Sun India is building strong student communities around Sun's free and open source platforms.
Here is a roundup of the Sun Campus Ambassador program activities in India from July 2007 until now. Kudos to the ever enthusiastic campus
ambassadors and the Sun engineers who volunteered to be campus coordinators and mentors!
Free Your Mind
The Code for Freedom (CFF) contest enables students across India to contribute to the technologies that are empowering the Participation Age. The contest was launched on August 15th 2007, to coincide with India's 60th
Independence day. Students can contribute to OpenSolaris, NetBeans, Project GlassFish, OpenPortal and Apache Derby. Prizes include laptops, iPods, USB sticks, tshirts, and certificates.
Sun engineers and NIIT conducted sessions to spread awareness about CFF. NIIT, Sun's education partner in India, assigned a team to
support CFF. About 3000 participants registered for the contest. The response has been tremendous. We have received 119 contributions to OpenSolaris, 45 contributions to NetBeans, 13 for Derby, and two for OpenPortal. This makes Sun India the trailblazer with the most number of contributions to Sun's open source projects.
Contest Website
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Coming Up Next...
The next few months promise to be as exciting as the ones gone by. Watch out for the following events in 2008!
The Sun Grand Challenge contest starts on 15th February 2008. Nine colleges will participate in this 30-day long mega event.
Poster for Sun Grand Challenge (created by Ankit)
Open source foundry at SASTRA University in February 2008
The VTU-EDUSAT lecture series on Sun technologies starts from February 15th 2008 in Bangalore.
Sun Tech Days at Hyderabad on February 27th - 29th 2008
4-day Java workshop at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad
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