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Sun
Microsystems has its
roots deep set in the student community as it was started by four
students and even today it derives a lot of strength and intellectual
property from the student diaspora. And over the years, the student
involvement has increased
Here's
yet another issue of Campus World with news from Indian Campus
Ambassadors from June 2008 to December 2008.
Highlights
of the year which just went by:
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Campus
Ambassador Induction Program @ MSRIT, Bangalore with Gary Serda, Anil
Valluri India GEM VP and 40 Campus Ambassadors from all over the
country in July
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Campus
Ambassador Induction Program II @ Amity University, Noida in September
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Software
Freedom Day Celebrations held all over the country with great pomp and
show in September, 2008
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Open
Source University Meetup (OSUM) launch
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Code For
Freedom (CFF) Contest Launched on Software Freedom Day
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Open
Data Format (ODF) Olympiad launched on Software Freedom Day for school
students
Warm
Welcome to Campus Ambassadors
Campus
Ambassador Induction program, MSRIT, Bangalore
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Code
For Freedom Contest
Code
For Freedom contest, launched last year on the occasion of sixty
years of India's Independence continues its legacy this year, its
bigger and better with really cool prizes like Laptops, Ipod Touch
etc as prizes for winners. It began on 20th September 2008
attracting students from all over the nation to participate in it
with enthusiasm and fervour taking innovation to newer heights,
infused with spirit of free and open software.
Sun
Engineers and Campus Ambassadors have conducted CFF workshops all across the country.
The
participation in CFF is overwhelming as we have more than 800 teams
registered for the contest from all over the country. For more
details, visit
/communities/univ/
codeforfreedom
Software
Freedom Day
Software Freedom Day or SFD is an annual worldwide celebration. As one
of the main sponsors, Sun
Microsystems extended it's full support to SFD 2008 and has done an
outstanding job in evangelizing FOSS in
communities around the world. In India, a whopping 38,527 students
participated in the Software Freedom Day celebrations in various tech
talks, hands on sessions, install fests organised by our Campus
Ambassadors.
Isn't that an amazing feat!!!...
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And here comes something straight from the horse's mouth
“...The plans were made, the weapons sharpened and we were all set to
make this a successful event. The main focus of SFW in our institute
was to reach out to the first and second years students which I think I
succeeded in doing. Starting from the 16th of September,2008, we
conducted one session per day on FOSS, GNU/Linux, OpenSolaris and
finally, on Network and System Administration. At the end of each
session, we conducted a quiz based on the discussion and we gave away
headphones as daily prizes and 2 GB USB sticks to the grand winners.
Day 5 was a lab session where we conducted a Debian GNU/Linux and
OpenSolaris 2008.05 install fest which was finally followed by a
Netbeans hands on session. Luckily, the goodies from Sun arrived on an
hour before our lab session was to begin. I also gave talks on FOSS in
Subodh Public School and MGD Girls Higher Secondary School where I was
surprised to find attendances of 200+ on each occasion!...”
For more, visit http://blogs.sun.com/lalith/
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Software Freedom Day Magazine and Video
Check out the SFD
magazine and the SFD
video from Campus Ambassadors in India.
Awesome
OSUM...
The Open Source University Meetup (OSUM) is a global community of
students that are passionate about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
and how it is Changing (Y)Our World. With more than 40,000 students,
out of which more than 10,000 students are from India who are signed up
at http://osum.sun.com OSUM has
become one of the largest open source developer network for students.
It is a full fledged social networking website where students from all
over the world can interact
and make friends with each other, thus making it a great place to “hang
out”, discuss open source technologies and most importantly brainstorm
over bubbling new, innovative ideas. It has provided the apt and much
needed platform to the budding engineers and open source enthusiasts
world over. By imparting the ability to communicate with thousands
of students who share similar interest and zeal of Open Source, OSUM is
on its way to redefine the outlook of Open Source for student
developers!
Want to be an OSUM
Leader??
Here's an opportunity to be one
for your college.
Click here
for more details.
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