.
I think UKOUG Solaris SIG (formerly LOSUG) is the only one left
worldwide with a regular meeting schedule. There are a handful
of other former OpenSolaris user groups around the world which
have ad-hoc meetings and have merged into their own country's
unix user group (I presented at a Netherlands one). The Silicon
Valley one decided to turn into an Illumos group, and there is
talk of forming a Silicon Valley OpenZFS group.
Post by YTC#1It could be argued that local enthusiasts do it, as was tried with Open
Solaris. But as it was really Sun organising those meetings in London
that was the only reason they got going and kept going.
Most of the UK OpenSolaris user groups sprung up with no Sun
involvement, although we did support them by providing speakers
when they asked us. The London one was driven heavily by Sun
as you say, and was possibly the most successful worldwide,
often attracting 100 attendees (max we could cram into the room).
It transitioned to an Oracle User Group, which is run by a
committee of very enthusiastic users as Oracle doesn't allow
staff to run user groups. Its remit covers all flavours of
Solaris including Illumos, Openindiana, etc. as well as Oracle
Solaris, and that's why it still exists. We get some Linux and
FreeBSD users coming too when the topic is relevant to them
(things like ZFS, Dtrace).
The Solaris Tech Days which I ran (not the user group), and
a number of the other Solaris events I was involved in, we did
run them in the North too. Whilst I got 150 people in London
(and had to close registrations because we had overfilled the
venue), in Manchester it would be about 50, and when we did events
in Scotland, it might be less than 10 people. So Northern events
never managed to attract the numbers we could get in London.
Post by YTC#1Maybe hookup with the Linux groups ?
http://www.manlug.mcc.ac.uk/
Have recently done something on ZFS
That's interesting. It can be a sensitive subject in Linux
circles. I've been to a couple of BTRFS presentions, and you
can detect the friction between the different Linux camps in
the audience that either want ZFS or BTRFS in Linux.
Post by YTC#1Looks a bit better organised than Liverpool http://liv.lug.org.uk/wiki/
(I don't attend either of these as frankly I am more Solaris orientated)
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Andrew Gabriel
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