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 of the award money is designated for grants for undergraduate research on OpenSolaris. • The contest portion 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 d