Dr. Helge Meinhard

Dr. Helge Meinhard (Technical Co-ordinator for Server Procurements IT Department – CERN). He is talking about Grid computing at large hadron collider

Second day of European ERC, Berlin 2009

This morning started by the opening speech of Joe Hartly. He then invited March Hamilton and now he is talking about Sun’s HPC growth target and strategy.

Beginning of second day, Joe Hartly is making an opening speech.

Marc Hamilton is talking about Sun’s HPC Growth Target

End of Marc Hamilton’s speech. He gave us great ideas about HPC technology and the road map.

Christian Frei, ERC 2009

Listen what Christian Frei, (General Manager of Keynode AG, Keynode is provider of JAZOON.COM) said about OSUM and his personal advices for students.

Sun European ERC Conference in Berlin

Today we  safely arrived to our hotel in Berlin city center and looking forward to meet with people who has lots of great ideas and experiences to share with us. The first big thing for us is that; we (Gokhan and Alper) will be speaking in opening speech by Joe Hartley – Vice President – Government, Education, Healthcare, Sun Microsystems about Sun’s Value Proposition to Education. We will both introduce our projects which we have spent 4 months together with our international teams back in home, KTH- Stockholm.

We are getting more and more excited, please stay tuned and fallow our blog for videos and new entries.

Open Source Networking Project

A team of international student and Sun Campus ambassador Alper Celik, developed an open source networking solution at KTH – Stockholm, which converts a regular PC into a router !!!

OpenCASE is an Open Source project. This project’s outcome is a whole network solution completely based on open source software. Using OpenCASE solution, regular PCs can be turned into routers. But not only that, they can also run networking services like Network Administration, Traffic Monitoring, DNS, Web Server and so on.

Open source networking solution, which is 70% cheaper than proprietary alternatives in the market, developed to help capacity building in African Research and Education Networks. Open Case’s software, which is completely free, customizable and open for further improvements, has been developed to be used in regular PCs. The software provides complete network systems that include not only the routing but also the management and security means. Comparison tests against well known network companies’ products gave great results and proved what our technology can truly deliver on the promises of internet today.

If you are interested please have a look at to project web site. You can find our final report from here: http://www.tslab.ssvl.kth.se/csd/projects/0821116/sites/default/files/FinalReport.pdf

KTH and Atilim OSUM Clubs are now partners

We are happy to announce that KTH OSUM and Atilim OSUM clubs are now partners. We encourage our members to join both OSUM clubs and enjoy making new friends.

As all of you know, the philosophy behind OSUM is to be active inside the “learn-share-make community” triangle. In this perspective, we are happy to partner with different OSUM clubs all around the world and extend our network. This will also help our members in Sweden to learn new things and make new friends.

Please join our partner network for more information.

KTH OSUM: http://osum.sun.com/group/kthOSUM
Atilim OSUM: http://osum.sun.com/group/atilimuniversitycomputerclupaac

Open Developer Conference, Oslo

Do you work on an innovative project based on FOSS technology? Have you experience with FOSS Communities and how they can change the nature of traditional project success ?
• Development and deployment in the cloud and virtualization
• Social networks and Web 2.0 trends
• RIAs, scripting, and tools
• Dynamic languages, databases, and Web and application servers
• Open-source projects, business models, and trends
• And more
Send an 150word (max) abstract to CommunityOne-Oslo@sun.com

We’re opening our doors. CommunityOne is an open developer conference sponsored by Sun Microsystems. After two capacity years in San Francisco, we’re rolling out the red carpet in Oslo in April. What can you expect at CommunityOne? No marketing hype or selling tactics, just the opportunity to evaluate open-source projects that span languages (Java(TM), PHP,Groovy, AJAX, Ruby, Python), operating systems (OpenSolaris(TM), Linux, Android), Web and application servers (GlassFish(TM), Apache), databases (MySQL(TM)), services, and more. And you can attend the CommunityOne Oslo main conference at no cost.

For more info please read this document.

Future of Java Workshop Videos

We had the last event of 2008 on 9th of December at Kista campus. Our next event will be in KTH main campus. Please vote through our poll on the right side menu bar to decide the topic of the next presentation. You can find the presentation videos below.

As Sun Campus Ambassadors, we wish you “Merry Christmas” and hope to see you again at our upcoming events in 2009.

Future of Java Workshop Introduction by Gökhan :

Future of Java Workshop Part 1

Future of Java Workshop Part 2

JavaFX

Today is the official launch day of JavaFX 1.0 and we, as Sun Campus ambassadors to KTH, had a short presentation about JavaFX last night at opening ceremony of “Mobile Cup” in Stockholm. Mobile Cup is the world’s largest mobile competition with lots of competitors and big sponsors.  People were talking about Adobe’s Flash and Microsoft’s Silverlight technologies to compare with JavaFX.  It was really nice to got lots of positive feedbacks from competitors and other guests after the event.

The strange thing was that it was nearly midnight (11.pm)and it was actually a night club and people were offered free beers while we were talking about the great features of JavaFX, but still lots of people were really interested in the topic. That was really nice. You can find our presentation slides below:

Java Tutorials Community Portal

Hi KTH people,

We are sure most of you are familiar with the Java Tutorials:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

But some of you may not be aware of some changes Sun made earlier this year.  Prior to JavaOne, Sun expanded the tutorial license.  It is now possible to modify or extend the tutorial’s content without special permission from Sun, so long as it is for non-commercial use.  We hope this will encourage educators to use and adapt the Java Tutorials in their curriculum.

As part of that effort, Sun also launched the Java Tutorials Community Portal on java.net:
https://javatutorials.dev.java.net/

Sun encourage you to use this site to discuss the tutorials and related issues.  It includes a forum:
http://forums.java.net/jive/category.jspa?categoryID=65

And a wiki where you can post examples (either examples that extend tutorial examples or brand new ones):
http://forums.java.net/jive/category.jspa?categoryID=65

We also hope that we can collect information on tutorial translations, projects that involve tutorial usage, and so on. We hope this will serve your needs!