This issue of CampusWorld brings you the news and latest happenings of the student community from all across India with lots of other interesting stuff too. So what are you waiting for? Dive in!!..

Highlights

• Sun Tech Days 2009

• Events Galore.

• OSUM

• New moves

• World Wide Volunteer Week

• Code JavaFX Contest

• IEC Open Source Mela

• Technology Open House.

• Rewards and Recognition

• Fun section.

Sun Tech days 2009, Hyderabad

Sun Tech Days 2009 held at Hyderabad was a great success with thousands of students participating in it from all over the country.

• Witnessed a record milestone of 100 new Osum Groups with 1000 members joined Osum community .

• Key projects were showcased and demonstrated by CA's at University Stall.

• Faculties from our CA's Institutes participated in Academic Round Table.

• Jay Mahadeokar and Lalith Suresh gave lightning talks and Kumar Abhishek talked Open Source entrepreneurship on the University Day.

• Kavya Dharmarajan, MSRIT and her team, Lalith Suresh and Jay Mahadeokar demonstrated their projects at the project stall.

• Campus ambassadors also got a chance to meet and interact with Joe Hartley, Vice President, Global Education department.

University Day @ Sun Tech Days

Campus Ambassadors & Faculties with Joe Hartley

Technical Fests

• Dwarkanath J from SASTRA University had organised a JavaFX workshop. Engineers from Sun conducted the workshop. He also conducted lot of demos on various sun technologies during DAKSH. 6000 students participated for DAKSH.

• Karthik from NIT, Trichy had organised a JavaFX workshop. Engineers from Sun conducted the workshop.He also conducted lot of demos on various sun technologies during Tech Fest .4000 students participated for Tech Fest.

• Karthik kulkarni from BVB Hubli conducted a workshop on JavaFX as part of the National level tech fest, ‘Pleiades-09. Students from 10 different colleges participated for this event.

• Manoj from CIT,Coimbatore had organised “HORISUN” event. Kumar Abhishek from Sastra gave a talk during Horisun. 500 students participated during HORISUN.

• Avinash and Sun club team from Amrita University had organised a National Level FOSS Conference - FOSSTER '09 at Amritapuri Campus . The event was inaugurated by K. Nageshwara Rao, Site Lead,IEC.Sun Engineer Tirthankar gave talk on Open HA Clusters and Mayuresh gave a talk on introduction to OpenSolaris.

• Mahesh Sharma from PICT Pune had conducted Programming contest, OSUM registrations and installation fest during his Tech fest.

• Vasudha Amrit, MIT Manipal Induction of GlassFish and J2EE in curriculum, JavaFX workshop.

• Sumanth, JNTU Hyderabad organised tech fest Quest 09. Sun Engineers Ravi and Pankaj gave a talk on MySQL. 300  students participated for this workshop.

• Shashank Shekhar, VIT Vellore organised Sun Tech Day with three tracks with Sun engineers Gowtham Thommandra Nirmal Agarwal, Vadiraj Deshpande, Amit Saha, Varun Rupela and Blessan.Mathews and Lawrence Premkumar. 400 students from VIT participated for Sun Tech Day.

• Kunal Kapoor, IITM Gwalior Student Technology camp with Sun engineer Ajay Ahuja.

• Niharjyoti Sarang, UCE Burla organised technical talk during tech fest with Abhishek.
  

• Prabit mishra from NIT,Rourkela had organised Confluence2K9. He conducted lots of demos, contests on Sun Technologies.

• Rakesh from BITS, Goa had organized a technical talk, Contest during his college Tech fest.
  

• Rohinder Singh from College of technology, Pantnagar had organised OSS Camp. 150 participated in this event.