An update on the GAP, the GlassFish Awards Program. We now have 10 submissions (Submissions Table) and we are aware of at least a couple more in the queue. The GAP Rules award prizes to the top 20 submissions, and we would like to avoid leaving money on the table; if you are planning a submission, I'd encourage you to do it now, before CommunityOne and JavaOne so we can help you put together as strong a submission as possible.

One important clarification: Sun Campus Ambassadors are eligible provided that the work for the GAP submission is unrelated to the work that you are doing for Sun as part of the Campus Ambassador Program.

The GlassFish Awards Program (GAP) is intended to encourage and reward innovation in the GlassFish Community. The program's rules (here) are quite loose and many types of projects will qualify. There are US$ 175K available, for both projects and bug submissions; check Previous Posts for additional commentary.

Some notes on the program:

• Submissions are to be sent to Gap-Submissions at GF (Archive, mailto). • All projects in the GlassFish community at-large are eligible. • Applicants are individuals, we don't care were they work. • Whether you need to sign the SCA depends on the requirements of your project. • Docs, Portals, Workshops, etc, are all eligible. If in doubt, Ask Us. • Don't wait until the last minute; Submit it Now! • A good approach is to submit now what you have, then Send an Update!

We have up to 20 prizes for projects and many more for bug submissions but we have received very few submissions so far. I suspect many are waiting for the deadline, but we would much rather you submit now first and then resubmit. Don't leave money on the table!

Note! We had a configuration problem with the submission alias and it is possible that some submissions may not have been recorded properly. If you submitted, please check the alias archive, and resubmit if necessary.

The GlassFish Awards Program GAP includes the GlassFish AppServer but also any other project in the GlassFish Community - see the Project List (and let me know of omissions!). Hudson, the popular Continuous Integration project (Hudson@TA) is included in the program and the lead of Hudson, Kohsuke, has posted a Call for Submissions; check it out and submit your entries. The rules are fairly flexible and they include bug reports (and fixes!) as well as a variety of project contributions. Perpetual Motion Machines are not included, but, if you think you have invented one you might as well include a link to it as a comment to this entry :-)

News Summary - Jan 27th to Feb 3rd, 2008

• Community - Last Call for CommunityOne! and Awards Program &bull Hudson - News Roundup • Web Services - REST (Jersey and Spring) and JAX-WS Prezo • Scripting - Vivek's New Job! and Mediacast site Now Built with JRuby • Deployments - GlassFish in a Zone, • MySQL - First release of Maria • Sun - BlackBox is Shipping! • Future of GlassFish - CheatSheet for v3, Starting with HK2 - Part I and Part II • Portal - More Comments on LifeRay on GF

Phase Two of the Community Innovation Awards Program is now live. Check the Official Announcement, and our Earlier Writeups. Each community has its own set of rules all within an Overall Program. The GlassFish program is described at the GAP Home Page. Key points include:

• Awards for Best Bug Reports and for Best Projects
• Projects can be based on existing Projects in the GF community or not
• Goal is to grow Community in Size, Quality, Innovation, etc.
• Submission Start Date is Now
• Submission End Date is June 30th
• Results Aug 15th
• 175K$ in prizes.

A slow week; I was still catching up from the Trip to Orlando. • GF Community - New IzPack Installer and GreenFire • HowTo - Combining JMX and Management in GlassFish • New Portal Bundles - Liferay 4.4.0 and GlassFish • Community Programs - Grants Program and Registration Page • Web.Next - GlassFish and Ruby Meetup

We are almost ready with the set of rules for the GlassFish Awards Program. There will be some last minute adjustment on Monday but the $US 175K will be split into two: awards for the best Bug Submissions, and awards for Project Contributions. Check out the Themes and Project Ideas. The shape of the contest has been influenced by constraints on when the money will be available and when it has to be allocated; discussions threads at the Advocacy mailing list.

Unfortunately Sun employees can't apply :-(

Now that most people are back from the holiday's break, we need to close on the GlassFish Grants and Awards Program. If you are interested please check the Original TA post, the two posts at Users@GF ([1], [2]), the threads at the Advocacy@GF alias and the Program Page at our Wiki.

The intention is to design as simple a program as possible, possibly borrowing the programs that other communities are using. We will be using the advocacy mailing list for any further announcements.

Sun has announced a Community Awards Program. This is going to be a multi-year program and this year it covers six communities: OpenOffice.org, OpenSPARC, OpenSolaris, OpenJDK, NetBeans and GlassFish. Each community will define its own program, in particular they can combine awards with grants. The overall guidelines will be described by Simon at his FOSS.IN keynote and we will start working on the GlassFish part of the program in the next few days.