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Monday Part I

Enter Monday morning. After a very lively breakfast, we met with Gary who took us to the Borgia Room on the Mezzanine level to meet with the Sun Developer Sites team, who are charged with the design and maintenance of the web presence of sites under the developers.sun.com portal. They were interested in gaining insight from us regarding the Sun Student Developers' resource page.

This was a great chance for us to have some direct input on a valuable Sun student resource, and we took it! Brainstorming between the 5 of us as Campus Ambassadors and the Site Development Team produced many great ideas, some of which are listed here:

1. Region-specific language choices and localization for various regions and cultures


2. The ability to personalize the site's main page to individual tastes and preferences


3. Possible social networking/student community enhancements

What did we miss? Is there something else you would like to see with the developer's site for students, faculty or otherwise? Let us know by commenting to this post!

Posted at 05:03AM Feb 27, 2008 by Gregory Corbin in Sun  |  Comments[1]

WWERC Arrival

Hello all...

Welcome to my first WWERC entry from the conference location! After considerable delays in travel I arrived, via Altoona, PA and Dulles airport in Washinington D.C., at the Westin St. Francis hotel in downtown San Francisco at around 8pm pacific. Even on a Sunday evening, what a lively city! Anyway, grabbed some food in the neighborhood and began to decompress. Sent a breakfast invite to my fellow ambassadors, Abhishek Kumar (India), Sergejs Pisarenko (Sweden), Ezequiel Singer (Argentina) and Vincent Ding (China) for morning. Monday holds a meeting with Gary (Serda) at 11 AM, so it was off to bed after checking email and news.

As the sole Campus Ambassador from the US, I feel honored to be amongst such diversity in my colleagues. In our new age, we have come face to face with the realities of globalization. This is true in our economy, ecology and culture. Why would we expect it to be any different for the realm of education?

Sun Microsystems' Campus Ambassador program, if you haven't deduced by now, stands as a shining example of meeting the challenges and opportunities of global business and education head on. The fact that there are students like us here this week at WWERC serves to highlight this as well. The fact that Sun sponsors a forum such as this for educators, students, researchers and industry worldwide to come together to discuss topics like this each year emphasizes a commitment to staying ahead of the game in this domain.

Please check back over the next few days for a day-by-day account of the Sun Campus Ambassadors' experience at WWERC, including photos and video as well. Who knows? You may even find yourself here if you let your guard down long enough for us to descend upon you with our probing questions and interviews!

Until next time,

Greg.

Posted at 02:41AM Feb 27, 2008 by Gregory Corbin in Personal  |  Comments[0]