Fantastic student recap of JavaOne!
Campus Ambassador Kevin Li has graciously shared the recap of his experience at JavaOne, and with his permission, I am publishing it here to share with Sun's student community.
Hi all,
It is my greatest honor that I was there, with thousands of developers and students, participating in the 14th JavaONE conference. As NING service is temporarily not available in China, I would like to share my experiences about JavaONE 2009 here with you.
From a simple idea many years ago and the Duke swinging his hands in the browser which made everyone in the world exciting, to today, billions of devices running Java, including personal computers, mobile phones, enterprise servers etc. it is the result of insistent innovation and the spirit of community and sharing.
In CommunityONE West, we heard from our top performance campus ambassadors, Hyejin Park from Korea, Tom Mix from Brazil, Felipe Cerda from Chile and Avinash Joshi from India, sharing their successful experiences about connecting students in universities in our OSUM community. We also learned the open cloud platform of Sun Microsystems from David Douglas, Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing, and the latest features of OpenSolaris 2009.06 from OpenSolaris tech leads. The OpenSolaris and Sun Cloud Party in the evening was a really cool party. The band, food, drinks and games bade everyone exciting and crazy. It was the most impressive party I've ever seen. (Keynote replay here).
From June 2 to June 5, over thousands of sessions were provided, I just couldn't believe that and wanna join all of the sessions! But you know, it is impossible. Fortunately, there was a special schedule for our students helping us to simplify the life. Joining every proposed session, we got a stamp for the raffle every day at our OSUM Lounge in the pavilion. The lucky ones got Sun SPOT and iPod touch in the raffle, and all of us had fun in this so called "Student Scavenger."
The keynotes and technical sessions were amazing and unforgettable. We learned the latest technologies from Sun Engineers, shared experiences with developers and JavaONE sponsors from all over the world. In the pavilion, cool demos were shown everywhere and I think the most impressive demo was the Sun SPOT and JavaFX demo shown by Denis Magda, campus ambassador from Russia.
And of course, the most exciting moment, was talking with James Gosling around the table. He shared his great experiences with us and gave many helpful suggestions to students. Giveaway always is a traditional part and everyone gets dozens of gifts. Ashwin told us that he got totally 20 T-shirts in JavaONE!
In addition, we also helped to introduce our OSUM community to students at the OSUM Lounge, record videos with Gary for sun.com and of course the JavaONE Minutes at java.sun.com/javaone!
Thanks to Lin, Andrea, Gary, Tzel, David and other campus ambassadors being with me, I had a great time in San Francisco. The conference was amazing, all of the dinners and parties were funny and impressive, and San Francisco is a really beautiful city. I would like to share my great experiences in San Francisco to all of my friends and members at OSUM.
See my pictures here and part of the videos here.
Best regards,
- Kevin Li
Many thanks to Kevin for this wonderful recap of his week and experience at JavaOne! And, to any other students who attended, please e-mail me at maijaliisa.burkert(at)sun.com so I can share them with the community!
