Dragon Versus Hydra Coding Competition- Software Development in Java

Event: Dragon versus Hydra Coding Competition (Website)

Organized By: N-BRAIN Inc.

Key Dates:
Application deadline: July 21, 2008
Contest Begins: August 4, 2008

The Code Project Random Programming Competition, Summer 2008

Event: The Code Project Random Programming Competition, Summer 2008 (Website)

Organized by: The Code Project (Website)

Key Dates:
Submissions must be made between: July 1, 2008 and August 31, 2008

The Great Mind Challenge 2008- IBM Academic Initiative

Event: The Great Mind Challenge-2008 (TGMC) (Website)

Organized by: IBM Academic Initiative

Key Dates:
Deadline for Registrations: August 20, 2008
Deadline for Synopsis Submission: September 15, 2008
Deadline for Project Submission: November 1, 2008

Google Code Jam 2008, Code in your preferred environment

Suggested By Priya Venkateshan

Event: Google Code Jam 2008 (Website)

Organized By: Google Inc.

Key Dates:
Deadline for Registration: July 17, 2008
24 hour Qualification Round Begins: July 16, 2008
Online Round 1 Begins: July 25, 2008
Online Round 2: August 2, 2008
Online Round 3: August 9, 2008
Detailed Schedule here.

Intellivision Programming Contest 2008

Event : Intellivision Programming Contest 2008 ( Website)

Organized by: Intellivision

Key Dates:
Deadline for submission of the game: November 1st,2008

Intel Game Demo Contest 2008

Event:Intel Game Demo Contest 2008(Website)

Organized by : Intel Software Network

Key Dates :
Last date to upload Screen shots : July 1st,2008
Contest terminates on : July 28th, 2008

Sun Grand Challenge

Event: Sun Grand Challenge (Website)

Organized By:
Sun Club, DA-IICT

Key Dates: (Contest Calendar)
OpenOffice: Feb 20-22
Java: Feb 23-25
Googleable contest on Sun SPOTS: Feb 26-28
Sun Studio: Feb 29-Mar 2
OpenSolaris: Mar 3-5
Apache Derby: Mar 6-8
OpenPortal: Mar 9-11
Netbeans: Mar 2-14
Project Glassfish: Mar 15-17
Googleable contest on JavaFX and Jruby: Mar 18-20

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.

1. Read the rules and the FAQs.
2. Register for the contest.
3. Choose your open source project and know how to contribute: (OpenSolaris,Project GlassFish, NetBeans, Apache Derby, OpenPortal)
4. Join the http://groups.google.com/group/CodeForFreedom forum. You can post all your technical queries to this alias and participate in the Code For Freedom contest discussions.
5. Once you have installed the software and compiled the source code, you can request for a mentor from Sun. The mentor will help you thru the rest of the code contribution process.
6. Submit your contribution.
7. For any non-technical queries on code for freedom contact codeforfreedom@sun.com
   

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