Dutch Campus Ambassador Clemens Schulz

On 18th November 2009 I held the introduction presentation about Sun Microsystems OSUM and SAI program at the biggest technical related university in the Netherlands, TU Delft.

Faculty, where the presentation has been held at.

The presentation was scheduled for 5:05 PM and quite a lot of people attended this presentation.

This event has been planned by the OSUM leader of TU Delft Varundev Kashimath and myself and we prepared a presentation, which show all pros of attending OSUM and SAI and how these programs can be a big help for the students.

The room where Varundev and me held the presentation at.

For all the students, who wants to view the presentation again: Please ask Varundev Kashimath about getting the slides.

I also distributed a lot of Sun Microsystems software data sheets, pens, NetBeans 6.7.1 DVDs and OpenSolaris 2009.06 DVDs.

Free pens, software data sheets, NetBeans DVDs and OpenSolaris DVDs

I really want to thank Varundev Kashimath, who made this possible and I really hope we can build a vibrating community at TU Delft with a lot of students and quite a lot open source software projects.

Today I was attending the Open Dag with a stand to inform our students about OSUM and SAI. I distributed OpenSolaris CDs, data sheets, pens and a lot more.

Fontys Venlo OSUM group stand in the IT faculty at Open Dag 7th November 2009

More than 50 people visited the stand and the Fontys Venlo OSUM group got 19% more members and we only need 7 people more to break the 100-member-wall.

"Register here for OSUM" - The registration computer at the OSUM stand, which has been used by 17 students to get registered at the OSUM portal.

The highlight of this event was a drawing, which has been attended by more than 50 people. The prizes were two 16GB Kingston USB storage drives and a 15 Euro iTunes card for buying apps and music. The winners are:

1. Tim Verhaegh (USB storage drive)
2. Ferd van Odenhoven (USB storage drive)
3. Michael Klingen (iTunes card)

The winner of the drawing: (from left) Michael Klingen, Fern van Odenhove - Tim Verhaegh is not shown on the photo

Congratulationsto the winner.

In my eyes this event was a great success and I really hope that some more people I invited at the Open Dag event will accept the invitation to OSUM to get 100 members in Fontys Venlo OSUM group.

Today I got my CA Recognition for Q1. This means that I'm the Campus Ambassador of the quarter one in the FY2010 for the whole continent of Europe.

The official statement from my Manager was:

I also want to think everybody, who made this possible! I really hope to get this nice award in the next quarter again and I will try to do my best!

Thanks!

Today I got the permission to organize a new OSUM event at 'Open Dag' on 7th November at Fontys Venlo campus.

The last Open Dag was a great success and this time I will enter the event with even more specials like a drawing, a lot of nice information materials and give aways!

You will find more details on the Open Dag 2009/11 after the 7th November here.

For everybody who wants to join me:
Come visit the OSUM stand in front of room W1 1.87 at Fontys Venlo campus. From 10:00 to 14:30.

Since 22th October one of my OSUM blog entries is linked to the homepage of Sun Developer Network (http://developers.sun.com).

This is a test, which should show how good your open source software knowledge is. If you know the answer of the question, please reply directly at the OSUM group portal.

The entries on SDN will change every week, so I made a screenshot of it, if it isn't still available to you. Check this out:

Thanks to everybody who made this possible and I really hope to get another nice entry in the list of SDN experts!

On 25th September I will celebrate the Software Freedom Day 2009 at Fontys Hogeschool Venlo. I planned a stand in the ICT-building with two computers, and an separate OSUM registration computer. There will also be a lot of give-aways and information material about open source and free software.

I will distribute all kinds of free and open source software like OpenSolaris, VirtualBox, OpenOffice, different Linux distributions and many many more.

For this event I also planned a drawing. Everybody who is member of the OSUM Fontys Venlo club can enter this drawing, since only Fontys Venlo students will attend this event and that's a pretty good chance to combine both: OSUM and SFD. More details on the drawing can be found on the Fontys OSUM group website.

One poster and a flyer has also been created by myself for this event. The post helps me to promote the event before it began and the flyer shows all interested attendees some open source and free software alternatives for their proprietary software products!

The poster is available here:

And the flyer about open source and free alternatives can be found here:

I really hope many students and interested people will attend this event! I will post a summary about the SFD2009 after the event ended (incl. the winner of the drawing).

From Monday evening until this morning I have been in Zurich, due to visit the Java developer conference Jazoon 2009 for Sun Microsystems, which has been hold at Arena Filmcity - Zurich Sihlcity. I was searching for new topics, that could be interesting for my job and I found a lot of new stuff and friends.

Me at Jazoon 2009 entrace

On Monday I had a train trip from Moenchengladbach to Zurich. On the next day there was the first day of Jazoon 2009. At the entrace I got my batch and a couple of other cool stuff from Jazoon. The first talk was a keynode for all Jazoon visitors from James Gosling (I guess everybody of you knows who he is - or better: You should do so!) and the organizator Christian Frei. The keynode was about what Java was in the past and what it is in the present. All over the day I visit a few other pretty interesting talks about several other topics (JEE, Spring, RIA, Testing, etc.). This first very cool day ended with a little trip to the oldcity of Zurich.

The second day began with a keynode from Danny Coward (also Sun Microsystems), who talked about new features in Suns JDK 7, which is coming soon. Later on that day I visited some more interesting talks on Web Services, AJAX, Domain Driven Design, Metro, JavaFX, etc.). After the regulary talkes there was a little contenst so called 'Jazoon Rookies', where young speakers can speak to the audience and win a prize. In the final round there has been only three speakers left (also Deni Lukmanul Hakim from Sun Microsystems). After the Rookies there was a party at the conference with nice music, lot of drinks and many very nice people. I took the time to talk to some other employees from Sun Microsystems and also from other companies.)

At the third and last day I visited some more talks about Android development, JavaFX, Agile software and the OpenJDK and what the new version of it will bring us. The closing keynode after all these talks has been held by Linda Cureton, CIO at NASA. After that talk three pretty nice days in Zurich ended for me and I rote back to Moenchengladbach, by train.

On all these days I also met one Ex-Campus Ambassador and now Sun speaker (Jose Maria Silveira Neto), whos has also held a talk about JavaFX at Jazoon 2009.

Jose and me at Jazoon 2009

Thanks to Brigitte Aeschlimann, who made this possible to me (sent me the ticket for Jazoon 2009!). I really hope to visit Jazoon in 2010 again. Thanks also to all the other Sunnies I met in Zurich.

From 22nd to 25th June I will attend the Jazoon 2009 (One of the biggest Java Technology converences in Europe and in the world) as an representator of Suns student community and I really hope to get some new topics for new presentations in the next school year there and to build good relationships to other persons from Sun Microsystems.

Thanks to Brigitte Aeschlimann and Nicole Tanner for organizing me a ticket at Jazoon 2009!

Homepage from this event: http://www.jazoon.com

My report about this event will be posted here after the event ended!