The life of a CA Copenhagen Campus Connection

On May 5th the CommunityOne conference is taking place in connection with this year JavaOne in San Fransisco (May 6th - 9th).

I just had a peak through the program, and it looks very interesting! With track descriptions such as Open Source, Next generation Web and Cool Stuff, just to name a few, it sounds like people are in for a treat. Here's some of the talks that caught my eye:

• Project Darkstar Hands-on-Lab
• NASA World Wind BoF
  
• Mapping Mars, about JMARS from Arizona State University
  
• Future Challenges for Open Source and Java™ Technology by Simon Phipps of course

They've also done something else, which I consider cool. They made a Rock Star Wall of Fame for their best speakers. The conference participants then nominate the speakers they found most intertaining and interesting! A nice way of giving credit to the speakers.

Today I gave two SunSPOT talks at Suns headquarter in Nærum. It was IT-night - an annual event where 100+ Danish IT companies open their doors for high school students and tell them about the company profile and what kind of work they're doing. I was asked to do a presentation as Campus Ambassador. Two busses was coming by Sun this night with approx. 40 students in all. The talk took place in the Sun cafeteria, where Mette had arranged for some great food - sticks 'n sushi and feel good drinks, to kick off the event in the right spirit.

We started off by playing a song that the employees in Sun Denmark had recorded and then Carsten told them about working at Sun Denmark. Then I took over and told them about SunSPOTs and let them play with them (showed demos) and took them apart and talked about different former and current sensor network applications fx.

• Great Duck Island
• ZebraNet
• Volcano monitoring in Ecuador and
• Investigating Permafrost in the Swiss Alps

They were very enthusiastic about it all and asked loads of questions. Unfortunately we only had 45 minutes with each group, so the time schedule was REALLY tight. We ended off by giving away 2 ipod shuffles to persons in each group, if they could answer 2 questions with information from the talk.

I thought I had brought plenty of free CDs with OpenSolaris StarterKits and NetBeans 6 - but they were practically gone afterwards! Anyway it was a good event.