Campus Ambassador Coordinator Around the Sun

At last Aberystwyth University (where I am currently based) has an OSUM (Open Source University Meetup) club. I've managed to persuade a friend of mine to run the club. You can check out the website at http://osum.sun.com/group/aberystwythuniversityosum and I encourage you all to register and participate in the community.

So what do you get by registering?

• Tech-demos and talks about all the latest Open Source technologies.
• Free food and drink at the tech-demos.
• Prizes and give-aways at events and competitions.
• A community driven website where you can meet fellow developers and Open Source enthusiasts.
  

The first event is not going to be until early February due to exams in January and the fact that Aberystywth breaks up in 2 weeks time. However, the first demo is going to be on SunSPOTs (Sun Small Programmable Object Technology). I'm currently putting together what I hope will be an exciting demo using all the cool features of the SunSPOTs including the light sensors, tempreature sensors and accelerometer!

If you're interested in SunSPOTs already you can check out http://www.sunspotworld.com/, otherwise I look forward to seeing you all in February.

I'm a day or two late but Sun announced on Monday the Amber Road line of products. Amber Road has been under development within Sun for some time. I remember seeing some of the early beta demos last year and thinking "This is going to be amazing!" Well here it is, finally - the Unified Storage System.

You can check out all the cool features, and even have a go with the software in a virtual machine by visiting: http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/index.jsp

But to whet your appetites here is a picture, they say a picture speaks a thousand words...

At Sun we get a 'Start the Week' email every Monday. I usually spend some time reading the articles in this e-mail as they can be interesting relating to new product releases, events during the week, talks to go to etc.

One thing that caught my eye this morning that I feel I ought to share is that a group of Sun employees are going to be sleeping rough in London this Wednesday (13th November) to help raise money for the national charity helping homeless young people, Centrepoint.

I'm going to donate some money and I urge you all to do so too... http://www.justgiving.com/sun-sleepout-team