Angad Singh is a Campus Ambassador Tech Lead for Sun who made his first trip to JavaOne this year.
Angad has written a series of nine blog postings that completely capture his JavaOne experience. Between the photos and his writeup he really captures the spirit of the event.
I highly recommend you click on the links below to read all about his experience. For those who were unable to attend it really gives you an idea of the great sense of community to be found at Sun -- even amongst those who have never met in person.
Plan to spend some time digging into these posts as there are lots of great links to JavaOne minutes and other multi-media events Angad participated in.
I came across an interesting blog on OSUM today, and want to point it out to the readers of this blog as I know many of you will be able to offer suggestions.
Sethu is a student at the Sona College of Technology. As an IT student he is looking for information on the skill set he should have as a future Computer Engineer. His question goes beyond academics, to how he can (and should) establish and showcase his talents to make a good impression on a future employer (certificates, publications, conferences, contests, etc.).
Sethu is looking for suggestions on how to select the extra activities beyond academics to develop his skill set. He indicates he will be graduating in 2011.
I am sure there are plenty of students, campus ambassadors, and former IT students that are now in the work force, or about to enter that can offer Sethu some guidance, so please go here to read his blog in its entirety and offer him advice.
Hyejin Park is a Sun Campus Ambassador from Korea who attended JavaOne 2009. She has written a fantastic blog about her experience at JavaOne which I am re-posting here in full. Many thanks to Hyejin for sharing her experience with us. From her pictures and this posting I can see why she is one of Sun's top Campus Ambassadors!
My impression of JavaOne I remember the week before leaving Korea when I couldn't go to sleep fluttering with the thoughts of my trip to San Francisco for JavaOne Conference which I was invited to. Those days seem like yesterday to me, but it's already two weeks past the event. (even though I still can't settle down from the trip. haha). It does seem a little late but I'm organizing them a little by little on Piccasa, blog, etc in order to keep these memories for a long time.
Java! Java! Java! As I arrived at the conference, it was all about Java. Before Java was born, embodying something under one dimensional graphic on a black command window was the full extent. However, through Java, moving characters started to appear on browser windows, and this made not only Koreans but everyone in the world to drown in the Java's attractiveness, triggering continuous improvements. Nowadays, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that there are no IT products such as laptops, cell phone, servers, etc that does not utilize Java. I think that Sun Microsystems' quick realization of importance in 'open', 'share' and 'community', and effort to improve the technology under these environment were the greatest motivations that enabled continuous improvement of Java.
Open! Open! Open! I could experience in firsthand that JavaOne, a place that provides thousands of seminars and large number of developers from all over the world share their opinions, was the one responsible for opening up new technology and creating a community to improve it for the better by sharing.
Share! Share! Share! Keynote speech in the Opening Session which was given by engineers of Sun Microsystems or other famous system engineers from the industry was the best time to encounter the latest technology. Engineers explained how the systems were developed and how they are used in business through actual execution a demo.
The fact that a new programming model 'Cloud Computing' is a new infrastructure of IT at the same time as improving into a motivation of a new business model was very interesting. It was said that 'Cloud Computing' will contribute to making company management methods more efficient through reduction in construction cost of infrastructure, Virtualization technology, etc. Explanation through demonstration of how it is used in actual business in pioneer case of Amazon and Google was a beneficial session which helped in understanding not only the IT side but also the business side. It is a subject that I would definitely want to study if opportunity allows.
Community! Community! Community! A meaningful events to create relationships with people from related business fields were provided such as meeting with fourteen Campus Ambassadors from different parts of the world, discussion session with James Gosling who is the very first developer of Java programming language and global reception party with developers of JavaFX, OpenSolaris, and engineers in charge of IT systems of prominent companies. Introducing the OSUM community, benefits of subscribing to the community and local cases from Sun Campus Ambassadors currently operating in different parts of the world at OSUM Lounge (Open Source University Meet-up Lounge) to students was a very valuable opportunity.
Furthermore, the events were provided to JavaOne students at no cost, technical session lectures beneficial to students were recommended through student scavenger activity, and helped students participate efficiently in the JavaOne event by providing the schedules ahead of time. Students could easily and more beneficially participate in the JavaOne event through specific schedule made just for students, and enjoy the glory of winning Ipod Touch or SunSpot in the raffle with stamps received in the event. You can have a look at JavaOne Minute containing the interviews with Raffle Winners at HERE. Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! I deeply thank Sun Microsystems for providing this amazing opportunity that I will never forget. I specially thank Lin, Gary, David, Tzel, Ganesh, Joonho, Bonghwan, Professor Lee, Keumsuk, Korean Campus Ambassadors and other Campus Ambassadors that were with me. I truly thank God father Gary for taking care of Campus Ambassadors through the program in San Francisco. Eight days in San Francisco has left valuable and unforgettable memories in my life and I would like to share this experience with my friends and members of OSUM(osum.sun.com).
I have shared pictures on Picasa at the moment, so have a look at HERE.
Written by Sun Microsystems 4th Korea Campus Ambassador Leader Hyejin Park(박혜진 from Dongguk Univ.)
Thiago Sá is a Sun Campus Ambassador and Teleinformatics Engineering undergraduate student at Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil.
Thiago reports in his blog that he was quite busy last week doing presentations at three different events! The first event he wrote about was Technology Week at Faculdade Christus.
Thiago was invited to the event by Professor Adail Nunes after hearing of his performance at the Café com Tapioca event in Sobral, which Thiago blogged about here. At the event, Thiago "talked about OSUM, the free courses offered through SAI and about each of the certifications that students and professors can take using the SAI discount vouchers."
Thiago said while the institution already had an OSUM group, there are now more members! Congratulations Thiago and we look forward to hearing about your other two presentations. To see pictures from Thiago's presentation at Faculdade Christus click here.
Those of you who attended JavaOne probably remember seeing Sun Campus Ambassador Denis Magda and his now-famous gloves in Java Utopia demonstrating his MinorityReport project. Words cannot state how impressive the project is! Denis describes it best saying "we are using a pair of sensormotor-gloves with Sun SPOT on them to do different manipulations with JavaFX application remotely by hand movements."
If you weren't able to make it to JavaOne, or missed the demo, don't worry -- it was captured in a few different places.
And here Denis shows JavaOne host Chris Melissinos how his project works:
As Denis has pointed out, because the project is open source, you can build your own MinorityReport! Congratulations to Denis for being one of the real stars of JavaOne 2009!
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.
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!
Campus Ambassador Tom Mix from the University Center of FEI - Brazil was one of many students lucky enough to attend last week's JavaOne Conference in San Francisco.
Tom not only attended the event, but was a member of the Street Teams, producing JavaOne Minute videos. Some of Tom's JavaOne Minute videos can be viewed here, with all the other JavaOne Minute videos available in the upper right-hand corner of this blog!
Tom has also posted some photos of the event including him speaking to more than 5,000 attendees on stage, meeting Scott McNealy, and the infamous James Gosling! It looks like Tom had a great experience at JavaOne and I suspect he has even more photos he will be posting in the coming days.
I want to hear about your student experience at JavaOne -- or if you could not attend how you attended virtually through live-streaming videos! Please e-mail me your links/thoughts/photos etc. at maijaliisa.burkert[at]sun.com so I can share with everyone else.
Jakub Kotowski recently wrote a blog that nicely describes the work that more than 700 Sun Campus Ambassadors around the world engage in.
As Jakub points out, the responsibility of a Campus Ambassador is to "promote open-source technologies from Sun, and try to create and foster a community of students interested in Sun technologies but also in open source in general."
Sun Campus Ambassadors organize events at their respective universities where they introduce technologies such as OpenSolaris, JavaFX, NetBeans, MySQL, and GlassFish among others.
Additionally, Campus Ambassadors help promote Sun's Academic Initiative through which Jakub reports "students gain free access to various Web-based courses and have a possibility to get a discount on Sun certification exams."
Check out Jakub's blog for more details on the Sun Campus Ambassador program. Also, if you haven't already been to OSUM check that out as well and find the student group at your university!
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