What is the OpenJDK Community Innovators Challenge (the “OCIC”)?
It is an award program designed to encourage developers to contribute new ideas, drive new projects, and collaborate to further the goals of the OpenJDK Community and of open source Java: to foster more adoption, accelerate innovation, and create new opportunities for the OpenJDK code base and for Java SE. The OpenJDK Community Innovators’ Challenge is part of Sun’s Community Innovation Awards program, a multi-year initiative to help build community and to recognize and reward the efforts of developers innovating on Sun’s open source project code bases. This initiative is starting in 2008 with a $1 million award program of which the OpenJDK Community Innovators’ Challenge is a part.