Software Freedom Day Celebration

Sponsored by the KTH OSUM


Alper Celik & Gokhan Dogan
Sun Campus Ambassadors
to KTH

Software Freedom Day - Agenda

Software Freedom Day Free and Open Source Software Changing (Y)Our World

KTH Open Source University Meetup (OSUM Awesome!)

OpenSolaris Installation Demo

Reception with OpenSolaris Install-fest and FOSS stations

"In a time when our lives are increasingly dependent on technologies, it is important we take the time to consider the impact of technology on our lives, and the importance of ensuring technology isn't used to limit us, but rather to take us further along a path of opportunity, innovation and freedom for all people." Pia Waugh, President of Software Freedom International

A Global Celebration of FOSS

FOSS promises a world of digital freedoms

The freedom to participate, collaborate, create, use and deploy

Open Source =

Expanded opportunity

Increased flexibility

New communities

Continual innovation

Software Freedom Day - 2008

Celebration of software freedom and opportunities through participatory technologies

Coordinated by Software Freedom International to encourage adoption of FOSS

Promotes unity among teams in scores of countries working toward a common goal

Over 300 events in 2007

Sun Support For Software Freedom Day

Sun is a major sponsor of Software Freedom Day

Largest contributor of code to FOSS community

Promoting participation in SFD events through sun.com/softwarefreedomday

Promoting benefits of FOSS to students

Over 200 events around the world

Every software asset we produce is open source. If it isn't today, it will be pretty damn quickly.

Jonathan Schwartz
CEO, Sun MicrosystemsJanuary 2007

Sun is Committed to Developer Communities

Java

Infrastructure

Ecosystem

Community

Solaris

Building
Free
and
Open Communities

Building a Vibrant Ecosystem: Sun is the Largest
Commercial Contributor to Open Source Communities

SPARC

java.net
The Source for Java
Technology Collaboration

It has long been in Sun's history to support open environments, Java being a prime example. Over the past few years, we've greatly expanded our community building efforts.Building open and free communities is likely the least understood of Sun's innovation, choice and open strategy triad, but may well be the most important.Opening our IP and our technology provides immediate support not only for our products and services, but for development of new and innovative products which build on our core technologies. It's a win-win situation for Sun and the developer communities, and provides you our customers with a broader base of support and set of solutions than any single company could ever achieve on its own.

Perhaps because of our history, Sun has a very keen awareness of the importance of community.

Communities drive standards, adoption and development.

Sun's open source licensing is about fostering innovative, enterprising communities.

Sun's patent policy if about protecting the community from exposure.

Sun's commitment to good open source governance is about building communities through trust. Sun is wokring to build equitable, transparent and fair open source communities.

When Sun build its first workstation, it was produced out of common off-the-shelf components, and ued an open source operating system, BSD OS 4.02, (although it wasn't called open source at the time!), to which Bill Joy, one of Sun's founders, was a principal contributor.

IN the intervening time, Sun has promoted open standards, such as TCP/IP and NFS, which have always won out over closed standards (what did happen to Token Ring?). Sun was also a contributor to X Windows and Open Windows projects.

When SunOS was merged with SVR3 in 1990, the source to SunOS, subsequently Solaris, was closed. However, Sun bought the rights to UNIX, avoiding licensing fees then, and it is those rights which allowed us to open the source in 2005.

Change (Y)Our World With FOSS

Virtual laboratory to build skills for careers in IT

Flexible canvass for student projects

Empowers independent learning (no barriers)

Launching pad for growing communities

Facilitates connection and collaboration with others

Easily acquired (free of charge)

KTH Open Source University Meetup

KTH OSUM

The Open Source University Meetup (OSUM pronounced awesome) is an on-campus club that educates students about the benefits of FOSS

"Meetup" to encourage collaboration with existing student groups to create a stronger open source community

Monthly meetings with Tech Demos, hands on projects/activities, guest speakers

OSUM benefits:

Training on technologies to prepare for IT careers

Free and low-cost student resources, such as the SAI

Make friends through the Sun OSUM activities

Media kits, Give-aways & Food!

OSUM Global Community

Hundreds of student clubs

Tens of thousands of technical students

Social-networking site to connect, share and collaborate

Resources to advance career opportunities

Register today!

Upcoming activities

Gokhan Dogan Gokhan.Dogan@Sun.com

Alper Celik Alper.Celik@Sun.com

http://sunkth.wordpress.com

Intro. Here to tell you the story of OpenSolaris and the birth of new open source community.

The graphics you see here are from Chanda, one of the Solaris engineers. We launched the project website with a version of these graphics. We were looking for one word to represent what we were doing without having to constantly say the project was launched -- which is more of a product marketing term. So, we called it the opening, or the grand opening, or something. Just open works best. And since the OpenSolaris community hit the ground running with thousands of people around the world, we felt that open in all these varied languages was appropriate. Pretty simple. But a pretty powerful statement about the OpenSolaris community.

What I'm here to talk to you about is the community. The people. To me the people are the most interesting part of this project which is convenient for me since I'm not a coder. I'm an observer. A farmer. A scout. And a cat herder.

So, I'd like to tell you the OpenSolaris story. You are quite literally witnessing the birth of a new community and we're very excited about it.

Thank you!

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