Code For Freedom

The free and open source movement is emerging as the new world order in the technology sector across the world. Today, free and open source products such as Apache Web Server, OpenOffice.org and GNU/Linux have dwarfed several proprietary software products.

Sun Microsystems, a front-runner in supporting free and open source software and one of the largest contributors to this movement, takes this opportunity to invite the young, dynamic academic community of India to come and become a part of this exciting free and open source wave. Sun encourages everyone to take this opportunity to learn about free and open source technologies and make contributions by developing applications that make use of these free and open source technologies.

Sun Microsystems is happy to announce the Code For Freedom 2008 contest where students across India will contribute to the technologies that are empowering the Participation Age. One can gain valuable industry experience while at college by participating in this contest. And there is more. Sun in turn will reward you for your valuable contributions towards the free and open source movement.
This year, Sun has a new format which is designed to generate enthusiasm for open source software technology and to encourage academic developers to contribute software applications that demonstrate use and adoption of various Sun open source technologies. The contest is open to any college student in India and provides many exciting prizes. Students are required to submit complete project implementations that use at least two Sun open source technologies and are developed using either Netbeans or Sun Studio. For more details, please visit http://in.sun.com/codeforfreedom.