Just curious, since I work for a .edu in the USA.... Regarding OpenSolaris, I seem to have noticed that the bulk of academic-related programs and contests have had a distinct geographic bias towards Asia. I hope I'm mistaken, but I can't help but to think Sun has forsaken (for lack of a better term) the US market for cultivating academic interest in OpenSolaris/Solaris. If so, is it perhaps due to the perception that Linux is already too entrenched in the US edu realm?
/dale On May 17, 2007, at 9:24 AM, joey wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Attached please find the Project proposal for the OpenSolaris > programming contest in China academic developers. Your comments and > backing are appreciated! > > Thanks, > > -- > Joey Guo, University Program Manager > Sun China Engineering & Research Institute > Tel: (86)10-62673245 > Mobile: (86)13701115218 > <//-- Open Source or Die! --> > http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo > http://opentech.org.cn > http://eri.prc/wiki/univ > > OpenSolaris Programming Contest Proposal > > 1. Executive Summary > > This proposal is to organize the OpenSolaris Programming Contest > within academic developers in China. The goal of the programming > contest is to cultivate the OpenSolaris academic developers in > China, as well as grow the OpenSolaris community. The contest will > target at 20,000 Sun Studio active users as well as 20,000 > OpenSolaris registration. As the side result, several Intern > candidates will be selected out of the winners for the Campus > Ambassador program. > > The proposal focuses on China academic developers now, but it can > be easily expanded to academic developers across the world, or even > commercial developers in the future. > > 2. Background > > With the OpenSolaris Curriculum Program, there are over 90 China > universities integrated OpenSolaris into the Operating System > Curricula. Since this January, OpenSolaris Registration Promotion > has been launched on OpenTech website in China and it has attracted > over 14,000 OpenSolaris developers to register and request for > OpenSolaris Starter Kit. Moreover, the success of ACM/ICPC Xi'An > Regional Contest on OpenSolaris has proven the viability of > programming contest using OpenSolaris and Sun Studio. To make the > development environment widely available for new developers, we > have set up the cutting-edge server (unix-center.net) installed > with Solaris and Sun Studio in China. In the past 6 weeks, over > 10,000 people have login this server to try the development > environment. > > 3. The Program > > To enable the contestants to innovate based on OpenSolaris, several > factors are key to the success of the contest: > a. Rules to keep the contest attractive, fair play and innovation- > oriented > b. Effective promotion to catch the right people in right way at > right time > c. Engineering support from the OpenSolaris community and Solaris team > > As the contestant, he/she will attend the contest with the below > procedure: > Register the projects => Attend the free training => Implement the > project => Test the project => Submit the project > >> From the organization point, the below steps are critical: > > (1) Prepare for the contest rules (awards; registration, > implementation and submission rules), advertise plan, supporting > infrastructure (project website and technical advisory board); > > (2) Hold university roadshow to widely spread the contest; > > (3) Offer free training on OpenSolaris programming to academic > developers both on-campus and on-line; > > (4) Provide technical support for the contestant during the project > implementation; > > (5) Evaluate the OpenSolaris contest to choose out winners. > > Once the winners come out, the Campus Ambassador recruiting team > will interview the Intern candidates. > > > 3.1 Contest Rules > > The contestants have to register and submit the work by the deadline. > > 3.1.1 Eligibility > > All university student, undergraduate and postgraduate, are > eligible to the participate the OpenSolaris programming contest. > The contestants will register the contest as a group: > 1) Each group consists of at most 3 players; > 2) The group needs to invite a professor to act as the mentor; > 3) Each group will have to choose a project from our published > project list or propose a new project from their research; > 4) A lead is selected to register the project and submit the source > code on line on behalf of the whole group. > > 3.1.2 Registration > > A successful registration includes: > 1) Each group member has to register a user on opensolaris.org > 2) Submit project proposal and group information on the project page > 3) Request DVD on OpenTech to set up the environment > 4) Register on Unix-center.net to try the development environment > (OpenSolaris and Sun Studio) > > After the registration, the group will be granted with: > 1) A notification e-mail to congratulate their successful > registration; > 2) Under the project page, there will be a repository to contain > all the documents and source code for the project; > > 3.1.3 Implementation > > 1) All source codes, creative or derivative, should be compliant > with the Common Development and Distribute License (CDDL); > 2) The project should be compiled and tested with Sun Studio > (Studio 11, Studio Express or Studio 12 EA); > 3) To ensure the compatibility, all the project should run the > sanity test on unix-center.net; > > 3.1.4 Submission > > 1) The submitted source code should be licensed under CDDL; > 2) All submission should be done on the project page on-line; > 3) The complete submission will include project source code > tarball, demo, user guides, supporting tools, etc.; > 4) The newer submission will replace the existing submission > without the version check tool. > > After the submission, a notification e-mail will send to the lead. > > 3.1.5 Review > > The review team will evaluate the project with the following rules: > 1) Innovation: From the project proposal, implementation, to user > interface, the creative and innovative aspects matter. > 2) Value: Solve existing problem, add new features which can be > used by the community, or even become a future OpenSolaris project. > 3) Effectiveness of problem solving: The submitted implementation > vs. the project proposal. > 4) Code quality: extensibility, maintainability, reliability, > salability, etc. > > The review team consists of influential professors, senior > engineers from Sun and Open Source community. > > 3.2 Attractive Award > > Once registered, everyone is winner. Every registrant will be > granted a set of OpenSolaris Starter Kit and a OpenSolaris T-shirt. > > The awards for the winners will include Campus Ambassador > Internship, Sun Workstation, PDA, iPod and Solaris books. The > rewards for the different ranks are as follows: > > Special prize: Campus Ambassador Internship. The Intern is chosen > out of the winning team. Once the Intern offer is given, he/she > will not be granted with the other gifts as his/her teammate. > (Note: We DO NOT promise all the winning team players will be > chosen as Campus Ambassador. But each team player of the top 10 > winning teams will have the chance to attend the interview and get > the comments. The final candidate will be decided by the Campus > Ambassador recruiting team) > > Rank 1 (1 groups, 3 players): MacBook, certificate > Rank 2 (5 groups, 15 players): Intelligent phone, certificate > Rank 3 (10 groups, 30 players): iPod, certificate > Rank 4 (30 groups, 90 players): Solaris Internals Books, certificate > > Mentor prize (5 professors): Training coupon, certificate > > Student Association prize(3 associations): Collaboration > association, certificate > > 3.3 Promotion > > As we will have to achieve such a big number of participation, > promotion is fairly critical to this contest. The coverage will be > 100,000 people, and of them 20,000 will register as OpenSolaris > users. 1200 groups (or 3600 players at most) are expected to enroll > the contest. > > The professors who are teaching OpenSolaris courses will encourage > their students to attend the contests. We will advertise this > contest from March in some developer community websites, and > emphasize the promotion in universities as below: > > 1) Roadshow in 19 universities; > 2) Promotion activities in 60 universities; > 3) Advertisement on 120 university BBS; > 4) On-line promotion on SDN, OpenTech and other websites > > Besides, we will promote the activities through campus activities > like Sun TechDays and Techtalks by Campus Ambassadors and Student > associations. > > 3.4 Training and Technical support > > 1) Lab courses training by professors; > 2) Open training by Sun engineers on campus; > 3) OpenSolaris/OpenTech as the tutoring website; > 4) Tech talks on Sun University Tour, OpenSolaris Day, TechDays, etc.; > 5) Tech talks by Campus Ambassador and Student association on campus. > > 4. Timeframe (March ?C October 2007) > > The detailed timeline and milestones are marked in the attached > program spreadsheet. Below is the overview: > > 1) Preparation (March - April) > 2) Announcement (April) > 3) Promotion (May - June) > 4) Project Registration (By June 30) > 5) Project Development (July - August) > 6) Review (September) > 7) Intern Selection Interview (October) > > 5. Endorsement Communities > > This project will be endorsed by OpenSolaris Academic and Research > Project and OpenSolaris China Portal. The project homepage and > discussion aliases are in need. > > The initial project leaders are Teresa Giacomini and myself. > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org
