Students part of GFGC community program

In this blog, I am excited to give the details about a relation of Students with GlassFish Project. It is specifically about Students part of the GlassFish Quality Community (GFQC) [1].

The program is all about connecting, engaging and mentoring of Students to the GlassFish projects [2]. Under this program, students are going to develop the applications on top of GlassFish and contribute the application code along with test code with the help of mentors from Sun Engineers. Even though this program is just started (about a month ago), we have seen the students interest for GlassFish projects.  I feel very excited with this!

As part of the program, we have a list of GlassFish projects that students can work.  The projects proposals are mainly submitted by the Sun engineers. The students are being connected via different channels - visits to universities, contacting friends & Alumni, contacting ambassadors etc. Once students interested in any of the projects, then mentor and student relationship established. The process is outlined at [3].

At JavaOne 2008, Sun staff met SJSU and  SFSU professors on GlassFish and java.net and Mural projects. Sandeep catpured notes and nice photos at blog [4].

Some of the universities that we are already have students working on GlassFish Projects [2]

•  US Universities: San Jose  State University (SJSU);                                   
•  Indian Universities: Amrita University; IGIT Delhi; JIIT, Noida; SMVDU, Jammu&Kashmir

It is awesome  to see more students engaged with technology/industry experts working on great open source products with support from companies like Sun!

[1] GFQC - https://glassfish.dev.java.net/quality/portal/
[2] GlassFish Project Ideas - http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=ProjectIdeas
[3] Process for Students and Mentors - http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=ProjectIdeasProcess
[4] SJSU and SFSU meet java.net, Mural and Glass Fish -  http://blogs.sun.com/skonchady/entry/sjsu_and_sfsu_meet_java


Posted by Jagadesh Babu Munta ( Aug 01 2008, 07:10:56 PM PDT ) Permalink