There were plenty of Pizzas, Sweet Cakes, Goodies, Giveaways, a stimulating quiz and a lot of fun at JIIT's Open Air Theatre on November 8th 2008 to celebrate being the first Sun Open Source University Meetup (OSUM) in the world to have 100 members, and the birthdays of JIIT Sun Club (now known as JIIT OSUM) as well as NetBeans.

JIIT Sun Club's Birthday Cake	Netbeans Birthday Cake ('Net' licked off)

Attendance for the JIIT OSUM Pizza Party was more than 80 people. It's the first time in life I saw 88 pizzas get eaten up in around 15 minutes. To engage people in stimulating activity along with the celebrations, after the pizza distribution was over, we conducted a fun event called Spoof & Goof (which we started doing at Software Freedom Day). Participants were given clues for a technical term which they had to enact. The guesser and actor, both rewarded with pens, keychains and DVD's from Sun. After that we conducted a tech quiz. We made the contestants sit around in a circle. 7 teams of 4-5 people each contested in the quiz. Questions were not too technical and we tried to ask things which students ought to know or would have learned in college as well. The team consisting of Vipul, Vivek, Arpit from 3rd year and a 2nd year student Shalabh won the quiz. These lucky winners got 1 NetBeans World Tour T-shirt each.

Netbeans World Tour T-shirts given as prizes for the quiz

As soon as the activities got over, everybody came together at the center for the cake-cutting ceremony. We had got 2 cakes to cut, one for celebrating Netbeans' 10th anniversay and the first one for JIIT Sun Club itself. Everyone actually sung the happy birthday song when I cut the cake (which I never expected) :). The atmosphere was very casual and informal and people enjoyed the activities along with eating pizzas, cake and winning prizes. At the end we distributed OpenSolaris Student Packs and other leftover goodies from SFD.

Congratulations once again. Let's keep growing JIIT OSUM.