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OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Program

Whether you're a veteran community member or new to OpenSolaris, WELCOME!

Getting Started

What are the OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards?

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. This program is part of a broader Community Innovation Awards Program whose goals are to "foster innovation and recognize the most interesting initiatives within open source communities worldwide." Sun is the primary sponsor of this program and intends to contribute over $1 million across six open source communities.

We hope these awards will encourage more people to participate in the OpenSolaris community. Join a community, a project, a forum or other discussion. Use OpenSolaris. Study OpenSolaris.

To that end:

• A large chunk, $75,000, of the award money is designated for grants for undergraduate research on OpenSolaris.
• The contest portion, $100,000, of the award money is open to a broad range of entries. You can enter code that will eventually be putback into OpenSolaris (such as a device driver), or you can write a program that runs on top of the OS (such as a tool or game), or your entry can be something that is not code at all. You could enter materials for an operating systems course based on OpenSolaris (lecture notes, student guide, labs). Project Ideas lists some ideas for entries. These are just suggestions to get you started thinking about what you want to do. Contest Entries lists the entries that users have already registered for this contest.

What are the Prizes?

29 prizes are available:

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

All prizes are in U.S. dollars. Entries will be reviewed by an expert panel of judges.

Dates

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

For more information, please visit the following links:

• FAQ – including How to Register
• Official Rules
• Project Ideas
• Contest Entries

Check this page frequently for updates and announcements.

Thanks, and good luck!