Corona

Whew!

Campus ambassadors from Bangalore (& our friend Nitin from NIT, Suratkal) conducted a hands on event 'Corona' today.

We had limited seating, so registered 80 participants from various colleges/universities.

Corona started off with an introductory talk on the OpenSolaris community (I used the slides by Tim Foster). This was followed by a talk on Sun Studio 12 and it great features.

CA head for India, Ganesh, attended the first talk, and we has pictures taken. I'd like to mention now that he was the one who encouraged us CAs to come up with Corona. Thanks Ganesh!

Finally, Corona concluded with a hands on session on Java ME with Netbeans. You could hear all the "Wow"s and the *sigh*s when Anand dragged forms over the Java ME forms!

In between, we conducted a programming contest on C, and another one on Java ME. We gave our 4 USB sticks to the winners. All of the 70 who attended walked away with the SXDE DVDs (see pic below!), Netbeans CDs and the SUN pens.

The enthusiastic crowd at corona!..

 

.. And the ambassadors actively promoting temple of the sun ;) 

(Nitin, Pradeep, Anand, Jayanth, Yours truly, Trisha, Pooja and Ankita)