o Overview
o Attendance Metrics
o University Visits
Overview
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From March 1 to March 15, we have accomplished the Sun Tech Days in China. Specifically, in universities, we have been top universities at Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and ShenYang. Totally, we have speaked to 1650 students in 2 weeks and the feedbacks are much better than our expectations.
The mindset we have promote during University Tech Days include:
o Solaris 10
o OpenSolaris
o Java and Netbeans
o Parallel computing (CMT, Grid) and Sun Studio
The detailed presentations of the University Tech Days are list on SDN.
The outside PR on our Tech Days (Featured Peking University Tech Day) at China's biggest developer community - CSDN, and the popular tech website - 51CTO.com.
Attendance Metrics
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The attendance metrics of the overall University Tech Days are as follows:
Peking University: A total number of 329 students and professors attended the show (we distributed access badge at the entrance to each attendee). 221 of them fill in our sign in sheet with their name, major, phone number, and email address. 153 of them stay till the end of the day and returned the surveys. All of the attendees were registered as SDN China members.
Tsinghua University: A total number of 490 students and professors attended the show (we distributed access badge at the entrance to each attendee). 409 of them fill in our sign in sheet with their name, major, phone number, and email address. 238 of them stayed till the end of the day and returned the surveys. All of the attendees were registered as SDN China members. Two professors (Prof. Xiang Yong, Prof. Chen Yu) brought their OS classes to our show with 180 students. They were extremely interested in our introduction to OpenSolaris, and Liang Chen's talk on Parallel Computing.
Tongji University: A total number of 156 developers attended the show. 156 of them fill in our sign in sheet with their name, major, phone number, and email address. 139 of them stayed till the end of the day and returned the surveys. All of the attendees were registered as SDN China members.
South China Technology University: Around 340 people attended the meeting, 316 of them filled out the sign in sheet with their name, major, phone number, and email address. Around 200 people hanged on till the end of the day and 117 surveys were collected.
Northeast University: A total number of 335 developers and students attended the show. 306 of them signed in. 206 surveys were collected after the show. Interesting thing is that we have beat heavily IBM's eclipse seminar in the evening which happens immediately after our Netbeans code camp at that afternoon.
University visits
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During the trip, I have visited the following universities in the 4 cities.
Beijing:
Peking University
Tsinghua University
At Peking University, we have visited Prof. Chen and discussed about the opportunities of further collaboration.
Shanghai:
Shanghai JiaoTong University
Fudan University
Tongji University
At SJTU, I have encountered the prestige professional on Operating System, Prof. You Jiyuan. His knowledge and broader relationship impressed me much. He was pretty interested in helping to integrate OpenSolaris into the OS courses, as he said, he has taught OS in the same style for decades of years. Certainly, the talk w/ Prof. Chen Ying was also important to schedule the forthcoming course workshop at SJTU.
Of all professors in Shanghai, what impressed me much is Prof. Zhang Liang from Fudan University and his knowledge in Solaris and advises to promote OpenSolaris in the universities. He has proposed lots of comments on how to guide the instructors and students to use OpenSolaris gradually.
Guangzhou:
South China Technology University
Zhongshan University
The talk w/ Prof. Wu Yimin was also important to schedule the forthcoming course workshop in April at SCTU.
Prof. Guo Songshan from Zhongshan University is pretty interested in teaching OpenSolaris/Solaris curriculum in his courses, he copied all the documents I bring w/ to his desktop and go through one by one to make sure he could take full use of them.
Shenyang:
Northeast University
Neusoft
The teachers from NEU are very warm-hearted. Prof. Wang Dalin, Prof. Bao Yubin, Prof. Yu Ge, Prof. Lin and I have a short seminar on how to integrate the OpenSolaris into the curriculum. During the course, I have demo the DTrace course toolkit, MDB tools. and browse the OpenSolaris website, and share with them the documents.
As well, the talk w/ the students leads in NEU is really exciting. We have a lot of things in common to promote the Software technology on campus. They are very welcome to our forthcoming activities on Open Technologies like OpenSolaris, Netbeans and Java.
