CampusWorld Newsletter India 2009
We have published CampusWorld newsletter 2009 which has featured all activities from Sun India University program.
You can access this from http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/campusworld.jsp
Posted at 11:39PM May 18, 2009 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Count down has begun for CFF 09
Code For Freedom, the codename CFF is coming to an end for 2008-09 contest. May 15th is the last date to submit the final proposals, hurry up to submit your accepted proposals without waiting for last minute rush. Your proposals should be submitted at http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/codeforfreedom/
Posted at 10:35AM May 14, 2009 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Apps of Steel Contest
The deadline for package submissions to be on the contrib repo is May 8th (only 10 days left!)
The Toshiba laptops as winning prize!
The Software Porters Community can help if you have questions: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/sw-porters/
Posted at 12:23AM Apr 29, 2009 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Environment Awareness Day and Lake Cleaning Activity
As part of WWVW(World Wide Volunteer Week) 2009, we've organized the following activities on April 18th and 19th 2009.
18th April - Environment Awareness Day
19th April - Lake Cleaning activity
I've no words to say thank you to all the parents and children of Akshayanagar
layout participated with spirit and enthusiasm in both the activities
on April 18th and 19th 2009.
On 18th April at 9AM, we've started the
activity with prayer and took a procession in the layout till 11AM. All
the children dressed up with all nature beauty. You should see our kids
participation in this walkathon. Parents also participated with zeal.
After the walkathon, we came back to Kalabhavan and provided the food
to the participants. After that we showed movies related to environment
awareness.
On 19th April 2009 at 7AM, we've started the lake cleaning activity,
around 30-40 members have participated in this activity. You should see
the cleaning activity, its all clean now. Those who are not residing
and those who are residing and missed this opportunity, please do visit
the lake and enjoy. By the success of this activity, all the members
have decided to do it again on coming Sunday April 26th at the same
place. Please do participate and make this a model example of our
activities to other Bangaloreans.
Photos :
http://picasaweb.google.com/ganesh.hiregoudar/EnvironmentAwarenessDayAndLakeCleaningActivity#
Videos :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV-lkR4X4YQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsQug89KQ2k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl_qODrDvJU
Posted at 11:37PM Apr 20, 2009 by G S Hiregoudar in General |
CampusWorld Newsletter
We have published CampusWorld newsletter which has featured all activities from Sun India University program.
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Posted at 09:33PM Jan 11, 2009 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Rewards and Recognition to top performing CAs in India
Its my great pleasure to announce our top performers for their excellent contribution to CA program from July to Dec 2008.
July Awards
Kavya Dharmarajan from MSRIT Bangalore - For organizing CA induction program in Bangalore at her campus.
August Awards
Dwarakanath J from SASTRA University - For conducting JSP evening classes for students and faculty members. He also worked to install Netbeans and VirtualBox in the laptops of all the staff members of School of Computing.
Jay Mahadeokar from SRKNEC, Nagpur - Jay coordinated an innovative concept of Open Source Hut for 3 days from 29th August-1st September in his college. He distributed the latest versions of Netbeans CDs and OpenSolaris to the attendees. The open source hut was participated by more than 500 students.
Alok Chakrabarty from Assam University - For helping in Solaris adoption in Assam University Lab and course and also hiring CAs in different colleges
September Awards
Shivkumar Ganesh from SRM university Chennai - For organizing big events on SFD, taking week long classes on “Fast Track Java”
Abhinav Srivastav and Angad Singh from JIIT University, Noida - For conducting week long activities on SFD and workshops
Anisha Aliar from SNDT, Mumbai - For conducting week long activities on SFD and delivered sessions at 14 engineering colleges
Avinash Gautam from IEET, Baddi - For conducting week long activities on SFD
Karthik Kulkarni and team from BVB, Hubli - For conducting week long activities on SFD and worked with lot of NGOs and engineering colleges
Lalith Suresh from MNIT Jaipur - For conducting week long activities on SFD and also visited lots of schools
Neha Goel from Amity University, Noida - For conducting week long activities on SFD and also helped in organizing CA induction program at her campus
S Karthik from NIT Trichy - For conducting Week long SFD Workshop
Sagarika from Andhra University - For conducting SFD workshop and visited lots of schools in talking about ODF competition
Sanaulla and Ashwin Bhat from NITK Surathkal - For conducting Week long SFD Workshop
Sushant Kumar from SMVDU, Jammu - For conducting week long activities on SFD
Kolli Bharath from DA-IICT, Gandhinagar - For conducting week long activities on SFD and visited many schools.
Vasudha Amrit from MIT, Manipal - For Conducting SFD Workshop and Glassfish talk with attendance more than 700 students put together.
October Awards
Abhishek Uppala from ICFAI, Hyderabad - Conducted lots of technical events at his college tech-fest, helped in organising the CFF workshop and also conducted SFD
Shantanu Kar from Assam University - For the CFF workshop and other two demos on OpenSolaris install fest
Its a great effort folks, keep up the great spirit and enthusiasm in building the OSUM community in your respective campuses and also spread the word of OSUM in different colleges/universities.
Posted at 04:54AM Jan 09, 2009 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Happy New Year 2009
Wish you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2009.
Posted at 03:06AM Dec 31, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in General |
CFF - Date extended
Project proposals for CFF will be accepted till Jan 15th 2009. This is an opportunity to contribute more and win lots of prizes.
Posted at 02:56AM Dec 31, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
OSUM
Press release from EduCause
Sun Microsystems Launches Social Networks to Connect
Global Education Communities
EduConnection.org and OSUM Provide Great Platforms for Knowledge
Sharing and Community Building
ORLANDO,
Fla. October 29, 2008 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced
the launch of two social networking portals especially designed to connect and
empower the global education community. The new EduConnection.org
community serves Sun’s education sector customers, while Open
Source University Meetup (OSUM, pronounced “awesome”) caters to
students interested in open source programming tools and platforms.
EduConnection.org
EduConnection.org
offers a platform for schools to exchange information and best practices that
will help them to mitigate the challenges of purchasing and implementing new
technology in an era of increasing budgetary pressure. It also provides an
opportunity for Sun to directly energize, engage and support the education
community.
Open source
technologies are a cost-effective solution for many educational institutions
today: 51 percent of schools in a recent EDUCAUSE
survey already use them. As the leading contributor of open source
technologies, Sun has expertise in building developer communities to foster
technology innovations. EduConnection.org builds on that developer community
foundation and focuses on solving technology issues.
Open Source University Meetup (OSUM)
Sun's OSUM
is an open social network created for students interested in learning, sharing
and using open source developer tools and platforms. The portal harnesses the
true power of open source by helping students collaborate and use open source
developer tools like MySQL(TM), NetBeans(TM), Java(TM), GlassFish(TM),
OpenSPARC(TM), OpenSolaris(TM) and more. Students can also use OSUM to connect
in person through on-campus meetups and events coordinated by the network of
more than 500 Sun Campus Ambassadors. Within the first two months of the
launch, there are already 10,000 members in the OSUM community.
“Sun
knows that communities drive innovation, especially among educators and
researchers. To this end, we created EduConnection.org and OSUM to encourage
conversations and information sharing among all of our stakeholders, from
students to educators,” said Joe Hartley, vice president, global
education, government and healthcare, Sun Microsystems. “At EDUCAUSE
2008, we're demonstrating how our open source, Web 2.0 and other leading
technologies have already impacted the education community. With new forums
like EduConnection.org and OSUM, our community-focused approach will help shape
the digital campus today, while also priming the innovators of tomorrow.”
At EDUCAUSE,
Sun is also showcasing products and solutions for the education community
including:
- MySQL for Education – How the open source
MySQL database is used on campus, both for student-facing and
administrative applications.
- Immersive Education – Sun's free and open
source virtual classroom software, Project Wonderland. For more
information visit the Sun
Immersion Special Interest Group.
- Virtualization Solutions – Sun(TM) xVM VirtualBox(TM),
Sun's free and open source desktop virtualization platform, running on x64
servers.
- Digital Campus Infrastructure – Sun's
technology for the digital campus, including Identity Management,
SOA/JavaCAPS, Sun(TM) xVM Ops Center, the Solaris(TM) OS.
- Digital Libraries, Repositories and Preservation
Archiving – Sun's efforts to help schools build and benchmark
digital libraries to preserve historical data. For more information visit
the Sun
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group.
Please visit
Sun's booth at EDUCAUSE 2008, #601, and more information is available at www.sun.com/education.
About Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com
Posted at 09:01PM Oct 29, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Code For Freedom 2008
On 20th September, 2008, the Software Freedom Day, we announced the
second edition of the Code For Freedom (CFF) contest for 2008.
This year, we have a new format which is designed to generate
enthusiasm for open source software technology
and to encourage academic developers to contribute
software applications that demonstrate use and adoption of various Sun
open source
technologies. The contest is open to any college student
in India and provides many exciting prizes. Students are required to
submit complete project implementations that use at least two Sun open
source technologies and are developed using either Netbeans or Sun
Studio. For more details, please visit http://in.sun.com/codeforfreedom.
Posted at 11:54PM Sep 23, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Software Freedom Day 2008
Sun is one of the main sponsor of Software Freedom Day 2008(http://softwarefreedomday.org). As part of campus ambassadors, we've planned for many more activities in India and rest of the world.
Stay tuned...
Posted at 10:54PM Aug 21, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in General |
CampusWorld Newsletter updates
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Posted at 11:25PM Aug 13, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
CampusWorld NewsLetter
CampusWorld NewsLetter for India for March to June 2008 has been released.
Posted at 04:29AM Jun 09, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Rewards and recognition to top performing CAs in India
Its my great pleasure to announce our top performers for their excellent
contribution to CA program.
February Awards
Krithika from TCE organized a Sun GURU program, conducted the TECH UTHSAV event at her campus, and also gave a presentation on project Indiana and Sun Spot.
March Awards
Chinmayi from NIE conducted a HACKATHON event on Solaris and organized LIBRE '08 event at her campus. She talked about OpenSolaris and Sun technologies at SJCE college in Mysore.
Ankit Srivastav from DA-IICT organized a tech demo as part of the BITs Pilani techfest in Durpal. In addition, he initiated the Open Source Grand Challenge
event.
Angad Singh from JIIT completed the Robocontrol project and conducted series of tech demos.
Kumar Bipallav from SRM organized a SUN university day and conducted several tech demos.
Parantap from MIT, Manipal organized the CORONA event and conducted a series of tech demos on NetBeans, OpenSolaris and Sun Spot. He conducted a presentation on Project Wonderland.
April Awards
Kumar Abhishek from SASTRA conducted the Sun University Day and also conducted a test drive of the OpenSolaris release candidate 0.
Anand from RVCE gave presentations on Java Derby and Sun Studio as part the LIBRE event at NIE, Mysore. He successfully completed a project on the
Bluetooth stack.
Shampavman from JSS, Bangalore organized presentations on NetBeans, Sun Spot, OpenSolaris and the CORONA event.
Nishank Gupta organized the Sun University Day in his campus.
Sidharth Wadhera from RKNEC presented a tech demo to the Indian Army and also completed an innovative Mobile Secure project.
Abhishek Kumar from BITS, Pilani Goa Campus has created three clubs: Sun Java Club, Sun SPOT enthusiasts club, and an Open Solaris Club.
May Awards
Sushant Kumar and team from SMVDU, Jammu and Kashmir, organized week long activities as part of CORONA event. Sushant regularly conducts classes on Java and NetBeans to students at his university.
Its a great effort folks, keep up the great spirit and enthusiasm in building the open source community.
Posted at 04:15AM Jun 03, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
netbeans Fun Tech Quiz
This is another opportunity to all the developers in India to participate and win lots of prizes. Be part of netbeans Fun Tech Quiz, http://www.netbeans.org/quiz
Posted at 02:44AM Apr 30, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |