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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  |