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,
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Joey Guo, University Program Manager
Sun China Engineering & Research Institute
Tel: (86)10-62673245
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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.
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