[advocacy-discuss] [Fwd: [osol-announce] And the winners are ....]

Fri Sep 19 08:26:47 PDT 2008

This is awesome Jim!!  I will twitter, blog, see if I can get winners 
posted on SDN site, and in a couple of Sun Newsletters.

-Terri

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> What's really cool about this program -- aside from it a being 
> painfully long learning experience for some of us -- is that we got 
> global participation. Congrats to those involved, and special thanks 
> to those who helped. If anyone has any feedback or opinions on any 
> aspect of the awards program, get it out on list here. If Sun does 
> this again, we should send them some suggestions for improvement ...  :)
>
> Jim
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[awards-program] [Fwd: [osol-announce] And the winners are 
> ....]
> Date: 	Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:23:58 +0900
> From: 	Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM>
> To: 	awards-program at opensolaris.org
>
>
> Sun has announced the winners of the OpenSolaris Community Innovation 
> Awards: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-09/sunflash.20080918.1.xml. 
> More details here on opensolaris.org project: 
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/awards/
>
> For the last 10 months the OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards 
> Project, which is part of the Advocacy Community, has been running a 
> program to give away $175,000 to contest winners and students doing 
> undergraduate research. Program activities took place in the open on 
> multiple forums within the community. Entries ranged broadly to include 
> code and non-code contributions -- artwork, documentation, websites, 
> distributions, tools, and applications. Also, participants got involved 
> from a variety of countries around the world, and many of them are 
> continuing to work on their projects in the community.
>
> We are proud to announce the winners here:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Contest Winners
>   http://opensolaris.org/os/project/awards/awards_land/Entries/
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     * Genunix.org: A high bandwidth community download facility
>       Al Hopper, Plano, Texas, USA, Grand Prize
>
>     * Port NX+freenx to Solaris x86
>       Roberto Dircio, Mexico Distrito Federal, Mexico, First Prize
>
>     * Super with SuperScheduler and SuperWatchdog
>       Wei Jiang, Ashburn, Virginia, USA, First Prize
>
>     * cayac
>       David Galan Ortiz, Madrid, Spain, First Prize
>
>     * Small OpenSolaris Live Distro
>       Alexander Eremin, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation, Second Prize
>
>     * RAM based boot for BeleniX 0.7
>       Shampavman Chengeri, Bangalore, India, Second Prize
>
>     * SMF Manifest Creator
>       Ricardo Severo and Diogo Luiz Böhm, Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil,
>       Third Prize
>
>     * phpEasyTools
>       David Galan Ortiz, Madrid, Spain, Third Prize
>
>     * Bluetooth stack for OpenSolaris in user space
>       Anand Bheemarajaiah, Bangalore, India, Third Prize
>
>     * Zetaback
>       Theo Schlossnagle, Columbia, Maryland, USA, Third Prize
>
>     * Sun Cluster agent for ZFS/NFS HA using non-shared discs
>       Marcelo da Silva Leal, São Paulo, Brazil, Third Prize
>
>     * Solaris DTrace Screencasts
>       Marcelo da Silva Leal, São Paulo, Brazil, Third Prize
>
>     * Solaris Containers Screencasts
>       Marcelo da Silva Leal, São Paulo, Brazil, Third Prize
>
>     * Making useful syscalls into executables
>       Paul Armstrong, Mountain View, California, USA, Third Prize
>
>     * SolView - Solaris Information Viewer
>       Peter Tribble, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, Third Prize
>
>     * Small Solaris Network Attached Storage live image (EON)
>       Andre S. Lue, Fresh Meadows, New York, USA, Third Prize
>
>     * Art Installation: "Defero Inuctus: community united"
>       Tamarah Ann Rockwood, Tracy, California, USA, Third Prize
>
>     * Introduction to Operating Systems Slide Show
>       Kurchi Subhra Hazra, West Bengal, India, Third Prize
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Student Research Grant Winners
>   http://opensolaris.org/os/project/awards/awards_research_land/Proposals/
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     * DVD Authoring System for Open Solaris
>       Igor Struchkov, Vladimir Omelin
>       Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Saint-Petersburg,
>       Russia
>
>     * Image Storage and Retrieval in OpenSolaris
>       Sanjiv K. Bhatia, Antonin Brjetchka, Drew Garrett, Dante Avery
>       University of Missouri - Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
>
>     * Application Flow Controller
>       Huang Liqun, Zhou Li, Zhao Jinhua, Zhou Bin, Zhang Yu
>       Huazhong universty of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
>
>     * A study of the Zettabyte File System (ZFS)
>       Goutam Sanyal, Kurchi Subhra Hazra, Tania Hamid
>       National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India
>
>     * OpenxVM Research
>       Dinesh Naik, Ashwin Bhat K S, Balaji Rao R
>       National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
>       Antagonistic GA applied to Dynamic Data Sets
>       Alex Aravind, Joseph Jeffery, Steven Mclea
>       University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada
>
>
> The Judges: Judging the awards program was a community effort. Special 
> thanks to the following community members for their time and expertise: 
> Tony Su, Alex Sims, Jürgen Pabel, Rich Reynolds, Bill Rushmore, Derek 
> Cicero, Max Bruning, Randy Fishel, Mike Pogue, Jeff Cheeney, Chris 
> Phelan, Nico Williams.
>
> The Project Team: Over a dozen people at Sun and in the community 
> participated in specifying and implementing the OpenSolaris Community 
> Awards Program -- everything from creating the rules, setting up the 
> project spaces and lists, publicizing the effort among community 
> members, dealing with the media, working with entrants, managing the 
> flow of applications, judging, and interfacing with Sun. Here are the 
> members of core team who ran the project at various stages: Alta Elstad, 
> Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio, James Lui, Teresa Giacomini, Wendy Ames, 
> Linda Bernal, Jesse Silver, Ben Rockwood.
>
> Jim
>
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