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At the suggestion of Matt Finch I decided to read up on a new “product” (not really) that Sun should be rolling out soon.  I’ve spent quite a bit of time reading up and I’m fairly confident with the material available to us mere mortals (I’m sure all of the really good stuff is hidden away on the part of the TWiki that requires special permissions that I don’t have).  I’ve had everything up and running on a lab box for the past few days and I expect to have a few of the more advanced things played around with this evening/tomorrow at work.

I’ve had quite a bit of help from Mick Mullins, who works in the VSP group (whatever that is/they do) adjoining our office area, which has been great.  I spoke to Paul about doing a TOI (Transfer Of Information—a Sun term I told myself I’d never use when I first heard it) to Chris, Anton, James and Liam my co-workery people.  This got expanded a bit to include a couple more people (I think David and William will be coming along) and then today I sent out an email to (as far as I can tell) most of the engineers at Guillemont Park (that’s three whole buildings), inviting them to come along.

The room I’ve got booked out is good to seat about ten people, so I have a feeling a larger room may be required, if I can get one.

I’m looking forward to doing this… it’s going to be pretty hard work for a bunch of reasons: there are some areas that I’ve simply not managed to get answers for yet; “public” speaking really isn’t my thing; and if just one engineer turns up (Mick Mullins has already told me he’ll be coming, and I expect Matt Finch will turn up) I’m going to be talking to people who know far more than I do about a lot of the technologies that make up the new “product”.  But where I have the edge is the fact that I wrote the slides and I know (hopefully) specifically how they work and exactly what they do that’s of use to their function.

Anyway, time to do a little more reading-up and figuring out how to get those “advanced” (they’re not really) things working in time for Wednesday.
Damn, it’s really hard talking about something you can’t name ;)

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