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CampusWorld
(March 2008 - June 2008)

The Campus Ambassador program in India recorded another successful quarter of promoting the adoption of Sun's open source technologies. This edition of CampusWorld captures glimpses of the program's activities through this quarter.

Open Up and Innovate!

Sun believes that academic contests and tech events are a great way to foster innovation among student developers.

CORONA Week at SMVDU College in Jammu and
Kashmir was held between 25th–30th April by Sushant Kumar and team. The weeklong event included a quiz, a programming contest, and sessions on OpenSolaris, NetBeans, and Sun SPOTs. The event was a resounding success and 35 students have opted to work on Sun technologies for their summer projects. Several students have opted for Java, JSP, MySQL, and Sun SPOT for their projects. For details, see
http://blogs.sun.com/sk

Open Source Grand Challenge featured 10 of the
hottest new buzzwords in open source: OpenSolaris, NetBeans, Java, OpenOffice, Sun Studio, Project GlassFish,JavaDB, SunSPOTs, OpenPortal, JavaFX, and JRuby. This event spanned over 30 days from February 20th to March 23rd 2008. This event had 3256 participants from 23 colleges.

Sun University Day at the SRM university on 6th March 2008 provided students with an opportunity to interact with and be inspired by Sun's leaders. Nageswara (KNR) Rao, Site Lead of Sun Indian Engineering Centre was the chief guest for the occasion. His inspiring keynote opened up many minds to the world of open source. Over 2000 students attended this event.

Sun University Day @ SRM
Sun University Day at SRM

For a detailed report on this event and more pictures, see
http://blogs.sun.com/bipallav/entry/h1_b_sun_university_day

As part of the Sun GURU program, IEC engineers (with the help of Max Bruning) developed OpenSolaris courseware for a threeday training (available on www.opensolaris.org). 85 professors from 40 colleges were trained on OpenSolaris.

OpenSPARC workshops were held at RVVLSI center Bangalore, NIT Trichy, BVB
Hubli, Anna University, NIT Calicut, DAIICT Gandhinagar, and at Amrita University Amritapuri.

Virtual InstallFest of Open Solaris release candidate 0 was conducted at JIIT, Noida by Angad Singh and at SASTRA by Kumar Abhishek.

Install Fest
Virtual lnstallFest at JIIT

JARGON was a national-level Java programming event held on 8th February 2008 at the I2IT college in Pune.

JARGON Java Programming Event in I2IT

Sun Java Challenge was a National-level
Core Java event organized by Saumil BipinBhai Mehta from GEC, Gandhinagar. 86 teams ( 275 students) from 26 colleges attended this event.

DAKSH, a daylong workshop, was organized at SASTRA on 24th February 2008.

DAKSH 2008

Sun Week was held at Thapar University from 4th to 11th March 2008. This event included talks and handson sessions on OpenSolaris, Java, Linux kernel programming, J2ME, and ZFS.

Horisun`08 was held at CIT, Coimbatore. A Java Guru contest, Open Quiz, and a mock technical interview were part of this workshop attended by around 300 students.

ConfER 2008, the first National Conference on Education & Research, was conducted by VIT. Series of lectures, workshops and talks on open source marked yet another successful event.

Students of SASTRA university had a Birthday Bash for OpenSolaris on May 5th 2008. Watch the video at: http://blogs.sun.com/krabhishek/entry/and_that_s_how_gloss

Sun Technology Workshop was a part of Apogee 2k8, the annual technical festival (12th to 14th March, 2008) at BITS, Pilani.

The JumpStart program for campuses was held by NIIT, Sun's education partner. The objective of the program was to drive adoption of Solaris and NetBeans at campuses across India. This program included a oneday handson training program on OpenSolaris and a oneday training program on Java with NetBeans. Over 13,000 students have been trained so far. In addition, Faculty Development programs are being held in small towns and cities and over 300 faculty members from 62 colleges have been trained.

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