From Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM Thu Sep 18 19:23:58 2008 From: Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM (Jim Grisanzio) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:23:58 +0900 Subject: [awards-program] [Fwd: [osol-announce] And the winners are ....] Message-ID: <48D30D3E.5000804@sun.com> Announcement out today ... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [osol-announce] And the winners are .... Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:17:21 +0900 From: Jim Grisanzio To: opensolaris-announce 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 B?hm, 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, S?o Paulo, Brazil, Third Prize * Solaris DTrace Screencasts Marcelo da Silva Leal, S?o Paulo, Brazil, Third Prize * Solaris Containers Screencasts Marcelo da Silva Leal, S?o 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, J?rgen 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 -- http://twitter.com/jimgris _______________________________________________ opensolaris-announce mailing list opensolaris-announce at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-announce