Remembering the old Sunny Days

Although my tenure with Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corp), working as a Sun Campus Ambassador was numbered (just 6 months), but I consider that to be an important phase in my life, a beginning of a new journey, something that motivated me to work on open-source technology and learn new and exciting stuff.

The bad, rather the ugly part is that I cannot access my Sun Blog anymore !! Yes, I have written to Oracle about it, but nothing has happened so far. Still the sole purpose of writing that post was to re-live moments of the past and  thanks to Arun Gupta, I’m re-posting one of my favourite entries again: A poem for me from one of my favourite professor: Dr. P.K. Hazra.

Under the SUN-MICROSYS SunRay
Has bloomed a Lovely Rose,
Over Joyful in Java & Solaris
He is SUN CAMPUS AMBASSADOR Agraj.
Only one request I want to make
to the SUN's shining flower,
To remain in serene silence
During my lecture hour
                Quoted by Dr. P.K Hazra

and As they say,  “I’m really gonna miss this place, I’m gonna my college days…”

Sankalan 2010 Goes Green….the Copenhagen Way !!

The Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi once again proudly presents to you its annual technical fest: Sankalan 2010: Compiling Innovations towards green future….

The students at the department, understand the importance of global warming and its harmful effects and thus plan to create awareness and spread the word around.

So here we are, with open arms welcoming students all over the country to come and join us in this effort and have fun along the way. Sankalan ( a hindi word meaning Compilation ) has always been a tech-fest of its own kind, with students pouring in from everywhere and making it a success.

You can find out more information like the events (both technical and non-technical) on the fest’s blog. You can check out the official site here for registration and detailed information for the fest. So pack up your bags and get ready for entertainment and fun-packed stuff. Hope to see you there at 20-21st Feburary 2010.

SUN shines @ Sankalan 2008

Now thats a biggie for me :-)

Well. the good news is that Ms. Anuradha Sen (my coordinator from SUN) along with Mr. Ajay Ahuja (Learning Services, SUN Microsystems) would be coming to deliver a talk on "Sun Microsystems: Choice, Innovation & Value". This will introduce the participants to Sun Technologies and offerings in terms of products and trainings.
Its great to have their presence with us.
I, as the campus ambassador for Delhi University, would be responsible for managing everything related to it. And am i not happy? (to say the least, i'm excited, anxious, curious, confused, thrilled)...i hope you can see the mixed feelings. :-)
It would be a pleasure to meet such learned ppl and learn from their experience & knowledge. Really waiting for the big day.

Do not miss this opportunity to meet some learned people from the industry and win lots of prizes/certificates/trophies by winning competitions.

For further details on Sankalan 2008, please visit
http://cs.du.ac.in/sankalan

Sankalan 2008 : Compiling Innovations !!

Hello Friends,

I take pride in introducing to you with our annual technical festival, Sankalan 2008, organized by Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. It goes like:

We, at the Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, welcome you to our annual technical festival Sankalan 2008. Sankalan provides a platform for students pursuing IT courses all over India to come together and test their technical and non-technical skills through various events like

• Technical Quiz
• Web Designing
• C++ Programming
• Debugging Challenge
• Overnight Project Designing
• Algorithms etc.

This promotes the enhancement of knowledge through talks and lectures delivered by eminent speakers.
Apart from technical events, there are some non-tech events also like JAM, Turn Court etc are also there to entertain people.
Teams from premier engineering and technological institutes across the country are expected to participate in the festival. Besides, there will be a sizeable gathering comprising of students from various colleges of DU .

Following are the details:

Sankalan 2008......Compiling Innovations
Date : 2 and 3 February 2008
Venue : Conference Centre, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007
Website : http://cs.du.ac.in/sankalan/
Email- id : sankalan2008@gmail.com
Eligibility : MCA/ Msc Comp Sc/ B.Tech/ M.Tech/ B.Sc(H) Comp Sc/ B.Sc(G) Comp Sc/ BCA

We look forward to your participation and welcome you to the event.
We are also open to suggestions and comments. :)
Hope to see you there.

My "Sun"ny days

Well i have been recently selected as a Campus Ambassador for Delhi University by Sun Microsystems. :-)
Its basically an internship program but more than that, its about being a technology evangelist. It simply means Talking, and that is something i love. Yeah, i love talking about stuff i know (that includes technology talks as well as gossiping)
Sun Microsystems, as you might know, is a leader in the spectrum of Open Source, with most of its products and technologies being open source. They were the first one to quickly perceive the pervasiveness of open source technology in the software life-cycle. More than that, it allows technologies to grow at a never-ending rate with the help of online communities and discussion forums. Kudos to Sun Microsystems for that.
And for those who do not know, Open Source is not limited to software. Yeah, Sun engineers have also open-sourced their chip design. :-)

So, all students from Delhi University, feel free to contact me on agraj.mng@gmail.com and i will try my best to answer your queries asap.
For those who are interested, can join these groups:
Java User Group of Delhi University : http://groups.google.com/group/jug-du
OpenSolaris User Group of Delhi University : http://groups.google.com/group/osug-du
Don't forget to introduce yourself and tell why you want to join the group.

I think thats enough for today.
After all, its just the starting of my "Sun"ny days. Hope the fun continues with this quest of learning and sharing knowledge.