We hired 93 Campus Ambassador for FY09 . We did our first induction Program @ MSRamaiah Institute of technologies, Bangalore.
Gary Serda,Global Manager for Sun Campus Ambassador program and  Anil  Valluri India GEM VP  attended the CA Induction program  . We invited 40 sun Campus  Ambassadors from all over the country in July

We conducted our 2nd  Campus Ambassador Induction Program II  @ Amity University, Noida in September

I and Shampavman went for Archarya Institute of technology, Bangalore for the Sun Club Inaugural function on 29th August 2008. I really thank prof. Viswasnath, HOD, MCA department for his enthusiasm and interest in adopting sun technologies in their college.  I and Sham met their principal and had a long discussion about sun activities in their campus and then we headed to MCA block  for the inaugural function.

I was surprised to see massive crowd of 400 students who were participating for this event. Even the director of the AIT gathered for this function.

We started with key note session by Dr.Somanth.

 Presentation on Sun Academic Initative.

I gave a talk on importance of opensource, SAI and Sun technologies. After my presentation , Shampavman , Campus Ambassador from JSSATE , Bangalore gave a talk on opensolaris and Sun SPot. The students response was very good.

Today (24th April)  I visited M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology  to have a discussion with the  HOD and  Faculty members.The day was so exciting!!!! Ramaiah college has organized the  National conference on software Engineering, Sun is the major sponsorer for this event.  I was cordially invited by the Ramaiah Institute.The conference started at 10:30 , the proceedings was done by Dr.Gopalkrishna, Managing Direcotor of Integra microsystems.After the keynote session , I had a conversation with Dr.Gopalkrishna and Suresh kumar ,HOD of Ramaiah college pertaining to Sun technologies and about the future plans. Pradeep , Campus Ambassador from MSRIT distributed Solaris Starter kit and Netbeans DVD 's to all the professors. HOD and Faculty members  showed great hospitality. I am really delighted the way things have worked today.

As part of Sun India university Program , We  conducted Sun University Day - CORONA event  at
a.Sastra University on 13th April.  b.PESIT on 19th April.

The Sun university Day was a one day event.
Agenda for the program.
1.Introduction to open solaris and installation .
2.Introduction to open solaris features like ZFS,Dtrace, Zones.
3.Development tools ( Netbeans, Sun Studio). 
4. Demo on SUN SPOTS.

SUN distributed Certificates, Solaris Starter Kit, Goodies to all the
participants.
We witnessed very good response from both the Institutes.
I sincerely thank Shampavan from JSS college and kumar Abhishek for their efforts to make this event successful.
Even Sushma , Rupayan, Gaurav from PESIT helped us to a great extent.  

As part of SUN India university program, we conducted Faculty training program at different colleges in south India.
The whole training program was purely on solaris. We conducted the  Faculty training program last month at

1.KLE college , Belgaum .
2.RNSIT, Bangalore.
3.TCE , madurai.
4.Amritha institute ,kerala.

More than 90 faculties were trained on solaris.
I sincerely  thank pooja chavan, Pooja adiga, Krithika , Archana for their kind support and co ordination.

Well words fall short to explain about the SUN Techdays.  It was such an amazing experience!!!!!!!
Sun Techday was held at International conventional center , Hyderabad from 27th - 29th.
Sun Techday had loads of technical sessions and stalls for different business units.
We had a University program stall , Where I and Anuradha explained about the SUN INDIA UNIVERSITY PROGRAM to all the participants. Students were really excited about the Sun Campus Ambassador program.
We shared our contact details with all the participants.
After that I attended Matt thomson and Ian murdock technical session. The technical session was incredible.

On 9th JAN, I Conducted a meeting with Bangalore Campus Ambassadors at Bangalore SUN office.The whole idea of the meeting was to motivate all the Campus Ambassador and also to  discuss various issues pertaining to Campus Ambassador Program like

1.Progress on Code for Freedom contest.
2. Upcoming events.
3. SUN GURU program.
4. SUN UNIVERSITY PROGRAM.
5. Reports.

I am really glad to share that Sun had hired 100 Campus Ambassador for FY08 from 100 best institutes across India.

Out of which I am managing 28 colleges. These colleges includes.

1.Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala, 2. NIT , Calicut. 3. IIITM, Kerala.
4. NIT , karnataka.5. RVCE, Bangalore.6. PESIT, Bangalore.7. JSS, Bangalore.
8. UVCE , Bangalore. 9. NIE, Mysore. 10. MSRIT, Bangalore.
11.BVB, Hubli.12. BEC, Bagalkote.13. KLE, Belgaum.14. BMSCE, Bangalore.
15. MIT , Manipal. 16. RNSIT , Bangalore.
17 .TCE Madurai. 18.Anna Univ – MIT chennai.
19.SRM – Tamil Nadu.20.Bannari Amman – Erode, TN
21.NIT Trichy. 22.AKCE – Madurai, 23.VIT VELLORE.
24.ANNAMALAI. 25.CITCA, COIMBATORE,
26.PSG COIMBATORE. 27.Guindy College of Engg Chennai.28. Sastra University. 

I  really thank Sun microsystems for giving me ADI Ambassador Co ordinator's role.  I  will be the direct liaison between the ADI program Manager and the Ambassador . 

My key role includes :

1.Undertake Ambassador Recruitment ,widely distribute job posting to campus career centers.
2. Review resumes and to conduct interviews.
3.Facilitate ongoing communication among Ambassador to promote sharing of best practices, tools and resources.
4.Provide Ambassador with ADI program artifacts, collateral and presentations.
5.Supervise Ambassador's Progress toward implementing prescribed events and marketing tactics as outlined in their Ambassador development plan.
6. compile Monthly ambassadors report. 

The Campus Ambassador Program was born out of the Academic Developer Initiative. The Focus has been on driving Sun technology use in academic settings through sharing, collaboration and open innovation. The Campus Ambassador program is designed to select a student Sun representative to make sure that three key groups are targeted to point their attention to the free tools and training that Sun microsystems has to offer: students, professors and researchers.

The Ambassadors have been tasked with being the prime movers for all things sun on campus including:

1.Starting a Sun user's Group.
2. Setting up a Sun Blog.
3. Joining the various Sun Developers communities and
finally to run sun technology demos on campus.

Well... as I sit down to write about myself,  I start wondering... if you are someone reading this, you are probably a close friend of mine or someone who has never heard of me. So lemme give short introduction about myself.

I am Rajesh.U.S , hail from Karnataka, India. I pursued my graduation in Bachelor of Engineering ( Information science) from People Education Society Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Later I pursued Master in Business Administration in Human Resource management from Dr.Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bangalore.

Previously I was working for Wipro Technologies as HR. Fortunately I joined SUN MICROSYSTEMS on 29th OCT 07. I sincerely thank Mr.Ganesh Hiregoudar, Program manager, APAC for giving me a chance to work in this prestigious company.