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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Ideas for Mentoring Activities 2.1 Weekend Camps 2.2 Install Fests 2.3 Basic Tutorial Blog and Wiki Entries 2.4 Assistance with Training and Certification 2.5 Drop-Box for Ideas 3 Groups 4 Mentee requirements 4.1 Technical documentation 4.2 Kernel development 4.3 Driver writing 4.4 Marketing

Introduction

This is the index wiki page for the Open Solaris Mentoring project.

Ideas for Mentoring Activities

Weekend Camps

Camps at campuses to have semi-structures learning activities. These would include invitations to talk by folks who are influential in the Solaris developer community.

Install Fests

Get together with users to install Solaris on machines.

Basic Tutorial Blog and Wiki Entries

Develop blog entries with basic Solaris tutorials.

Some existing content:

• OpenSolaris Metablog

Assistance with Training and Certification

Programs to assist students in acquiring basic Solaris certifications.

Drop-Box for Ideas

Create a web drop box for ideas, perhaps as simple as creating a wiki page here for that purpose or asking folks to edit this section

• idea 1
• idea 2

Groups

• Open Solaris Group on Facebook
• User Groups Lists at OpenSolaris
• Google Groups search "OpenSolaris"
• comp.unix.solaris on Google Groups
• OpenSolaris User's Group Indonesia
• Solaris 10/Open Solaris (Spanish)
• Sydney Open Solaris Users Group
• OpenSolaris en español

Mentee requirements

Technical documentation

Kernel development

Driver writing

Marketing