Sun recently launched two efforts to connect education communities around the world. The first is Educonnection.org for Sun's customers in the education sector and the second one, OSUM is a growing Ning community for students into open source programming tools and platforms. OSUM already has over 16,000 members, how cool is that?
Educonnection is a great tool for schools and will help with the challenges of adoptiong new technology in tough economic times. OSUM's objective its to harnesses the true power of open source by helping students collaborate and use open source developer tools like MySQL, NetBeans, Java, GlassFish, OpenSPARC, OpenSolaris and more. Both of these communities allow you to network, meet new tech focused peers, expand your resources and help spread the message of open source and collaboration.
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