Winners Are Announced!

Sun Announces Winners of OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards

Some of our winners were honored in person at the keynote address at Sun Tech Days in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 29 September. One had this reaction:

It was a very, very nice the ceremony in Sun Tech Days!! Really great! I will put my checks on the wall... ;-)
[Winners received poster-sized replicas of their checks.]

Listen to interviews with winners: Sun Honors Community Awards Winners

OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards - Contest Winners

For the contest portion of the OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Program, we received entries that are complete distributions, tools that will be useful to many other community members, documentation, and an art entry. See Contest Entries. You can download and try these entries yourself. Some of them already are OpenSolaris projects, and others might become projects and continue development on OpenSolaris.org.

In June, 2005, Sun Microsystems took the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) movement by surprise when they published the source code of Solaris - long considered the company's crown jewel - whose technical features, legendary stability and standards compliance is the "gold standard" for other Operating Systems (developers) to emulate. Initially there was a lot of scepticism and many predicted that Sun would never open up the latest/greatest technical gems like the ZFS file system and DTrace. The sceptics were proven wrong - and the OpenSolaris project is now over 3 years old, has a healthy and growing user community and continues to gain mind share. I am convinced that in the future, when a timeline depicting the history of computing is drawn, that the launch of OpenSolaris will be seen as a major "tick" on that timeline and will be viewed as the most significant event for 2005 and a precursor to the runaway success of the F/OSS revolution.
- Grand Prize Winner Al Hopper

Undergraduate Student Research Grant Recipients

For the student grants portion of the awards program, we received some fine proposals including DVD authoring software and an image storage and retrieval application. See Grant Proposals. The OpenSolaris Undergraduate Student Research Grant Program is intended to build working relationships between the OpenSolaris community and colleges, faculty, and students.

Community Members: If you are particularly interested in any of these projects, please post a note to the awards-program discussion forum. We need community members to get involved with these students, including to review monthly progress reports.

Posted at 12:23AM Oct 01, 2008 by alta in OpenSolaris  |  Comments[0]