SPARC Meeting - (S)un (P)rofessionals' (A)ssociation of (R)ichmond (C)omputer users
DATE: Thursday, March 1st, 2007
TIME: 4:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.

MEETING SPONSOR - ***Sun Microsystems***

REFRESHMENTS, DOOR PRIZES, NETWORKING, and VALUABLE INFORMATION!

March's Topic: The OpenSolaris Project

Our speaker, Harry Foxwell, Ph.D., will present the OpenSolaris Project, an open source community and a place for collaboration and conversation around OpenSolaris technology. The community represents a wide variety of people around the world including system administrators, developers, educators, students and new users. Harry will review the OpenSolaris Project and the Solaris Express Developer Edition which are free downloads of coming Solaris technologies. New features of commercial Solaris releases appear first in the Solaris Express and OpenSolaris distributions and provide opportunities to try leading edge features such as BrandZ ( Linux Containers) and Xen virtualization.

The OpenSolaris source code is already cutting edge, but innovation happens everywhere so we welcome your involvement and participation.

Harry Foxwell ( Phd, Information Technology ) of Sun will be our presenter for the January meeting. Harry has presented to Richmond SPARC in the past and always provides a lively discussion as well as an in-depth view of Solaris. Harry Foxwell is a Senior System Engineer for Sun Microsystems' Government division in the Washington DC area, where he is responsible for solutions consulting and customer education on Solaris, Linux, and Grid technologies.

Harry has worked for Sun Microsystems since 1995. Prior to that he worked for 6 years as a UNIX and Internet specialist for DEC; he has worked with UNIX systems since 1979. He also maintains Sun's internal website of Linux technical information and has been a Linux user since 1995; he has been influential in developing and promoting Sun's Linux and x86 strategy and messages.

Sun Microsystems will continue to sponsor a "Loyalty Program" for regular attendees of SPARC. Loyal attendees, coming to four or more meetings, will receive a Premium Award at year end. Be sure to get off to a good start by coming to our first meeting of 2007!

LOCATION: Genworth Financial in Building 4 (old 6630 West Broad St.) on the sixth floor (Genworth U).  Genworth Financial is located on West Broad Street in the Brookfield Office Park. After turning at the light on Broad Street and entering the Brookfield Complex...you should stay in the left lane and turn left at the stop sign.  Follow the road around past the Sheraton to Building 4 toward the back of the campus. Turn left for Visitor Parking.  Additional parking is located on the far side of the building as well.  Please enter at the front main entrance.
For directions to 6630 West Broad St. go to the following URL:

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/ddResults.py?Pyt=Tmap&tarname=&tardesc=&tarhash=&taraddr=6630+West+Broad+St&tarcsz=Richmond,+VA+23230-1702&a mp;newtcountry=us&newcountry=us&doit=1

RSVP: Please send an email RSVP at RSVP@RichmondSparc.com. You can also RSVP via the web site. We need to have a list of attendees for the Security Guards at Genworth Financial. THANKS!

For additional information about the Richmond SPARC Users Group, please visit http://www.RichmondSparc.com/. We hope to see you there!