Sun has announced the Code for Freedom contest , on the eve of India's 60 th year of Independence.This is an open source  project contest for students (Graduate/UG) all over India.

Here is an article in Hindu about it. 

The contest was launched this month and will last till 06' Febraury 08 .This basically aims at contributing for five major projects,

Open Solaris,

Contribution can be done by solving bugs. search for bugs and try fixing them.

NetBeans.

 Project GlassFish

Contribute in terms of code, or documentation or bug fixes.

Open Portal

Portlets, Bugs, RFEs, Documentation

Apache Derby

 Contribute in terms of code.

Here are the rules.
Register for it here  

Here is a forum which you can join and contribute. For queries contact codeforfreedom@sun.com

There are a lotta prizes like (Laptops, USB sticks,iPods , Tshirts etc).

Participate and win laurels!!!




 

Comments:

Hi Krithika,

Perhaps, you are in some way associated with Code For Freedom contest. So may be you can help me in some way. am working on NetBeans project as part of this contest. It would be very nice if I can get answers to a couple of my queries:

1. I have sent the Contributor;s agreement. Can i have a confirmation if it has received it or not?

2. In the page where we have to submit our contributions, there is a field for ref#, now I have submitted some Community docs to the Wiki as well as I am serving as a NetBeans Community Docs coordinator, how
do i submit this information? i do not have ref# for community docs contributions.

Please let me know, preferably by mail (amitksaha@netbeans.org)

Thanks,

Amit

Posted by Amit on September 17, 2007 at 02:45 AM PDT #

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