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Sun Microsystems, Inc., and the GlassFish, NetBeans,
OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris and OpenSPARC communities today
announced details on how developers and community members can
participate in the individual Open Source Community Innovation Awards programs. Each community, as outlined below, will have its own program rules and judging criteria.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), and the GlassFish, NetBeans,
OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris and OpenSPARC communities today
announced details on how developers and community members can
participate in the individual Open Source Community Innovation Awards programs. Each community, as outlined below, will have its own program rules and judging criteria.
In any Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, collaboration
and creativity are central to its success in engaging developers and
fostering innovation. The six participating communities have been
involved from the beginning in the design of their programs and will
also be involved in their administration. Even as the program gets
underway, developers are already thinking through potential entries.
"Sun hopes that the opportunity for individual developers to be
recognized for their contributions will also drive a wave of excitement
and collaborative energy, which will help to power these communities
toward greater innovation, participation and growth," said Simon
Phipps, chief open source officer, Sun Microsystems.
The six communities have been asked by Sun to direct $175,000 (USD)
of cash awards for their program. The only restriction is that Sun
employees are not eligible to participate. Sun is paying all
administrative costs of the program. Prize winners will be announced in
August 2008 and payments made by the end of September 2008. Pointers
for all of these programs can be found at http://www.sun.com/opensource/awards.
GlassFish
The GlassFish Awards Program (GAP)
is designed to encourage and recognize innovation and community
participation with GlassFish-related activities and contributions. The
project this year encourages software contributions, local activities
from communities throughout the world, bug reports, blueprints or
documentation and course ware. One or more prizes will be awarded to
the entrants who submit the best entries as determined by the judges in
accordance with the GAP Official Rules.
NetBeans
The Dreams of Reality: NetBeans Innovator's Grants
will help developers bring their NetBeans-related projects to life
through a grant-based work program. Open source developers can submit
project ideas ranging from extra NetBeans modules, fixing Integrated
Development Environment issues and bugs, documentation and adoption
material, translations, to NetBeans platform applications, and more. A
panel of judges selected by the NetBeans Community will select the best
proposals based on criteria of importance for NetBeans, impact on
NetBeans adoption, importance for the NetBeans community, completeness
of the proposal and integration with existing open source projects. For
more details: http://www.netbeans.org/grant.
OpenJDK
OpenJDK Community Innovator's Challenge
is intended to encourage and reward developers working together in
solving key problems, initiating new innovative projects that promote
new uses for the code, developing curricula and training, and porting
the OpenJDK code base to new platforms. The OpenJDK challenge will run
in two phases: the proposal phase and the project phase. A panel of
judges will choose from submitted proposals up to seven finalists to
enter the project phase. The judges will rank the completed projects
and all completed projects will receive an award, based on their
ranking. For more information please visit http://openjdk.java.net/challenge.
OpenOffice.org
The goal of the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Award Program
is to foster community development and innovation. All projects must be
able to be subsequently worked on by the community and all work must be
abide by OpenOffice.org's license scheme. There are six categories for
this program: Technical, Community, Tools, OpenDocument Format (ODF),
Documentation and Special. The OpenOffice.org Community Council is the
final judge of the program and coordination of the judging will be done
by a committee made up of some of its members. The Community Awards
Program Committee includes: Louis Suárez-Potts (Sun), Pavel Janík
(independent), John McCreesh (independent) and Stefan Taxhet (Sun). For
program details: http://development.openoffice.org/community_innovation_program.html
OpenSolaris
The OpenSolaris Community Awards Project
features a $100,000 open call for innovation and a $75,000 student
research program. The awards will recognize outstanding or innovative
contributions to the OpenSolaris community, with 25 $1,000 second
prizes, three $15,000 first prizes, and a $30,000 grand prize. There
are no categories for submission. Winning projects could include code,
video, documentation or others. The student research program will fund
student-professor research collaborations, focused on OpenSolaris, at
universities across the globe. Visit http://opensolaris.org/os/awards/ to participate.
OpenSPARC
The OpenSPARC Project Awards
program will include eight categories and award amounts, ranging from
$20,000 to $30,000 for the grand prize winner. The OpenSPARC awards
program will be judged by a jury panel of industry experts selected
from within the OpenSPARC community and representing a diverse
background of expertise and experience. Judging will use an objective
point-based system. For details of the program: www.opensparc.net
About Sun and Open Source
Sun Microsystems made a public commitment to Free and Open Source
software and in doing so has contributed billions of dollars, as well
as more code, to Free software than any other organization in the
public or private sector. In addition to leveraging many industry-wide
open source projects, Sun has taken the unique step of opening its core
software, hardware and storage technologies and sharing them as Free
and open source. This action enables Sun to build its products through
the preferred means of co-production and to grow the potential market
for Sun products and services by directly attracting users to a free
platform, while allowing developers the freedom to identify new
opportunities and therefore new markets for the technologies. For more
information about Sun's open source projects visit: sun.com/opensource
To follow program updates and major developments, visit: http://www.sun.com/opensource/awards
Read the original article: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash.20080129.2.xml
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