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    1. Participation Era, Sun and You Silveira Neto Sun Campus Ambassador Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
    2. Agenda Sun Microsystems Participation Era Open Source Technologies Opportunities And now?
    3. Sun Microsystems ● History: ● 24 February 1982. ● Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. ● Stanford University Network ● Vision: ● The Network is the Computer ● Mission: ● To bridge the digital divide more info at http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/company/index.jsp
    4. Sun Microsystems ● Some numbers: ● 33,350 employees worldwide. ● Fiscal Year 2008 Q2 Revenues: $3.615 billion. ● Sun conducts business in more than 100 countries around the globe. ● #187 on the Fortune 500 (Fortune, 2007) ● #5 Most Admired Companies (Fortune, 2008) more info at http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/company/index.jsp http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2008/industries/24.html
    5. Participation Era Examples ● Wikipedia: ● 9.25 million articles ● 253 languages ● Largest, fastest-growing and most popular general reference work currently available on the Internet. ● Top ten most-visited websites worldwide ● Linux: ● “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow” ● Kernel: 2.4 million source lines of code ● Distribution: 283 million source lines of code more info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
    6. Participation Era Examples • Creative Commons > Copyright alternative > Arts, blogs, music ... • Web 2.0: > Youtube, Orkut, Facebook, Myspace, Flickr ... > openness > freedom > collective intelligence • Sun and Open Source more info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
    7. Sun's Open Source Technologies • Glassfish: http://glassfish.dev.java.net • Open JDK: http://openjdk.java.net • OpenSolaris: http://www.opensolaris.org • JavaFX: http://openjfx.java.net • Netbeans: http://www.netbeans.org • OpenOffice.org: http://www.openoffice.org • OpenSPARC: http://www.opensparc.net/
    8. Sun's Open Source Technologies
    9. Opportunites • Sun Academic Initiative (SAI) > Sun Learning Connection > Free training > Free ePratice > Certifications Discounts > $160 → $60 (US) > $160 → $40 (Latin America and Asia) • Sun Developer Network (SDN) > Worldwide community of developers > Cool stuff and exclusive offers * more info at http://br.sun.com/teleweb/matching_grant
    10. Opportunites • Others opportunites > $1 Mi Open Source Community Innovation Awards > Opensolaris, Netbeans, Opensparc, Glassfish, OpenOffice.org and OpenJDK. > Sun SPOT Open Grant Program • Matching Grant America 2008 Latina > Buy one or two units of Sun Products and receive an additional unit free * > Special offer for academic and research institutions in Latin America > (Until May 31) • Other Opportunities * more info at http://br.sun.com/teleweb/matching_grant
    11. Sun Academmic Initiative • It's easy and free > Talk with your school > Ask a teacher to go at > http://www.sun.com/secure/products- nsolutions/edu/programs/sai/sai.jsp > Fill and submit the registration form. > Wait some time (usualy a month). > Receive the special code for your institution.
    12. • Participate And Now? • Create • Inovate • Meet your local JUG • Meet your local OSUG http://www.sun.com
    13. Thank you! Silveira Neto Sun Campus Ambassador Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil Contact: Mail: jose.neto@sun.com Gtalk/msn: silveiraneto@gmail.com Blog: silveiraneto.net http://flickr.com/photos/barelyfitz/16154197/

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