The Twitter Diaries: 2009-06-14: CO

June 14, 2009 Deirdre Straughan Leave a comment

^ Colorado wildflower

Eating at panera before dropping E at sfo and going on to sjc. Won’t see him til august #
Now to prepare for speaking in Chicago and Porto Alegre #
@lskrocki WTF? I didn’t know we got tornadoes in Colorado! in reply to lskrocki #
made it to SJC in plenty of time to not pay $54 extra (per hour!) on rental car. Got to security before I realized I still had the keys #
@pizzocalabro Brazil, New Zealand, and Australia – three new (to me) countries in one month! in reply to pizzocalabro #
Are You There God? It’s Me, Monica – http://bit.ly/u6Qou – ironically, I wrote about this years ago: http://bit.ly/rxbGa #
@lskrocki Humph. If I wanted tornadoes, I’d live in Kansas! in reply to lskrocki #
I am freakin’ flying home into tornadoes? Damn damn damn. I don’t scare easily on planes, but this might do it. #
@rosso harass them to give you credit and a link in reply to rosso #
yup, figured. Weather delay into Denver #
Landed dia. Hungry. Won’t make it home without food, not much there anyway. Hope we at least have milk for breakfast #
I’m in one of my moods when I can think of something snarky about everyone I see #
@nonstick those who work with me know that the key is to keep me fed. #
@dave_enz great thanks! I’ll book flights this week #
Spain’s El Pais deserves a medal for services to Italy #
oh, right, that’s what my Tivo was recording – the Tony Awards! Hope I recorded long enough, suspect not… #
Find someone NOT on Twitter who’s EVER heard of Laporte, Arrington, et al. If you can’t, then please stop tweeting about them. #
Who’s in/near Chicago? I’ll be speaking next week on UTILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS TO BUILD ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNITY http://bit.ly/39dP3Z #
frustrating to list 5 steps to get to the-thing-that-isn’t-working only to be told “It works for me” – by someone who has only done step 1 #
ps re the conference http://bit.ly/39dP3Z – I can offer a speaker discount, DM me for details. #
RT @plasticbagUK: great Twitter feature? Temporary mute. Like, “I don’t want to hear from this person for a couple of hours”. – YES! #
hmm. Got some great footage of the carpet at our OSUG bootcamp. We’ll pretend I was wrestling the union steward for control of my camera. #
@darrinschaos happy birthday to you, and to @jscusc ! in reply to darrinschaos #
Sunday Morning, Coming Down http://bit.ly/y5w19 #
so what’s the best travel pillow out there? #
@glynnfoster honestly not crazy about the new t-shirts. What has soccer/football got to do with OpenSolaris? in reply to glynnfoster #
what’s with the juvenile “first post!” crap? Maybe popular bloggers should automatically delete those. #
@alydenisof I believe we allow the faux Brits to use “twits” as more natural to them. in reply to alydenisof #
I wish the cos who spam me had a minimum grasp of demographic targeting. I have NO INTEREST in Miley Cyrus tickets, thx v much AmEx! #
@amber_benson amber_benson you’re welcome. You might remember my daughter: http://bit.ly/99e2K #
@katlemieux thanks. Sun does a lot with SL, but I haven’t gone back to it myself since way back when I first tried it. Too much overhead. #
@llcrowe thanks, but seems too bulky gien everything else I have to carry… in reply to llcrowe #
covering meetings for the boss this week. I’m learning a lot. I guess. #
RT @MMaryMary: I don’t leave people voicemail for the same reason that I don’t put back airline seat backs. – me, neither! #
I have HOW MANY more hours of meetings today? #
my head is going to explode, any minute now. #
@darrinschaos depends. You gonna make it worth my while? ; ) in reply to darrinschaos #
duplicating 250 USB sticks with video. The glamorous life of a social media guru… #
@llcrowe Sorry, by travel I meant one for use on the plane! Tho one for hotels would also be nice… in reply to llcrowe #
was pulling into the Wal-Mart parking lot (Broomfield) when the tornado siren went. Agh! Don’t let me be trapped in Wal-Mart! #
@bubbva fortunately, the siren didn’t last long. There was real nightmare potential there though in reply to bubbva #
I wish I could figure out how to turn off the FB “notifications” about horoscopes. Stop spamming me with rubbish I don’t believe in. #
phone conf today with my co-panelists from http://bit.ly/39dP3Z – we all have interesting stories to tell about enterprise social media #
wondering if I should just turn off comments on my personal blog. It’s almost all spammers these days. Clever ones, but still spammers. #
why does the same ticket cost $130 less on travelocity than purchasing directly from ba.com? #
@sogrady apparently, putting together an Airbus and having it STAY together are two different propositions. in reply to sogrady #
any opinions on orbitz vs expedia vs travelocity? #
@dreamofitaly wish I was seeing low prices on tickets FROM Italy. Any tips? in reply to dreamofitaly #
@ingenthr kayak is great for researching fares, but they actually send you to the other sites to buy in reply to ingenthr #
@dreamofitaly flights originating in Italy are more expensive, but the SAME flight costs $130 more from ba.com than from Expedia. Boh. in reply to dreamofitaly #
@travelocity you’re going to have to sell harder than that! Why are you better? in reply to travelocity #
@jailmedia fortunately, the individual in question (not my daughter!) has been released in reply to jailmedia #
@Cdash burning question: why can I set up auto-payment for my personal AmEx, but not for corporate? in reply to Cdash #
will be speaking in Wellington, NZ on Extending Conversations http://bit.ly/1QQAUt July 6-8 #
@MissExpatria Italian schoolchildren are graded on verbosity. Ross was never taught how to structure an essay, just to use fancy words. in reply to MissExpatria #
I really, really miss the great travel agent we had in Milan. She got us tons of great deals. But the agency went out of business. #
@lbridenne76 nah, just crushed by the global changes in the travel industry. How many travel agencies do you see around these days? in reply to lbridenne76 #
continuing to harass corp travel. My 5+ week trip just keeps getting more complicated (and more fun!) #
@cbs4denver experiences in Europe, esp. Ireland, show that a plastic bag tax encourages people to use reusable bags. Soon becomes a habit in reply to cbs4denver #
I still haven’t figured out who Gen Y and Gen X even are. Except that I don’t think I’m in either, and I don’t fit the profile of any… #
hmm. @ThinGuy says Gen Y was born post-boomer, pre-1980, @zenxacred says they were teens in late 90s/00s. I was born in 1962, grad 1981 #
OMFG. You have got to be kidding me. Please, someone tell me this is a cruel joke. #
videocameras manned by expensive union crews with NO F’IN TAPES IN THEM? I don’t know whether to weep or scream or just throw up. #
there are tapes after all. I can sleep. #
@davewiner gris gris gumbo ya ya, but apropos of what? He’s not dead, is he? in reply to davewiner #
is this is ad for an MMPORG or a steamy romance novel? I’m confused. #
Are you a student interested in high-performance computing? If so: it’s PARTY TIME! http://isc09studentparty.eventbrite.com/ #
new FB group name translates as “What else does Berlusconi have to do to change your mind? Screw your grandmother?” http://bit.ly/QgXhM #
@kbeninato @davewiner probably says a lot (weird) about my childhood that I could likely sing all of the Night Tripper album from memory in reply to kbeninato #
@kbeninato @davewiner & at the end of the live-action 101 Dalmatians, I mortified my daughter yelling in a Milan cinema: OMG it’s Dr. John! in reply to kbeninato #
@kbeninato glad you found me. I was born in NOLA, family there still, have not been back in ages. May make it, finally, in October. in reply to kbeninato #
covering for the boss today involves a FIVE HOUR meeting. I really don’t know how she does it. There must be secret executive stamina shots. #
OTOH, being in a videoconf room for 5 hrs means I won’t have to listen to the jackhammering outside my office window. #
bing search picks up my Tweets rather than content from the page they’re linking to. ??? search on “Italian slang” to see an example #
@italylogue I think I now qualify as a reverse expat. After 17 years in Italy, the US is in many ways a foreign country to me. in reply to italylogue #
@italylogue tons of articles in my head on moving back to the US, no time to write them! in reply to italylogue #
anybody in Chicago? I’ll be there Monday evening-Weds evening #
my good mood was more fragile than I’d thought. #
@nonstick can’t. The VP can see me on the videoconference. in reply to nonstick #
What’s more cruelly and stupidly ironic here? The event, or the comments speculating on why it occurred? http://bit.ly/AQmYb #
Indian colleges ban jeans to ‘protect’ girls http://bit.ly/Ouyjs – “eve teasing” happens to women in Indian clothing, too! #
“In Italy, the general assumption is that someone is guilty until proven innocent.” http://bit.ly/DzVlh – ? how do you explain Berlusconi? #
@kbeninato NOLA at Halloween wd be amazing, but I’ll be in Tuscon then in reply to kbeninato #
I need a hug #
thanks for the hugs, folks! Will that also work for margaritas? ; ) #
A parade of window cleaners passes. Wonder if they have trouble with the owls #
@dave_enz looks good! in reply to dave_enz #
@jeffreytaylor zoned printer cartridges? that is totally weird. What is their excuse? in reply to jeffreytaylor #
@jeffreytaylor but you told anyway. ; ) in reply to jeffreytaylor #
moving finished projects off my Mac and onto archive to make room for new video. Finally getting some use out of that Thumper I bragged on. #
Dinner: pasta with pesto the real Genovese way, with potatoes and green beans #
I’d be more excited about the upcoming weekend were it not for the suspicion that I’ll be doing a lot of work… #
@lskrocki thanks – and rather appropriate for me right now! in reply to lskrocki #
@ajkeen you paying the tickets? in reply to ajkeen #
@lskrocki actually, I was referring to the song. ; ) but, yes, people can be amazingly resilient. “Slumdog” was very true to life that way in reply to lskrocki #
@briansolis re Dell, so much for the theory that Twitter is “only for seduction, never for sex.” ; ) in reply to briansolis #
driving to work, “Chess” came up on my iPod shuffle (of ~10k songs). In my inbox an offer from Amazon for “Chess in Concert” DVD. Scary. #
ooh, wow – Chess in Concert looks great (okay, I’m a musicals geek) – I ordered it. http://bit.ly/ZdjYS #
seems unfair that anyone I follow is allowed to DM me, but I can’t DM them back unless they’re also following me. DM rights should be equal #
does anyone have a graphic showing locations of Sun offices worldwide? need urgently for a preso #
starting to make noise about the Sun videos we’ve been translating – http://bit.ly/1mMLR #
@sumaya The Economist. in reply to sumaya #
@c0t0d0s0 please help spread the word about Student Event at ISC – Eventbrite http://bit.ly/3YrAsv #
so far today: wkd on Chicago preso, discd FISL preso, edited & uploaded 1 OHAC video, lined up ~6 hrs of video for translation, tracked vids #
…and the very watery cup of coffee I just managed to brew is definitely not going to suffice #
@italylogue @divinacucina I always liked Milan, too. But had to leave before the pollution killed me (literally). in reply to italylogue #
RT @c0t0d0s0: just blogged: ISC’09 Student Event http://tinyurl.com/mp3h96 – Thanks! @templedf FYI #
@sumaya what will it be and when? #SocialYou in reply to sumaya #
@ThinGuy if they gave you a show, you would have to have an affair with your bodyguard in reply to ThinGuy #
@missbhavens depends whether you’re doing this way too seriously or not. I don’t recall taking more than a day or 2, only to meet visitors in reply to missbhavens #
I love working with engineers; their “just the facts” attitude suits me. #
@sumaya I’ll be in Brazil, presenting on videoblogging! #socialyou in reply to sumaya #
Presenting the New Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptops – Video http://bit.ly/4ibPlG #
Meet some OpenSolaris User Group Leaders – Video http://bit.ly/2rJb5 #
OMG how did I not know about this? Hysterical! http://bit.ly/11zb9w #
@reiger hopefully will see you at Usenix, if not before. in reply to reiger #
@sumaya well, hey, didn’t you go to Jordan or thereabouts? I was jealous then! #socialyou in reply to sumaya #
@lskrocki the comb-over is precisely intended to stop horrible embarrassments like mom kisses. in reply to lskrocki #
okay, so now I have http://www.facebook.com/deirdre.straughan – so what? #
@MissExpatria never used GoDaddy, but have been mostly happy with DreamHost for years in reply to MissExpatria #
I have so little influence over Google earnings on my site. Don’t have time to seek more direct ads, so far they find me. #
I should buy a better camera for this trip but don’t really want to spend right now, and don’t have time to do the research. #
@darrinschaos I have a point and shoot, plan to buy a DSLR later. I have to carry video equipment this trip anyway, so a big camera… nah in reply to darrinschaos #
is Twitter search broken? Looking for the live tweets we did at #ohac, get no results. #
hmm. Does Twitter search not have an archive beyond ten days? just-now tweet with #ohac shows up, dozens of tweets from May 31 do not. #
mini bulldozer being used to spread dirt – job cd be done quietly, cheaply, without pollution using a wheelbarrow and a shovel! #
@davest now I’m even sadder I can’t be there! in reply to davest #
@stoweboyd @jeffreytaylor should dine with you and cool people. in reply to stoweboyd #
saw “Up” today. Lovely, but opening seq made me want to shout: “If you have a dream, bloody well pursue it NOW!” You never know. #
Calacanis must be pissed: “his search engine, Malaho” http://bit.ly/9XW4A Thought the NYT had fact-checkers, or at least spell checkers. #

Producing Social Media

June 14, 2009 Deirdre Straughan 1 Comment

Last week was a big one for Sun conferences, with CommunityOne on June 1st and 2nd, JavaOne starting on the 2nd. Like many other Sun folks, I was very busy with preparations in the weeks leading up to these, and played several different roles throughout conference week.

For some of us, C1/J1 were preceded on Sunday, May 31st by the Open High Availability Cluster Summit. Unlike our previous “specialty” summits for Open Storage, this one was organized mostly by the cluster engineering team themselves (though we of the community team like to think we’ve set a good example), who did a fantastic job of marketing it, achieving over 170 registrations.

They did ask me to cover video and social media for the summit. As I was doing it, I realized the job should be called “social media producer”. It’s more work than you might think.

In this case, I assumed my tasks to include:

live video streaming of the talks (double tracks in the afternoon), with monitoring of any chat on the stream
recording video for future editing and posting (NB: the video stream site can also capture the video, but the quality is poor)
live-Tweeting the proceedings with the hashtag #ohac (why these tweets are no longer available via search.twitter.com is a mystery).
assembling and managing a team who actually did most of the work (in part because I was ill, and not up to doing it myself all day as usual)

Room sound and lighting were handled by SWANK Audio Visuals, who were a pleasure to work with. I let them knowÂ in advance my requirements for camera position, with an Ethernet connection for video streaming and electricity for the camera, and found everything ready for me as requested Sunday morning. I set up my usual videoblogging gear, with the SWANK crew there ready to make the last-minute adjustments that are always needed.

Some things we figured out the hard way:

Unlike the the Open University’s FlashMeeting that I used for the last Open Storage Summit, UStream requires a separate feed for the audio, into the mic jack of the laptop you’re streaming from. [NB No longer true in 2012 with more recent UStream Producer software.] We took this from the sound board, but it needed an XLR grounding adapter (which, fortunately, the A/V crew had) to eliminate a very annoying hum. I was alerted to this hum by Mark Carlson, who was watching the stream remotely, via SMS – how many different forms of communication can I use in one day?

The fact that I learned about the problem from Mark tells me that it’s necessary to periodically monitor sound levels and quality into both the camera and the UStream. I used my iPhone headphones for this – not great, but better than nothing – or carrying around yet another piece of dedicated gear.

Another UStream gotcha: it requires you to press two different buttons to start broadcasting and start recording, whereas FlashMeeting simply stores everything that goes on during your broadcast. Because I wasn’t used to this, and not all of our ad hoc social media team had had the UStream training offered by Sun’s media team the previous week, we may not have hit the record button on every talk (don’t worry – we still have videotape).

UStream in its normal configuration includes a chat window which I had planned to use to encourage conversation among the online audience and to take questions from them. (It’s also useful for monitoring stream quality – people complain instantly on the chat if there’s a problem.) But for this event I was using the Sun UStream account, which, for reasons unknown to me, has disabled chat. All I could do was hope people asked questions via Twitter. No one did, which was disappointing – we had had good participation this way at the Open Storage Summit, with online questions to relay to the room for almost every talk.

I had one user contact me via email afterwards to complain that he had not been able to get the stream to work from his home. He’s an engineer and certainly knew enough to try it on various systems, so I’m at a loss to know what went wrong. Hoping the Sun media team can figure it out so it doesn’t happen again.

I had been so ill the week before that I wasn’t thinking clearly, and spaced on the fact that I’d need a laptop with a FireWire connector to connect the camera for the UStream, so I’d only brought along my MacBook Air (which, horribly, lacks FireWire). Fortunately, we had two Toshiba PortegÃ© R500 netbooks along, which have FireWire and mic jacks and were easily set up to be our streaming stations. If I were to spec out a portable social media production station, one of these would be part of it.

What went well:

The C1/J1 conferences function, in part, as an opportunity for current and former Sun employees from around the world to gather and see each other. Everyone was looking for a reason to be there, so I had volunteers to help out with video and other social media tasks: Aaron Newcomb (who already knows his way around a video camera), Alan McLellan, and Alta Elstad – the Triple A team!

Alan and Alta attended the UStream training on Friday, so they were able to start and stop the UStream recordings for each session. They also jumped right in to live tweeting (using my Twitter account part of the time, hence all the activity) – as Sun tech writers, in fact, they were far more effective at this than I would have been.

Alan was confident enough to take over the videocamera in the main room so I could go rest (still ill), and Aaron arrived in time to run the camera in the second room in the afternoon. (I had hoped he would also do some video interviews on Monday, but he found himself disabled by an unexpectedly drained camera battery. Another lesson: always have a charged backup battery.)

Results:

8+ hours of video recorded (requests for it to be posted quickly started coming in the next day). Like most of the highly technical video I produce, the viewing statistics on this stuff may never look impressive. It’s certainly not viral video. But it will be immensely valuable – and most of it will remain so over time – to a select worldwide audience.
Up to 9 or 10 people on the video streams at any given time – people who couldn’t join us in person were nonetheless able to participate. This number may seem small, but the conference itself wasn’t that big, maybe 150 attendees total.
Lots of Twitter coverage

Costs:

Time and effort by people who wanted to be there because they had direct interest and expertise, and didn’t have to be paid (extra) to do the social media work. All parties benefited.
(My) time to produce the event, then edit, post, manage, and measure the final video.

I’d call that a fair return on investment.

photo at top: me and Alan, hard at work (photo by Lynn)

travel in India

Gallery: New Delhi, December 2007

June 13, 2009 Deirdre Straughan Leave a comment

what I do

Gallery: OpenSolaris User Group Bootcamp

June 8, 2009 Deirdre Straughan Leave a comment

Also see Jim Grisanzio’s much better photos from CommunityOne.

bio

The Twitter Diaries: 2009-06-07: San Francisco

June 7, 2009 Deirdre Straughan Leave a comment

^ Sunday morning coming down: Lynn spotted this sad little scene on 4th street in San Francisco as we made our way to the first of several conferences this week

@MissExpatria wow, you auditioned? for what role? phenomenal show. in reply to MissExpatria #
@pamt456 re. Wicked, you should read the book(s). Very meaty. in reply to pamt456 #
right… time to face the day. White noise machine not quite as effective as hoped in the snore battle. #
live stream of the OHAC summit at http://bit.ly/AFkfa
(not much happening yet) #
getting ready to start #ohac #
here’s what we’re doing today: http://bit.ly/9FiUR #
Alan McClellan http://blogs.sun.com/docexchange/ will be handling my twitter stream today – I’m operating a camera (or two) #
#ohac keen on getting started with the OpenHA Cluster summit. #
#ohac Dr. David Cheriton of Stanford is kicking things off with presentation titled “The Network is the Cluster.” #
#ohac If you are following the video ustream, note we are trying to fix the buzz in the audio. #
#ohac buzz fixed. xlr needed grounding #
#ohac Think of the network as a backplane for many loosely coupled systems. #
#ohac Network congestion hidden in the enterprise by “over provisioning.” Typically less than 10% utilization. #
#ohac But over provisioning not really a viable solution for cluster network. One node can demand huge bandwidth need. #
#ohac The network in the cluster actually assumes resource control similar to an OS. The network is the operating system. #
#ohac Modern network switch is essentially a fault tolerant computer. Dual fans/power supplies. #
#ohac Maybe expand the role / use of this switch to handle this network OS role? #
#ohac Many OS management functions could reside on the switch. Scheduling, DHCP, et al. #
#ohac Huge potential for switch extensibility…but this is a conceptual shift away from the notion of a “transparent” network switch. #
@MissExpatria hello, little girl in reply to MissExpatria #
@MissExpatria could totally see you in that role in reply to MissExpatria #
@glynnfoster only for the elect. Which is a mistake in reply to glynnfoster #
#ohac Some Q&A…. Can you imagine a user process making request of this network OS? Yes, say for routing based on available capacity. #
#ohac Do you see DBs on the switch? No, but can envisage more integration between servers and switches when it makes sense. #
#ohac Nice presentation. Break time. #
#ohac Starting panel discussion – high availability today and tomorrow. #
#ohac Downtime usually ends up in the news. Hard to quantify those [negative] costs. #
#ohac Availability is part of our everyday lives. Users understand and expect availability, but don’t really comprehend how it is achieved. #
#ohac Availability requirements differ for long running jobs vs. transactional work. #
#ohac Spectrum of HA varies based on the service that is expected. What is it you want to be available and what happens if failure? #
#ohac Customers typically do not really understand their availability requirements. Often driven by their budget. #
#ohac IT, admins, staff needs to understand their entire infrastructure to satisfy availability needs. #
#ohac Availability demands change based on whether the goal is service availability or data availability. #
#ohac Lot of emphasis on simplifying the interfaces for the user so availability issues are more obvious to isolate and deal with. #
#ohac But keep plenty of tools available under the hood for the experts who you need for that one catastrophic issue. #
#ohac …and hire/pay experts who can get under the hood and address the catastrophic problem. #
#ohac Providing tools to help the experts find the problem is a product responsibility. #
#ohac Users do not usually end up with entire HA solution from single vendor….rather an aggregation of technologies. #
#ohac In the end, successful HA demands standards, usability, interoperability, and intelligent customers. 🙂 And with that, we break. #
#ohac Nicholas Solter is now speaking about “Project Colorado: A Minimal and Modular HA Cluster for OpenSolaris. #
#ohac Seem to be experiencing some problems recording the Ustream feed. Should still be broadcasting. #
#ohac Ustream feed now being recorded. Needed to save previous recording before could resume recording Nick’s session. #
#ohac OpenHA Cluster bundles bunch of key packages. to get started. #
#ohac Project Colorado minimizes hw requirements by combining COMSTAR, iSCSI, ZFS technologies. #
#ohac These provide robust shared storage without requiring NAS. #
#ohac OpenSolaris VNICs (i.e., crossbow) is used to provide cluster private interconnect (using VNICs instead of physical adapters). #
#ohac Reduces overhead of initially setting up an HA cluster. Can share resources and simplify setup. #
#ohac Cluster membership uses model referred to as weak membership…two-node cluster does not require a quorum device. #
#ohac Places premium on service availability. Good for read-only apps, test cluster, demos, development. #
#ohac Nick and Thurston demoing with laptop on OpenSolaris w/ 2 instances of VirtualBox VMs also running OSOL 2009.06 & OpenHA cluster. #
#ohac They’re clustering the 2 VB OpenSolaris guests. Pretty neat. #
#ohac Welcome, Glynn. #
#ohac OHA cluster also features sw modularization: can install ha-cluster-full (all you need) or ha-cluster-minimal & extend as you like. #
#ohac Shameless plug for the OpenSolaris Bible, which Nick co-authored. 🙂 #
#ohac This is an open project… get involved and provide inputs on where you would like the OpenHA cluster work to go. #
#ohac There is OpenHA talk at CommunityOne, and deep dive sessions on Tuesday at the Intercontinental Hotel. #
#ohac Nick notes easiest way to obviate the problems of weak membership is to build 3 node cluster. #
#ohac There is work underway to integrate MySQL replication. Will be more on this in a session this p.m. #
#ohac getting ready to start the afternoon sessions http://bit.ly/Zu7gI #
#ohac Next session is starting in a few minutes. Sreeram Duvur is going to discuss Glassfish Clustering for Telecommunications. #
#ohac track 2 now streaming on http://bit.ly/Zu7gI
Tirthankar on Getting Started with OHAC #
#ohac Telco and HA are synonymous. It’s taken for granted in most of the world. #
#ohac Need continuous service at scale. #
#ohac Challenges of application layer are many…multiple protocols, load/data partitioning, failover, rolling upgrade, preserving state… #
#ohac track 2 Tirthankar is explaining why you would need VNICs #
#ohac Clustering in telcom also requires integration into fabric of existing applications. #
#ohac track 2 Tirthankar says you should participate in OHAC for the “bragging rights” 🙂 #
#ohac track 2 Prasad Dharmavaram is now talking about Developing Custom Application Data Services on OHAC #
#ohac Ooops. Seem to have lost ustream broadcast. on MySQL / SunCluster session. Working issue. #
#ohac Apologies for usteam video probs. I believe audio is still coming through, so will wait until next break & restart ustream session. #
#ohac track 2 Prasad Dharmavaram is explaining the tools available for building applications in OHAC #
#ohac Track 1 – going to restart ustream now. Hopefully back up after break with video for you. #
#ohac track 2 short break till 2:20pm PT #
#ohac Track 1 – Looks like we’re back online with video. Sorry for those technical issues. #
#ohac Track 1 – Thorsten Frueauf and Ashutosh Tripathi are presenting OpenHA cluster with VirtualBox. #
#ohac track 2 Marcelo Leal on OHAC and AVS to provide High Available services using NON-shared disks http://bit.ly/Zu7gI #
#ohac Track 1 – Using OpenHA and VirtualBox together a great way to achieve low cost, easy to set up dev, training, test system. #
#ohac Track 1 – Requires min 3GB memory, 80 GB disk; dual-core CPU useful, and net connectivity to OpenSolaris repository. #
#ohac Track 1 – Thorsten mimics use of Solaris zones with VirtualBox guests. #
#ohac track 2 Marcelo Leal is giving a live demo on using NON-shared disks with Virtualbox http://bit.ly/Zu7gI #
#ohac Track 1 – Thorsten is in the midst of an OpenHA cluster / VirtualBox demo. #
#ohac Track 1 – Ashutosh is now talking more generally about HA in virtualized environments. #
#ohac track 2 10 minute break #
#ohac Track 1 – Taking another break now. Next up is Steve McKinty discussing HA and business continuity. #
#ohac Track 1 – Steve is getting going…. wants to serve as a reminder of why we care about HA and to discuss OpenHA geo edition. #
#ohac Track 1 – HA is really about building resilience and safeguarding interests of stakeholders. #
#ohac track 2 Jim Walker and Sekhar Lakkapragada are now live talking about Testing OpenSolaris Cloud Clusters http://bit.ly/Zu7gI #
#ohac Track 1 – Steve refers to earlier comments by panelists… most users don’t know their HA needs. This needs to be top-down analysis. #
#ohac Track 1-Need to understand things essential to reestablish service. These drive HA priorities. (What’s most important to look after?) #
#ohac Track 1 – The OpenHA cluster geo edition combines Hot site + replication. Redundant clusters. #
#ohac Track 1 – Steve is wrapping up. I think that does it for track 1 OpenHA Cluster presentations for the day. Thanks for following. #
#ohac Shutting down track 1 ustream broadcast. #
@timbray free deep dives on these 2009.06 topics today and tomorrow at C1! in reply to timbray #
want to find me at C1? I’ll be wearing a black hat, probably with a large feather in it. #
The Clownâ€™s Mask Slips -Times Online http://bit.ly/NZDlp #
today’s C1 OpenSolaris sessions will be streamed live. See http://www.ustream.tv/sun for schedule and to pick your stream. Keynote at 9 PT! #
Dave Douglas talking abt citizen engineers & exercising responsibility #
Over 600 students at #c1 today 87k in osum community #
@lbridenne76 and we’re about to return the visit at FISL! #
@macsun are you here in person? #
Recs on a full-featured twiiter client for iPhone? #
Communities seem to need recognizable leaders. But there’s a risk in relying on a personality to brand your comunity #
@monkchips OTOH there’s a new release of OpenSolaris you can get your hands on right now. #
@monkchips cloud APIs avail at kenai.com/projects/suncloudapis #
#c1 john fowler sez opsol 2009.06 is the bee’s knees #
@Silona see you at the c1 party tonight? Shd intro you to ghc team #
Tired of hearing American execs slaughter Indian names. #
“as network developers we’re a bit GUI-challenged”. Cool anyway: drag and drop network creation #c1 #
@lskrocki what is the twazzup stream using? My gang isn’t represented #
Want to find me at #communityone today? I’m wearing a black Aussie hat #
Learn more about network virtualhzation in today’s session with architect Sunay Tripathi. #communityone #
@darios se non lo bloggate voi, probabilmente non lo sanno. Immagino che i mass media italiani sono focalizzati su Berlusc/Noemi in reply to darios #
Pete Dennis & Brian Leonard introducing what’s new in OpenSolaris 2009.06 in the Managing OpenSolaris Track, esplanade 304. #communityone #
for full coverage of the Managing OpenSolaris track follow @u8out today #
RT @jeffhuber: Learning how to become a ZFS Ninja from the master himself @benr. http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/ #communityone #
Managing OpenSolaris track #communityone live on Ustream.Tv http://bit.ly/J2hWP #
Developing ON OpenSolaris track #communityone live on Ustream.Tv – http://bit.ly/3S0V4 #
Managing OpenSolaris streaming live at http://bit.ly/OU4JO #
@webmink I suspect using the #communityone hashtag would help in reply to webmink #
#communityone #opensolaris Managing OpenSolaris track ~120 people in the room, 30 on the video stream #
if you have questions for the speakers, tweet them with #opensolaris hashtag – specific speaker or track, there are two running! #
@jeffreytaylor are they? we have smarter strategists @Sun. We did invent a nice media platform, though: https://slx.sun.com/1179274388 in reply to jeffreytaylor #
#communityone #opensolaris Becoming an OpenSolaris Power User with Dave Miner, co-author of “The OpenSolaris Bible” #
@altae check http://bit.ly/fxqQq
for the opensolaris tweet stream #
whee! Aaron Newcomb and I will speak at FISL on Using Video to Communicate About Open Source Software #
still need to sign up for tomorrow’s FREE deep dives on OpenSolaris at C1 West? go to http://bit.ly/dJvbx #
producing social media coverage for an event like this is a whole ‘nother job – in addition to the emcee/track organizing job I’m also doing #
@RealShamu that is one happy tiny monkey!! in reply to RealShamu #
@lskrocki I, for one, am thankful she’s wrong! Wild women FTW! in reply to lskrocki #
@pclark Open Storage with ZFS & COMSTAR 5 pm today Esplanade 304 #javaone #cloudcamp in reply to pclark #
Sun execs wandering around Moscone Center in knight costumes (with Kelly N. as the princess) – photos to follow! #
@Silona ummm… party tonight? we’re all running tracks today and tomorrow. Or catch us at the OpenSolaris deep dives at the Intercon tomw in reply to Silona #
thanks to @u8out and @AltaE for live tweeting our OpenSolaris sessions today (and tomorrow) – doing a great job! #
I love bit.ly more every day. Who do I pay for this service? #
RT @tmolini: Sun Crossbow gang #communityone #opensolaris #crossbow http://yfrog.com/67886pj #
RT @dreamofitaly: RT to win 1 of 5 copies of La Bella Lingua by Dianne Hales courtesy @dreamofitaly 5 RTs randomly selected Friday #
coming up: last session of the Managing OpenSolaris track today, Open Storage with ZFS and COMSTAR – mostly demo! #
6 pm – 7 pm OpenSolaris Town Hall in Esplanade 305 #
@Silona there’s no such thing as being too busy for networking, especially when you’re unemployed. ; ) in reply to Silona #
@Silona party tonight 7-9 pm at Moscone, always useful to show your face. Probably useful to turn up and hang around in general. in reply to Silona #
@jeffreytaylor your mum is a pleasure – I will gladly have dinner with her again anytime! in reply to jeffreytaylor #
La Repubblica.it – Ten questions to Berlusconi http://bit.ly/8krLo #
@jeffhuber aw, shucks… #CommunityOne in reply to jeffhuber #
@altae live tweeting the developing in #opensolaris track #communityone #
Chris Armes creating an #opensolaris distro before our very eyes #
No #
#opensolaris Crossbow BoF tonight at Intercon 3rd fl ballroom 530 pm. Come hear from early some adopters about network virtualization #
Twitter is way slow on #javaone coverage. Pretty sure @templedf tweets were done over an hour ago not 45 secs #
@templedf thanks for the live tweets. V useful for those who had to be elsewhere #
#opensolaris sadly, tracks not streamed today but video will eventually be available #
@SaraD I should drop by there and say hi to @schlomo #
one more very full day to get through. I can has sleep tomorrow? #
Family doesn’t get that running around filming engineers doing strange things IS work #
Enjoying the sunshine in Yerba Buena park #
Next team finally arrived. Filmed them doing tech support dancercise #
Did I mention they’re playing the Go Game? #
The next person who tries to talk to me about unions is going to get hit with a tripod #
@medgno If you can recommend a venue that doesn’t habitually rip off its corporate customers #
@lbridenne76 I was allowed to film out in the park. In the intercon hotel I have to pay expensive union labor to SCREW IT UP #
The Marriott BtW had no problem letting me run my own show #
It would be cheaper to fly all our attendees somewhere – anywhere! – else in the world #
@Silona I’m in intercon sutter 5th fl along w sev people u sd meet #
@nonstick perish the thought. Didntbwe fail a long time ago to unionize high tech? #
Back at osug meeting waiting for Go Game results #
@davest the Go Game was great as always! #
@ben will keep it in mind. Is it unionized? ; ) #
Discussing how #opensolaris user groups can collaborate with each other #
@ben sounds as if you need a differnt type of professional services! #
Is it a bad sign that I dreamed about Larry Ellison last night? #
@missbhavens take a deep breath and remember: you’re only going to wear it once #
@nonstick he was an evil hyper Catholic conspiracist a la Da Vinci Code – and I hated that book #
Lots and lots of discussion at osug leaders meeting #
@vdotw suckiness of food options at DIA is a big issue for me – I’m there way too often #
Not enough time for my social media/videoblogging talk to osug. A bit disappointed, a bit relieved #
Lots of good info coming out of this mtg. A lot of smart people are passionate about #opensolaris #
@jeffreytaylor darn that gay conspiracy! #
User groups need leadership succession planning #
#communityone ends for us with an osug dinner at the Crab Houss. Looking forward to NOT getting up at 6am tomw #
Don’t have a book to read, so I’ll play a game on the iPhone to wind down for sleep. Won’t take long #
@jeffreytaylor when is it? #
I am so done for this week. R&R with hubby today, heading north tomw. Intercon jacuzzi sounding about right… #
Enrico won a USB kit at J1. Includes a black plastic box with on/off switch & USB connector w flanges so it can’t actually connect. ??? #
Sex with Ducks http://bit.ly/MkAUn #
leaving San Francisco today for Santa Rosa and Calistoga. Under orders from the boss to have a mud bath. #
@NathanFillion The Barge pub in Milton Keynes – lovely old place, good food, too. in reply to NathanFillion #
where’s a good place for breakfast near the Intercon in San Francisco? Mel’s is NOT the answer. #
tip: a blog comment that links to a porn site or better sex tips – probably spam #
@amandachapel LOL “Troia” in Italian means “whore” #ethics in reply to amandachapel #
@lbridenne76 take a deep breath and think about… sleeping late tomorrow! in reply to lbridenne76 #
generation gap: my daughter’s online presence is mostly on Facebook these days, mine is mostly twitter #
@robbogio thanks, but we’ve got a pretty full schedule already, and have to get back to our flights Sunday noonish. in reply to robbogio #
@amandachapel now, now – don’t give away all our linkbait secrets! in reply to amandachapel #
Massage and mud bath in Calistoga perfect ending to a hard week. Now -wine! #
@glynnfoster now I know what category of gifts to get for you! What are microplanes? #
words you never want to hear from your kid: “What do you know about the Cook County jail?” #
hotel has thoughtfully supplied half-and-half to for the in-room coffee maker – yay! #
at C1, Irish colleague Robert told me Sun’s Dublin office have started videoblogging as a result of my January visit – yay! #
@pizzocalabro umm… lots of Village People imitators in that parade? in reply to pizzocalabro #
an old classmate we hadn’t heard from since graduation popped up this week. Always interesting to learn about life journeys #
LOL! RT @pizzocalabro: No Means No: More candid conversations with library patrons http://bit.ly/YHugx #
By complete chance, the first winery we stop at is owned by a Sun alum. Excellent Syrah-Zin blend #
@dreamofitaly Thanks! Looking forward to reading it. in reply to dreamofitaly #
not impressed with Arrowood’s Rhone tasting, didn’t really like any of the 4. Whereas I liked all 6 tasted at http://bit.ly/MtdCf #
just received email containing a photo of “Italian golf shoes” – black and white. Very spiffy, but… why? No explanation given. #
so !#$%#$%$% tired of all the “offers” United Airlines makes me wade through to just get checked in #

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