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Sun University Day
Welcome
Hello friends. Let me have this great opportunity and welcome you to Sun Club @ IIITM-Kerala. The objective of this club is to encourage students and teachers to use & share Sun's open source technologies, organize & promote various activities like tech demos & sessions, contests, workshops, seminars and other events orbiting around the world of Sun and it's technologies. So you better fasten your seat belt cause the sun club will take you to an exciting ride which is going to take your breath away.
Please join this Osum Group and strengthen IIITM-K group on this global platform.
Why to Join ?
Well, if you join this group you will be informed about the latest news and happenings regarding Sun Microsystems. Not to mention you will enjoy lot of benefits being part of the group like :
- Discounts on Sun Certification Exams. As Sun Academic Initiative participants you will receive a significant discount on certification exam coupons.
- Chances of getting an Internship at Sun Microsystems.
- You will be "in-the-know" on all the latest and greatest news about Sun developer solutions and technologies and will be kept up-to-date by the Sun Club Team.
- Participate in tech talks, seminars, install feasts, quizzes, programming contests, and Sun sponsored events conducted by the Sun Club.
- Web-based training courses on Java, Solaris, provided by Sun via the Sun Academic Initiative (SAI) Program exclusively to students of SAI Institutes which will get you prepared for industry-leading certification from Sun for obtaining marketable job skills.
Events @ Sun Club
- Sun University Day - on 07 June 08
- SunSPOT : On 17 Apr 08 at 4 PM.
- Netbeans - Desktop Applications : On 12 Mar 08 at 4.00 PM.
- ZFS - Last Name in Filesystems : On 14 Feb 08 at 10:30 AM.
- Opensolaris take 2 : On 31st Jan, at 10:30 AM
- I took a session on SAI and Introduction to OpenSolaris on 24/01/08 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM. Here is the link to the presentation file :
OpenSolaris Introduction. Here is the link to the Sun Academic Initiative file : SAI
Contests @ Sun
Latest News @ Sun
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- Sun to acquire Innotech, popular software VirtualBox developer company. See Here
- Sun gifted sunSPOT kit to IIITM-Kerala. See Here
- Sun acquires world's most popular opensource RDBMS developer company : MySQL See Here
Your Choice
This means that you will decide which topic should be taken for the tech talk/demo session. We'll have online poll on the Sun Club google group. So stay tuned and keep your eyes open for any poll on the group.
Resources
Most frequently used softwares are already uploaded in SAGAR. But that is accessible only through college intranet. If you want more information and want to download, then following are the links :
This is the official website of Sun Microsystems.
This is where you can get all the developer related downloads you may need like source code, tools, etc all for free.
Here you can find lot of help regarding OpenSolaris. Join and talk to the experts directly and get your problem solved. You can also get free OpenSolaris download also. Checkout for Project Indiana due release this March.
NetBeans IDE supports development of all Java application types (J2SE, web, EJB and mobile applications) out of the box. Among other features are an Ant-based project system, version control and refactoring. Also in the latest version it supports Ruby, Ruby on rails, jMaki etc.
New on the ongoing development of Java. You can contribute too !!!
All readers are invited to join the BOSUG (Banglore Open Solaris User Group).
Select a Java project you want to work on and create a user group here. We will be forming a user group here soon.
BeleniX is a modified LiveCD flavor of Solaris, developed at Sun IEC (India Engg. Center) Banglore. It can also boot from a USB drive! But that doesn't mean that it compromises on performance, tools, etc.
The home of GlassFish, a highly optimized open-source Application Server, implementing the latest features of Java Enterprise Edition.
Home page of Apache Derby, and open-source relational database implemented completely in Java.
Star Cast
Contact Professor : Sun Campus Ambassador program
Sun Campus Ambassador
- Ajay Kumar
- Any suggestions or queries, mail me : kumar.a@sun.com
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