[csw-maintainers] OpenCSW Summercamp 2011 in Kiel summary

[Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński]

Hello maintainers,

Here's a quick summary of the Summarcamp held last weekend in Kiel, Germany.

The attendees were, in no particular order:

Dagobert Michelsen, Peter Bonivart, Maciej Bliziński, Ihsan Dogan,
Rafael Ostertag, Sebastian Kayser, Jörg Schilling

Topics and conclusions are kept in the meeting minutes, links are
below.  Here's couple of highlights:

- we will be dropping Solaris 9 support, meaning that it goes from
full support to best effort
- we'll build for sparcv8+ and pentium_pro by default on Solaris 10
- catalogs will be marked using their release names; upon an upgrade
from one release to another, pkgutil will issue an additional warning
and a confirmation dialog. It will play a major role in the next
stable release.

Photo: http://t.co/dIFXcdP4

The Summercamp was not just about meetings and minutes.  We also had
fun!  We visited the computer museum in Kiel, which covers years 1940
to 2000, and features an extensive and very interesting collection of
computer hardware.  In the media dome, the screen covered your whole
field of vision.  We watched a show which mixed U2 music with computer
generated graphics.  We also watched an animation of the Kiel city
hall becoming a rocket, flying off into space, and landing next to the
computer museum.  Youtube has a 3D version of that clip.

Flying Kiel city hall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPvgjzgINg0

Here are links to the meeting minutes:
Friday notes: http://t.co/zHOxWmzT
Saturday notes: http://t.co/hkEDVOg1
Sunday notes: http://t.co/AZeElR1L

Many thanks go to Dagobert and Baltic Online for hosting the Summercamp!

Maciej