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Open Source Mela at IEC,Bangalore was held on 24th , 25th March. Open source mela was so much fun . There was loads of events which includes a.Talks by engineers on different sun technologies, b) Panel Discussion, c)Blogging Contest, d)Business Plan Competition,e)Dtrace Contest,d) Fun Events,e)Open Quiz Contest, Lucky Dip.
 To start with , I attended KNR keynote session followed by couple of tech talks.
 Now coming the interesting part, I participated in Business Plan competition.

When ever I think of Business plan competition, I feel very nostalgic, It reminds my good old MBA days :D

I and ganesh participated as one team . We submitted our business plan on " ECSTASY - Software Insurance Product" .

Here is the executive summary of our Business plan ::

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door ”

Business Plan on ECSTASY – Software Insurance Product.

Executive Summary

There is a evolutionary change in the technology that has revolutionized the entire insurance sector.
Insurance industry is a data-rich industry, and thus, there is a need to use the data for trend analysis and personalization.

With increased competition among insurers, service has become a key issue. Moreover, customers are getting increasingly sophisticated and tech-savvy. People today don’t want to accept the current value propositions, they want personalized interactions and they look for more and more features and add ones and better service.

The insurance companies today must meet the need of the hour for more and more personalized approach for handling the customer. Today managing the customer intelligently is very critical for the insurer especially in the very competitive environment. Companies need to apply different set of rules and treatment strategies to different customer segments. However, to personalize interactions, insurers are required to capture customer information in an integrated system.With the explosion of Website and greater access to direct product or policy information, there is a need to developing better techniques to give customers a truly personalized experience. Personalization helps organizations to reach their customers with more impact and to generate new revenue through cross selling and up selling activities. To ensure that the customers are receiving personalized information, many organizations are incorporating knowledge database-repositories of content that typically include a search engine and lets the customers locate the all document and information related to their queries of request for services. Customers can hereby use the knowledge database to mange their products or the company information and invoices, claim records, and histories of the service inquiry. These products also may be able to learn from the customer’s previous knowledge database and to use their information when determining the relevance to the customers search request.

There is a probability of a spurt in employment opportunities. A number of web-sites are coming up on insurance, a few financial magazines exclusively devoted to insurance and also a few training institutes being set up hurriedly. Many of the universities and management institutes have already started or are contemplating new courses in insurance.

Life insurance has today become a mainstay of any market economy since it offers plenty of scope for garnering large sums of money for long periods of time. A well-regulated life insurance industry which moves with the times by offering its customers tailor-made products to satisfy their financial needs is, therefore, essential if we desire to progress towards a worryfree future.With the inclusion of open source technologies , We will be developing a software insurance product.

Me, Ganesh and Tirthankar at demo stall during opensource Mela.

We had an on-spot osum registration camp where we guided the students in joining OSUM. We also distributed prizes to the students in several competitions. Every group created in these two days and having 25 members at the end of the second day won the prizes. Hourly prizes for lucky students who registered at sun Tech Days.

We had around 1000 registrations on the two days of tech days. The most popular question asked at the stall was how to become a sun campus Ambassador and how to be a OSUM leader. It was very pleasing to see students taking interest in open source and their willingness to learn sun technologies and participate in the CA program.

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.

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.