Friday October 13, 2006
Sun Launches Campus Ambassador Program
Sun has recently launched a Campus Ambassador Program. As a part of this program students from approx 170 universities in 30 countries gets an opportunity to charge up as an evangelist who will introduce Sun platforms to a whole range of academic developers.
Technologies and open source projects included in the program are
> Solaris10 Operating System
> Java-based technologies
> Community projects - OpenSolaris, OpenSPARC project, NetBeans, Sun Studio etc.
Sun will provide extensive training on above mentioned. Ambassadors in turn get an opportunity to demonstrate their proficiency on these technologies throughout the year.
Campus Ambassador get to
> Lead Sun developer community in his/her campus
> Run Sun Technology demo sessions in his/her campus
> Promote Sun training events in his/her campus
Check out below for more information -
Sun's Campus Ambassadors to Evangelize Solaris Operating System, Java and Developer Tools
Sun Microsystems Champions Student Developers In Higher Education
Internship/Job Posting on website of one of the Engineering school of 'University of California'.
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Tuesday October 03, 2006
My stint with Camera@VTU
Now I can add another title on my resume - Television Star. 
Last week, I had my debut on picture-tube while I gave a presentation as a supplement to the VTU-EDUSAT Programme.
With a microphone in place, camera in room and those three words Lights, Camera, Action I surely felt like a Celebrity. 
It was a one hour session and was conducted live from VTU Studio Bangalore at 4.30 PM on September 27, 2006. Talk was received at classrooms of Engineering Colleges under VTU in Karnataka. Talk followed a small 'Q & A' session to provide students with an opportunity to elucidate their doubts.
It looks like Virtualization is flavor of the session and undoubtedly is here to stay.
> Virtualization of compute resources
> Virtualization of Storage
> Virtualization of Software
and now Virtualization of education. Cool isn't it.
This concept requires a satellite-based interactive network that has two-way video/audio transmission facility. Network transfer data from the studio to the remote classrooms. In order to accomplish this, Studio is linked to the uplink earth station. Lectures are transmitted to the satellite from where they are beamed back to earth and are received at various Engineering colleges.
In an initiative to keep their students up-to-date with technical skills, VTU invites SME's (Subject Matter Experts) from various leading companies in order to emphasize on cutting-edge technology across the spectrum of technical fields.
IMHO, being part of a live-television programme is more complicated than it looks. As the guy behind the camera mentioned shoot, I felt really nervous and began to have butterflies in my stomach. Progressively it felt like there were more and more butterflies in my belly. I felt like running from there. I somehow muster entire courage in me and carried on with my presentation.
In contrast to a presentation where audience is present in front of you, here presenter has to use her/his judgment to check if what she/he is explaining is being easily understood by students. I tried to present information in simple format and paraphrase complex topics.
Presentation is available at http://forum.vtu.ac.in/viewtopic.php?t=3899
Alternatively it can also be found at VTU_JavaSession.pdf
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