Opensolaris Academic Programming Contest
2008 OpenSolaris Undergraduate Student Research Grant Program
The 2008 OpenSolaris Undergraduate Student Research Grant Program projects are complete.
Take a look at the Grant Winners.
2007 OpenSolaris Academic Programming Contest in China
Although Solaris is one of the most innovative OSes in the world, Open"Solaris" is trying to extend and expand the Innovation everywhere. That's the fact what we did in the OpenSolaris Academic Programming Contest in China. Not only thousands of students engaged in the events or development, but also they came up with quite some innovative projects.
Starting from April 2007, we kicked off the OpenSolaris programming contest during the China Education and Research Conference in Beijing. We announced and promoted this contest to over 120 universities through online platform. Afterwards, we held the contests roadshows in 19 top universities, over 2500+ students attended the roadshow and they were interested in the contest.
In the following weeks, over 260 teams (up to 3 people each team) registered the contests. All of them registered on OpenSolaris and submitted their project proposal. Besides, every participant created an account on Unix-Center.net to experience the Solaris development platform.
To provide plenty of technical support to the students, we conducted the open courses in China Academy of Science. Over 80 students took the courses, and much more students watched the course videos online. In addition, the mail-list for the questions did work well for them.
With the support of OpenSolaris and OpenTech communities, about 90 teams accomplished the development and submitted their projects successfully. Of them, we reviewed, judged and selected out 15 top projects as the winning projects.
During the Beijing and Shanghai TechDays, some winning teams demonstrated the projects to Ian Murdock, Jim Hughes, Jim Grisanzio, etc. They were very impressed the projects submitted by the students and encouraged them to proceed the further development on OpenSolaris. For more details of the innovation by students, please go through the below projects:
Contest Result
First Grade Prize:
Vacancy
Second Grade Prize:
Third Grade Prize:
- USBJS
- DTrace Graphic
- STV
- Xdown4scpc
- Google-Breakpad for Solaris
- pvfs
- Graphical User Interface of DTrace
- PinkFrog
- Fastgrep
- FuncViz
Project Proposal
For more details about the contest, please view the Proposal.
Project Mail-list
To participate the discussion, please subscribe the mail-list at: contest-discuss.