News From Sun Campus Ambassadors Worldwide
Sun's Campus Ambassador program has been mentioned in some recent publications. Sylvain Duloutre points to a recent publication by ambassador Julien Canquelain of Institut Nationale des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in Lyon, France, in the July edition of INSA's magazine. Sun's OpenSolaris evangelist Jim Grisanzio encountered many students, including some campus ambassadors, at both Beijing Jiaotong University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China.
Among the award winners for Sun's 2008 Open Source Community Innovation Awards are campus ambassadors Shampavman Chengeri and Ricardo Ayres Severo for OpenSolaris. A podcast is available on the awards page, under the heading "Campus Ambassadors & Academic Winners."
Campus ambassadors' reports about the events they hosted to celebrate the spirit of open source at Software Freedom Day (SFD) are still coming in. Here are a few in English:
- Shan Wang, GuangDong University of Foreign Studies, China
- Vitorio Faria Correa Sassi, Porto Alegre, Brazil; more SFD events here
- Souvik Dasgupta, Panjab University, India; additional photos here
- Avinash Joshi, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- Qi Cao, Wuhan University, China
- Aakriti Agarwal, NTU
- Sushant Kumar, SMVD University
- Shashank Shekhar
- Rohendra Singh
- Mohammed Sanaulla, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India
- K.S. Chan, City University of Hong Kong
- Weipeng Zhong, Shantou University
- Ezequiel Singer, Argentina
Many more SFD reports are available in Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, and other languages. Keep up with Sun's campus ambassadors by reading their blog postings.
Learn more about Sun's offerings for college and university students: internships, the Campus Ambassador program, the Sun Academic Initiative program, and Sun's portal for student developers.
Posted at 10:15AM Sep 30, 2008
by GD in Students |
I'm a student of Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. We like to join this "Sun Campus Ambassadors Worldwide" program. Because mostly we are working with Java language. please guide me to we join this.
thanks
Posted by Nayana Adassuriya on November 07, 2008 at 08:44 PM PST #
You can read about the campus ambassador program at http://developers.sun.com/students/campus_ambassadors.jsp , Nayana. Have you considered starting an Open-Source University Meet-up (OSUM) club at your school? These groups educate members about the latest open-source technologies, including Java, in a fun and engaging way. Learn more about OSUM at http://developers.sun.com/students/osum/index.jsp .
Posted by GD on November 10, 2008 at 08:11 AM PST #