Wednesday Jul 01, 2009

Even though it has officially been a month since JavaOne 2009, their is still a lot of buzz surrounding the event and the student experience.

Avinash Joshi, a Sun Campus Ambassador at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala, attended JavaOne and recently blogged about his time at the conference.  He said: "What a learning experience...! Learning never stops." 

That definitely seemed to be the case as developers young and old came to share and learn at JavaOne. Hopefully the tradition of JavaOne will continue next year -- with the same generous offer of free entrance to students!

You can check out all the details of Avinash's time at JavaOne as well as his nearly a dozen links to photos, videos, and more.

And, just to make your day, here is a short 2-minute clip that gives a glimpse into the student experience at JavaOne:

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Wednesday Jun 24, 2009

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. 

  1. JavaOne 2009: Roundup
  2. JavaOne 2009: The Prelude and the Journey
  3. JavaOne 2009: CommunityOne
  4. JavaOne 2009: The Pavilion
  5. JavaOne 2009: The Conference Floor
  6. JavaOne 2009: Keynotes
  7. JavaOne 2009: James Gosling Q&A
  8. JavaOne 2009: The Parties and Dinners
  9. JavaOne 2009: San Francisco Sightseeing Tour

Thanks Angad for this wonderful recap of JavaOne and sharing your experience with the community! 

Tuesday Jun 16, 2009

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.

Here Denis demonstrates in a JavaOne Minute:

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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! 

Monday Jun 15, 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.

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!

Monday Jun 08, 2009

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.

Friday Jun 05, 2009

I just got back from my trip to JavaOne in San Francisco and had a great time. I was able to meet many students that are both former and current Campus Ambassadors, as well as other students who are very active in the OSUM community both online and at their University. I was also able to finally meet my boss Chhandomay in person!

Many students I spoke with had traveled VERY far to come to JavaOne! I expect they were as busy as I was and will catch up on their blogs when they return home after the weekend.  I am very anxious to hear about everyone's experiences!

I mainly worked in the JavaOne Radio booth area, which was great because it afforded me the opportunity to meet all kinds of presenters at the conference who spent some time talking with us.   

We recorded SO many shows on JavaOne Radio, which is now a goldmine of information from the conference!  You can directly link to the shows right from this blog thanks to the new layout.  So give some a listen -- none is more than 20 minutes long and most are short -- about 5-10 minutes in length and let me know what your favorites are!

Sunday May 31, 2009

The JavaFX Coding Challenge is now closed for submitting entries. Over the last two months, developers and students worldwide tried their best to come up with innovative JavaFX applications that could claim top prizes of $25K, $10K and $5K.

A staggering 39% of the total submissions are from students across the world.

Speaking of student diversity, students from many different countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, United States and Venezuela submitted JavaFX applications.

We will be evaluating the entries over the next month. Results will be made available on or around June 29th.

In addition to the top the prizes open to everybody, top 3 student entries will win $1,500 each.

Thanks to all those who entered and we are hoping to meet up with lots of students this week at JavaOne!

Friday May 29, 2009

Listen below (or on the side thanks to this great new blog theme!) as some of Sun's campus ambassadors talk about their upcoming trips to JavaOne and CommunityOne!

Wednesday May 13, 2009

If you are a student and you are not a member of OSUM yet, then I strongly encourage you to sign up here ASAP because next week the OSUM community will have special access to the JavaOne hands on lab dry runs!

The hands on labs will be conducted as OSUM webinars, so those of you who are unable to make it can still get the chance to sit with a JavaOne presenter as they walk you through a hands on lab!

Here are the Webinars scheduled for next week:

This is a great opportunity even for those who plan on attending JavaOne!  If you watch the webinars next week it will free up your time for you to sign up for more hands on labs at JavaOne! And, as always, if you can't make it to the live webinar, you can always listen to the replays here.  

 

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