Sun-NUS Open Source Day – Sign Up Now!

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Venue:
Seminar Room 1 (SR1, COM1-02-06),
National University of Singapore
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Date: 28 March 2008, Friday

Time: 12.00pm – 6:00pm

Today, Open Source has become the buzzword of IT industry synonymous with innovation, growth and participation. Relevant technical and business skills in Open Source coupled with creativity and passion are essential ingredients to succeeding in the web 2.0 era.

Advance your development skills at the Open Source Day jointly organized by Sun Microsystems and NUS School of Computing. This inaugural event explores the innovations of Open Technologies from Sun, the largest contributor of Open Source Technologies, and focuses on hot technical topics including OpenSolaris, OpenJava and more.

Don’t miss the chance to learn from Sun experts and leading industry speakers on the latest technologies and business models that are driving the web 2.0 era. Open source is about participation. Register today!

Agenda
12:00pm onwards	Registration
1:00pm – 2:00pm	Opening by SOC & Sun Prof Ooi Beng Chin, Dean, School of Computing , NUS Matt Thompson, Senior Director, Developer Outreach, Sun Microsystems
2:00pm – 2:30pm	Java-Open Source Journey and road ahead
2:30pm – 3:00pm	JavaFX – Demos and highlights
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Open Solaris – a model for Open Source community
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Open source IDE for Desktop/Mobile and Enterprise applications(Netbeans 6.0)
4:00pm – 4:15pm	Tea Break
Breakout Track 1: Venue: Venue: Seminar Room 2 (SR2, COM1-02-04)
4:15pm – 5:00pm	Learning & Growing the Open Source way
5:00pm – 5:45pm	Building Web 2.0 applications and best practises
Breakout Track 2: Venue: Seminar Room 3B (SR3B, COM1-02-13)
4:15pm – 5:00pm	OpenSPARC: the first open-sourced multi-core multi-threaded processor
5:00pm – 5:45pm	Open Source Operating Systems – a closer look with Open Solaris
*Agenda subject to change