Or should we say "Keep your heads down and code for freedom"? Yesterday Sun announced the Code for Freedom contest to commemorate 60 years of India's independence. The contest is open to students in Indian universities and colleges and will run till January 2008. Winners will get laptops and other electronic gizmos, and every contributor will receive a Sun T-Shirt! A contributor is a contestant whose contributed code is accepted back into one (or more) of the five contest areas: OpenSolaris, Project GlassFish, NetBeans, Apache Derby, and OpenPortal.

Details about the contest, how to enter, etc., can be found here .