CodePoint 2008 – Greenfoot Coding contest

Organized By:
University of Kent at Canterbury (UK) and Deakin University Melbourne (Australia), funded by Sun Microsystems.

Key dates:
Submissions have already started.
Last date for submission: November 30, 2008

ODF Olympiad for Schools- Presentation Contest

ODF Olympiad for Schools

Organised By:
Dept. of Management Studies, IIT Delhi and
Sun Microsystems

Key Dates:
Deadline for submitting the Presentations: November 15, 2008

For Whom:
School students upto class-12

Sun Microsystems Announces Code For Freedom 2008

Sun Code For Freedom 2008

Organised By: Sun Microsystems

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submission of Project Proposal: December 31, 2008
Contest Ends: April 30, 2009
Winners Announced: June 14, 2009

Participate in MySQL and GlassFish Review contest and win $500

Event: MySQL and GlassFish Student Review contest (Website)

Organized By: Sun Microsystems

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submissions: October 22, 2008

For Whom:
Participant must be enrolled as a student pursuing a degree in an educational institute

Sun-Ericsson IMS client-server application Competition

Suggested by Ashwin Bhat

Event: Sun-Ericsson Application Competition (Website)

Organised By: Sun Microsystems and Sony Ericsson

Key Dates:
Deadline for Entry Submissions:September 30, 2008

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

NetBeans Blogging Contest

Suggested By Ashwin Bhat

Event: NetBeans IDE 6.1 Blogging Contest (Website)

Sponsored By: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Key Dates:
Contest starts: March 14, 2008
Contest deadline: April 18, 2008
Judging period: April 19 – May 12, 2008
Winners announced: May 12, 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

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

OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Program

Program: OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Program (Website)

Organized By: OpenSolaris community and Sun Microsystems

Key Dates:
Deadline for Registrations: March 1, 2008
Contest: January 29 – June 15, 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.

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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