Participation Details For Sun Sponsored $1Million Innovation Awards Program
We looked into this a few weeks ago and the specifics hadn’t been posted… they are now.
Directly from Sun’s site;
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), and the GlassFish, NetBeans, OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org, OpenSolaris and OpenSPARC communities announced details on how developers and community members can participate in the individual Open Source Community Innovation Awards programs. Each community, as outlined below, will have its own program rules and judging criteria.
In any Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, collaboration and creativity are central to its success in engaging developers and fostering innovation. The six participating communities have been involved from the beginning in the design of their programs and will also be involved in their administration. Even as the program gets underway, developers are already thinking through potential entries.
“Sun hopes that the opportunity for individual developers to be recognized for their contributions will also drive a wave of excitement and collaborative energy, which will help to power these communities toward greater innovation, participation and growth,” said Simon Phipps, chief open source officer, Sun Microsystems.
The six communities have been asked by Sun to direct $175,000 (USD) of cash awards for their program. The only restriction is that Sun employees are not eligible to participate. Sun is paying all administrative costs of the program. Prize winners will be announced in August 2008 and payments made by the end of September 2008. Pointers for all of these programs can be found here.
