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Faculty Development
Program @RNSIT
Alok
and Srinidhi from Sun conducted FDP for VTU
faculties . 50 + Faculties across karnataka participated for this
event.Ganesh Hiregoudar was the Chief guest for this event.
Awesome India !!!!!!
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Record milestone of 372
OSUM Groups with 23,096 OSUM members.
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Referal contest was
launched at Sun OSUM by Gautaum from Osmania University.
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OSUM Tech Days was
organised by Arunai OSUM Group.
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Code JavaFx India contest
was launched at Sun OSUM
Worldwide
Volunteer Work.
April
18-26 marks Sun's 15th annual Worldwide Volunteer Week (WWVW).
“How
can you change your world with technology, wellness or
sustainability? We'd like to find out!! Sun is here to provide you
with the resources and tools you may need to put together your
volunteer project. You can also join others' projects by connecting
with them on the WWVW Team Leader Club within OSUM.”
The
same spirit was reflected by Campus ambassador team, India which
organised several volunteering projects successfully all across the
country.
There
Volunteer Projects that have been carried out in India are here.
Code
JavaFx contest
Code JavaFX contest was launched
in the month
of February to the students community of India! This contest is aimed
to generate enthusiasm for the JavaFX technology and to encourage
developers to develop and contribute sample applications or games
that demonstrate use of JavaFX in creating rich internet
applications. Check out more on Code JavaFX at /codejavafx.
Sun
engineers traveled across the country to conduct workshops for the
same. The winners have been declared and the first prize has been
bagged by Chinmay Garde from Manipal University.
The
Winner Takes It All...
January
Gautam Muduganti, Osmania University Hyderabad.
Sumanth
V, JNTU Hyderabad.
Saurabh Agarwal, BITS,
Pilani.
February
Niharjyoti
Sarangi, UEC Burla.
Lalit Suresh, MNIT Jaipur
Jay Mahadeokar
and Vasusen Patil, SRKNEC Nagpur.
Vasudha Amrit, MIT Manipal
March
Sampat
Patnaik, JITM.Orissa.
Mahesh Sharma from PICT, Pune.
Dwarkanath
from SASTRA, Tanjavur.
April
Nishank
Gupta, NIT, Jamashedpur
Avinash Joshi , Amritha University,
Kollam
Sushant Kumar , SMVDU, J & K
Fun
Section
Conunrums-
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If fire fighters fight
fires and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight???
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If nothing sticks to
teflon, then how do they make teflon stick to the pan?
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If a black box flight
recorder is never damaged in a plane crash, why dont they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
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Why is there an
expiration date on sour cream?
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Technology
Open House -09
Technology
Open House '09 was held at PESIT, Bangalore on 25th April. It featured technical talks on a wide range of topics
including Sun hardware, Open Solaris, Open Storage, MySQL and more by
experts from Sun Microsystems, technology demonstrations of Sun's
latest products.
As part of the event Panel Discussion on “Enterpreneurship and you” was
held. This fostered the students
to indulge themselves in cut throat business arena.
New
Moves!!!!
Arena for
the engineering
students tounleash
their potential and providing an opportunity to start a business.
http://wikis.sun.com/display/ProjectSunshine/Active+Projects.
( Innovative
Module/ Projects on Education and Training for University Students)
Launched on May 1st , 2009. Currently 160 students are
working on different Sun Technolgoies.
IEC
Open Source Mela
IEC
Bangalore continued its tradition of educating people, of the
benefits of Open Source Software in name of IEC Open Source Mela,
which was organized on March 23rd and 24th,
2009. IEC Open Source Mela aimed at promoting the usage of Open
Source Software.
Campus
ambassadors Nischal from RVCE, Vittal from RNSIT and Nitin from UVCE
put up their stall to demonstrate the features of Sun SPOTs.
There
were contests like 'Business Plan' and
'Blogging
Contest', open
for all Sun Employees and had participation from both Sun Employees and Campus Ambassadors. Vittal P, RNSIT bagged the third place in
the Blogging contest.
Rajesh
Umashankar and Ganesh
Hiregoudar submitted a business plan on "Software Insurance
product – ECSTACY".
VTU
EduSAT Program
The
training sessions being conducted by Sun Microsystems under the aegis
of the VisvesvarayaTechnological University – Edusat
Programme,Karnataka. The total of 12 live sessions on OpenSPARC and
JAVAFX was conducted by IEC Engineers and can be found in
http://elearning.vtu.ac.in, which thestudent community benefited a
lot.
Things
to look forward to...
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Sun University Day –
Corona
Will be conducted at
MSRIT, RNSIT, BMSCE, UVCE,Bangalore.
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IMPETUS – Summer Project.
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OpenSolaris June edition.
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Netbeans 6.7.
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Java One, Community One
OSUM
on CHIP Magazine!!!
Comprehensive
information on OSUM was published in CHIP Magazine Feb 2009 edition.
This effort was led by Kumar Abhishek from SASTRA university.
Riddles
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Marking mortal privation,
when firmly in place. An enduring summation, inscribed in my face. What
am I?
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What
common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its
letters?
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I
have holes on the top and bottom. I have holes on my left and on my
right. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. What
am I?
Editorial:
An
adventurous, bold, exciting and start to the year 2009 with lots of
action, technology and adrenaline rush while our Campus Ambassadors
geared up to revolutionize Open Source Technologies and to spread the
message of Sun Microsystems far and wide across the length and
breadth of the country.
As
we near the end of a power packed year, things got even better with a
sprinkle of Social service, FOSS conferences, contests, Sun Tech
Days, meeting the rulers of the technological world etc. to name a
few.
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