No, I haven't just returned from "the Valley", but The Open Source University Meetup (OSUM) is the latest great idea in Education at Sun Microsystems. OSUM is a social networking and learning site aimed at bringing together students interested in open source software, whether it be learning, sharing or using open source developer tools and platforms. In a society where students are acclimated to using social networks to find friends, how better to bring them together with like-minds interested in MySQL(TM), NetBeans(TM), Java(TM), GlassFish(TM), OpenSPARC(TM), OpenSolaris(TM) and more. Beyond just a social networking site, OSUM helps students to connect in person through on-campus meetups and events, coordinated by our very adept network of more than 500 Sun Campus Ambassadors.
The results are amazing. Or simply "OSUM". Within the first two months of the launch, there are already 20,000+ members in the OSUM community. Students come to discuss everything on the site, high tech to networking. The students are sharing their interests, their code and their lives. They can use the site to find solutions, answers to their project challenges and even jobs. This is the backyard barbeque and work water cooler wrapped into one and I invite you to check it out.
Joe,
Yup, this is really a good program for student, and many students here [in Indonesia] have interest with this program.
Thanks
Posted by Alex Budiyanto on November 18, 2008 at 04:38 PM PST #
In only one week we have +5000 members and it keeps growing! It's also amazing that there are 727 groups from Universites from all over the World!
Posted by Cecilia Arrillaga on November 19, 2008 at 05:19 AM PST #