User:Sz/UniversityActivities

The Idea

"Make senior software professionals from Sun Microsystems available to educational institutes throughout Germany"

The Objectives

• guide, teach and mentor students
  • lectures
  • demos
  • presentations
  • project guidance
  • work shops
  • diploma thesis mentoring

• help university professors to enrich their lectures with feedback of experts from industrial practice of research & development.
  • consult
  • co-lecture
  • training
  • project setup

The Benefits

• Professors
  • can access professionals of a technology leading global company to get information of the experiences, experts made at Sun Microsystems in an environment of globally distributed software development projects in the open source arena.
  • can shape their lectures according to what really happens in the open source world
  • can get help with setting up "real world/real usage" software projects for their students
  • can be informed, coached and trained about bleeding edge technologies in industry
  • may embed presentations from senior experts in their lectures
  • may conduct scientific colloquia for well known professionals in the open source world

• Students
  • can get information from senior experts of the practice
  • can access the experience "rookies" made in the industry when they first came to hit the road
  • can get help with their thesis work
  • can get guidance in their project works
  • can participate at "real" software projects which may serve as reference later when they apply for a job
  • can gain experience in global open source projects working in a distributed software development environment
  • work in projects together with well known, highly experienced professionals from a global technology leading company
  • can gain project management experience in FOSS projects

• Sun Microsystems
  • can inform professors and students about to what extend Sun is driving FOSS
  • can transfer knowledge and information about Sun's open source projects, sponsorship and activities
  • can generate interest for professors and students to participate, collaborate and contribute to open source
  • can evangelize FOSS and promote "choice" over "vendor lock in"
  • can identify high skilled students participating in open source projects for vacant positions@Sun
  • can gain fresh and new perspectives from requirements of students and educational institutes