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If you have Linux skills and you want to freely participate in the Sun Certified Solaris Associate Exam design, Sun invites you to make the beta exam 310-105 from May 23 through June 10, 2008.

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The URV has been a member of the Sun Academic Initiative (SAI) program since 2003. Our faculty and students have access to about 200 Free Web-based courses on Java technology, Solaris OS system administration, Java Enterprise infrastructure products and the complete StarOffice productivity suite. Professional Development Courses are also offered for other topics such as Time Management, Effective Presentation Skills and many others.

More information   Courses available

Remember that with the SAI agreement you can also get certified by Sun for just 52 euros!(When normally cost 129 euros for professionals). Ask here for more information about it.

To celebrate that soon will be 500.000 Professional Certificats in Sun technologies, the first one to pass this numbre on Spain and Portugal will win a beautiful Nintendo Wii.
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If you want to learn to develop Sun SPOTS (Sun Small Programmable Object Technology) applications, now you have available the Sun SPOT Introductory Training Course.
Students completing the online training, will receive a certificate of completion.

Do it and provide feedback. For example, is the course too difficult or easy? Was the homework useful, etc?

In order to promote URV communities and to spread out the Sun Know-How between profesors and students from our University, Sun invites to profesors and URV Java / OpenSolaris members who want to the intern sessions about SW & HW that will take place at Sun offices.

If you are interested on assist, send me a message telling me to what session and in which office so that you can get the neccesary authorization.

Take advantage of this opportunity :-) !!

The OpenSolarisHispano Community have developed an spanish Student OpenSolaris Guide Community Edition (CE). Here you have the contents:

Indiana installation Start and shutdown (smf) Disk management Process management User management Virtualization BrandZ xVM Storage ZFS Kernel /proc DTrace

The OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards are intended to recognize and reward new, enabling, innovative, and high-performance uses of OpenSolaris technology, or substantial contributions to the OpenSolaris community.

Prizes:

• 1 Grand Prize: $30,000
• 3 First Prizes: $15,000 each
• 25 Second Prizes: $1,000 each

NOTE: All prizes are in U.S. dollars.

Deadlines:

• Contest entries must be submitted by June 14, 2008.
• Winners will be announced and prizes will be awarded in August 2008.

For more information:

1. FAQ – including How to register
2. Official Rules
3. Project Ideas
4. Contest Entries

Good Luck!! ;-)

Now that NetBeans IDE 6.1. Beta is available to download with some new great features tell us what you think about it!

Sun is giving away *$500 for 10 winners* and *T-Shirts for 100 winners* with the best blogs. This is a GREAT opportunity for developers --including students-- to learn about NetBeans IDE and have some fun.
Noteworthy blogs will be linked from NetBeans.org :-)

Awards:

• 10 chances to win a $500 American Express Gift Certificate!
• 100 chances to win a cool NetBeans T-Shirt!
• The 10 schools with the highest number of blogs will each receive 50 vouchers for credit towards Java certification (to be distributed by the ambassadors either to students who blogged and/or via Tech Talks).

Deadlines:

• Contest starts: March 14, 2008.
• Contest deadline: April 18, 2008.
• Judging period: April 19 - May 12, 2008.
• Winners announced: May 12, 2008.

Process:

1. Download the NetBeans IDE 6.1 Beta (or later release) and try it out.
2. Blog about it!
3. Submit the URL to your blog.
   (IMPORTANT: you have to indicate the school name you attend when submitting your blog to the contest.)
4. Do it before April 18, 2008!

Good luck!! :-)

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Sun supports/encourages academic use of OpenSPARC

• OpenSPARC Course Material
• Collaborate and share course material related to OpenSPARC, chip multi-threading, multi-core in many areas including hardware design, design tools, CMT Architecture, software systems design, operating systems, concurrent computing and other related areas
• Centers of Excellence (CoE) OpenSPARC
• Technology access, greater equipment discounts, equipment grants, publicity and prestige that aids in obtaining other grants, other support.

University Participation OpenSPARC

• Community Registration
• After registration and confirming password, you can join the mailing lists
• Forums
• Add your university (or company) to the marketplace
• Send them your profile and they will post it
• Add yourself to our Frappr!!
• Contribute to our OpenSPARC Book

http://OpenSPARC.net

The Sun Academic Initiative is a program designed to create a collaborative relationship between Sun and academic institutions, in this case the University Rovira i Virgili. Courses delivered through this program (completely free of charge) will introduce students to Sun Microsystems technologies, prepare them for industry-leading certification, and equip them with marketable IT job skills.

Just registering with Sun Learning Connection filling in your personal information with:

• Company Name: SAI-Universitat Rovira i Virgili
• Company ID: the one you will find after login on the URV intranet -> INFORMACIÓ D'INTERÉS -> Acords informàtics corporatius -> Sun Acadèmic Initiative -> Guia operativa

you will be able to access this information courses per 0 € and improve your knowledge and your Currículum Vitae. This agreement let you to become certified in Sun technologies saving a 60% of its original price.

If you want to do the certified exam ask for the discount after being logged from REFERENCE -> SAI Member Offers -> View | Certification test vouchers.

Available Courses: [.pdf]

More information Get inside the URV Intranet -> INFORMACIÓ D'INTERÉS -> Acords informàtics corporatius ->Sun Acadèmic Initiative
General information about SAI and UPDATED COURSES AVAILABLE LIST

If you have any doubt, please contact with sun.ambassador@urv.cat

We want to start two user groups in our campus:

• a Java user group on Java.net: urvjavagroup
• and an OpenSolaris user group

The goal of those groups is to create a distribution list to learn, help each other and improve in the desenvolupament of those technologies.

To organize sessions about relatic topics and inform you.

Inform the users about job offers related with Sun.

Promote the work we do at the URV with Java and Solaris , ...

If you want to be part of them, please contact with sun.ambassador@urv.cat indicating in which group you are interested.

We would like it to know research projects, pfc, works... that are being developed in the URV with Sun technology. Please if you work in one of them, send us a mail to sun.ambassador@urv.cat indicating title, description and web address and we will be delighted to link you ;-)

Research Projects:

POPEYE: Collaborative systems over mobile ad-hoc networks.

Next Thursday, February 21 at 10:30 it will take place a techniccal conference about OpenSolaris and OpenSPARC at the E.T.S.E. conference hall, developed in the context of "Sun OpenSource Technologies Tour" and planned in collaboration with Sun Microsystems.

Although these sessions are addressed to professors, lecturers, phd students, research grant holders and last courses students, any member of our university community interested on the topics can assist.

More information.

Slides: OpenSolaris  |   OpenSPARC  |   Sun OpenSource Technologies Tour    

The exam Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 it is now available.

You can find more information at:
• Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (CX-310-065)
• Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 Upgrade Exam (CX-310-066)

NetBeans 6.0 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) extends support beyond Java by providing a rich set of features for C/C++, JavaScript and the Ruby language, including Ruby on Rails -- further enhancing developer productivity with multiple languages and ease of use.

More information:
• NetBeans IDE 6.0
• Instrucctions for the installation
• Tutorials and Documentation
• Main Features
• Download
• NetBeans Magazine