I was a member of the Sun FOSS team for 2006. The best part of this year's participation were the words of appreciation from the FOSS community in India. Just check out these lines from Atul Chitnis, Lead Organizer for FOSS.IN 2006.
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Here is an organization that has been consistent in suprising the FOSS community with lavish gifts of contribution of code.
They were Platinum Sponsors at FOSS.IN/2005, and they completely blew
us all away with their professional show of FOSS power, both in their well
arranged and extremely useful talks and tutorials, as well as their amazingly well designed and informative stall at the expo.
And they blew us away even more with their release of OpenSolaris, contributing a huge pool of valuable technologies and code to the FOSS code pool.
A hard act to follow, but they did it, resoundingly:
Today and as I am writing this, Sun Microsystems is releasing Java as
Free and Open Source Software under the GPL. Simultaneously, the previously released Glassfish project now also comes under the GPL.
And FOSS.IN is one of the first events where Sun will be showcasing all this and more, in addition to a series of talks related to the projects.
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Sumitha Prashanth and her
team over all these month, and they ensured that at every turn,
FOSS.IN's requirements came first - an attitude that is both rare and welcome
with big name sponsors. We, in turn welcome Java to the FOSS world, and
thank Sun for making FOSS.IN the first platform in India to mark such an important point in the history of technology.
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Three cheers to the India opensource community! Hip, hip, hooray!
