Students Review Contest- Write on OpenSolaris OS/ NetBeans IDE 6.1

Event: Student Reviews Contest- NetBeans 6.1 and OpenSolaris OS (Website)
Organized By: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Key Dates:
Contest Begins: May 5, 2008
Deadline for Contest: June 6, 2008
Judging Period: June 7- June 20, 2008
Winner’s announced: June 25, 2008

FOSSMeet@NITC 2008

Event: FOSSMeet @ NITC 2008 (Website)
Organised By:
NIT Calicut Student Branches of IEEE, CSI, CSEA and GLUGC
Key Dates:
Event Dates: April 4-6, 2008

Great Indian Developer Summit

Event: Great Indian Developer Summit (Website)
Venue: National Science Symposium Complex (NSSC),Bangalore
Key Dates:
Event :May 19-23,2008

Google Summer of Code 2008

Event: Google Summer of Code (Website)
Organized By: Google
Key Dates:
Deadline for Accepting Applications for Mentoring Organization: March 12, 2008
Accepting Applications for Student: March 24, 2008 Onwards
Deadline for student Applications: March 31, 2008

Sun Tech Days: WorldWide Developer Conference

Event: Sun Tech Days (Website)

Organized By: Sun Microsystems
Venue: Hyderabad International Convention Center
Key Dates:
Event: February 27-29, 2008

Mukti ‘08: Technical Symposium on Linux and FOSS

Suggested by Prabhu Hari

Event: Mukti ‘08 (Website)
Organised By: Linux User’s Group, NIT Durgapur
Key Dates:
Fest: February 16-17, 2008
Deadline for abstract submission: January 27, 2008
Online Programming contest: February 2 - 9, 2008

Code for Freedom

Suggested by Ashwin Bhat

Event: Code for Freedom Contest (Website)
Organised by: Sun Microsystems India
Key Dates:
Contest Period: August 15, 2007-February 14, 2008
Results: March 2008
For Whom:
You can participate in this contest if you are a student from a recognized university in India.

Read the rules and the FAQs.
Register for the contest.
Choose your open source project and know how to [...]

FOSS.IN 2007

Suggested by Ashwin Bhat
Event: FOSS.IN, National Science Symposium Centre of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Website)
Key Dates:
“Project Days” - December 4-5, 2007 (Tue and Wed)
The Main Conference - December 6-8, 2007 (Thu, Fri, and Sat)
For Whom:
Someone who possesses skills such as coding, testing, documentation, etc. that are useful for a FOSS (Free and [...]