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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 |
CampusWorld Newsletter
We have published CampusWorld newsletter which has featured all activities from Sun India University program.
Download : CampusWorld
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 |
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:
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 |
CampusWorld Newsletter updates
You can find the latest CampusWorld Newsletter from http://in.sun.com/communities/univ/campusworld.jsp
and also archives also available in this URL.
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 |
SGC - Sun Grand Challenge Contest
<<mail from Ankit, campus ambassador DA IICT Gandhinagar>>
The contest has started from 20th Feb, 2008 and can be
participated till 20th March, 2008. It covers 10 Sun technologies with 3
days on each technology. This is online contest.
Each technology will have three phases:
1. Introduction Phase - 1st Day
2. Coding Phase - 2nd and 3rd Day
3. Contribution Phase - Open for whole month from 20th Feb to 20th March
This contest is a national platform to promote open source technologies
and to acknowledge the leaders in it.
20 colleges from all over India have already taken part in this contest.
I now propose to expand it to your college as well. I am sure the
system of lectures and demos would have been tried to promote
technologies. It takes time to get across and attain attention making it
less effective.
So Sun Grand Challenge is the other system - a mode of playing and winning
which gives an incentive to each student to participate. It also happens
to be the first event in which any student of any college can participate
due to its easy and simple appeal. It does not demand time or experience
from an individual to participate.
Campus Ambassadors can use it to make a solid base of open source
awareness in their respective colleges. They just need to publicize the
event and form an evaluation team which will check the submissions from
their college and give us the best entry. The best entry of each college
will then be judged by us to declare the overall stage winner.
Sun Grand Challenge is not an 'Open for All' contest. This is for making a
channel of systematic organization and coordination among participating
colleges.
For more details on the contest, please go through the below mentioned URL:
http://sunclub.daiict.ac.in
Posted at 02:55AM Mar 05, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
CFF winners awarded at Sun Tech Days 2008
Ian Murdok, VP community and developer marketing and K Nageshwara Rao, Director and acting site lead India Engineering Center distributed the prizes to the winners.
“Code For Freedom” is a Unique contest for students which was launched in India on India' s independence day 15th August 2007 and was open till 14th Feb 2008.
This encouraged students in any university in India to contribute code in 5 Open Source technologies namely Open Solaris. NetBeans, Apache Derby, Open Portal and Glassfish.
This contest attracted more than 2500 students who registered.
A total of 179 contributions were made.
119 contributions were made to Solaris
45 contributions were made to NetBeans
13 contributions were made to Apache Derby
2 contributions were made to Open Portal.
Three teams of students who contributed the most significant contributions to the open technologies are being awarded laptops for their contributions.
The NetBeans category of the Code for
freedom contest threw a unique challenge to students in India.
NetBeans is a world class IDE used by thousands of developers around
the world and has a high standard of code and quality. To contribute
something to NetBeans which would be useful to experienced developers
was a tough proposition in front of students. Angad Singh rose to the
challenge splendidly. His "Regular Expressions NetBeans module"
helps NetBeans users with understanding and composing regular
expressions, a power tool in programming. It is a fine example of a
contribution useful to the NetBeans users, right from novices to
experienced hackers.
Angad's approach in implementing the plugin
deserves applause. He used the NetBeans mailing lists effectively to
gather input from NetBeans users and developers and has been smart in
using existing open source utilities to achieve his end goal, instead
of re-inventing the wheel. Angad's plugin has also been featured on
NetBeans TV.
We would like to invite Angad Singh from the Jaypee Institute of Information and technology to the stage to receive his prize.
We would like to invite Ashwin Bhat and Balaji Rao from NITK Surathkal to come to the stage and receive their prize
Avinash and Rishi were determined to
win the Grand Prize of Code For Freedom.
They started with simple
bug fixes which fascinated them. They went on to submit a whole
bunch of contributions for some difficult bugs too. Together,
they submitted 26 contributions, which is the highest number of bugs
contributed to Code for freedom by any team.
We would like to invite Avinash Joshi and Rishi Nair from Amritha Vishva Vidyapetham, Amrithapuri to come to the stage and receive their prize
Last but not the least we would like to announce the prize for the University College whose students had the maximum number of contributions to Code for freedom. Amritha Vishva Vidyapeetham, Amrithapuri wins this prize with more than 100 contributions to the contest. A lot of passion in this contest came from Prof Vipin Pavithran whose passion for Open source is visible in this great number of contributions.
We would like to Invite Dr Balakrishnan Sankar, Associate dean and Prof. Vipin Pavithran from Amritha Vishva Vidyapeetham, Amrithapuri to come and receive the prize. Their University will soon receive Sun equipment worth Rs 1 Lakh.
We would also like to announce that the 28 students have won the prize for 3 or significant contributions to Code for freedom. They will be receiving their iPod shuffles my mail soon.
The 10 early-bird contributors will also be receiving their memory stick, certificate of appreciation and a Sun T-shirt by mail.
All contributors will be receiving a certificate of appreciation and a Sun T-shirt by mail too.
Sun India university core team is very proud of this success and planning to launch this contest in upcoming academic year as well.
Also, I would like each one of you guys can contribute and win a big bucks from Sun.The 1,000, 000$ awards program is here. Be sure to let the students in your universities know.
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080129.2.xml
Posted at 11:41PM Feb 28, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu |
Code For Freedom (CFF) contributions
We had a code for freedom contest and it was closed on Feb 14th.We have received the following submissions from the university students in India.
OpenSolaris - 119
NetBeans - 45
Derby - 13
OpenPortal -2
GlassFish - 3 are working towards completion.
It was a great team effort from IEC engineers who helped students to make this happen.
Especially Jayakar Kini from solaris and Rohan Ranade from netbeans didn't sleep properly from last few weeks as they were busy in answering the queries to students and helping to fix the bugs in opensource community.
Prof. Vipin from Amrita university, Kollam campus helped his students to contribute more to opensource community.
CFF is the way to innovation.
Please look at one million innovation award for opensource community and start contributing for the same.
Posted at 11:24PM Feb 17, 2008 by G S Hiregoudar in India Edu | Comments[2]