Organised by Sun Microsystems India Inc

Key Dates: Deadline for submission of project proposal Decemeber 31, 2008.

Contest Ends :: April 30 ,2009.

Winners Announced :: June 14, 2009.The free and open source movement is emerging as the new world order in the technology sector across the world . Today , free and opensource Productes such as Apache web server, Openoffice and GNU/Linux have dwarfed several proprietary software products.Sun Microsystems has announced the Second Edition of Code For Freedom
2008 Contest where students across India will contribute to the technologies that are empowering the participation Age. One can gain industry experience while at college by participating in this contest.

Code For Freedom is an open source code contest conducted by
Sun Microsystems targeting the student community. Through this contest,
they intend to involve the large student community to join the open
source movement by contributing to the various open source initiatives
that Sun espouses.

The Various Sun Technologies one can work on are: GlassFish, GridEngine, JavaDB,Java.net,Mobile & Embedded, MySQL, NetBeans, OpenDS, Open ESB, OpenJDK,
OpenCDS, Open HA, Cluster, OpenOffice.org, OpenSPARC, OpenSSO,
OpenSolaris, PostgreSQL, VirtualBox.

For more details contact: codeforfreedom-AT-sun-DOT-com