Sun grants equipment to eligible organizations who have developed creative projects that address our investment priorities and create partnerships for success. Grants are made on a published quarterly calendar and are for hardware donations only. Grants do not include maintenance, service or technical support. Grants must be reviewed and supported by the local Education Sales Representative. Grants are valid for 60 days from the date of the award. The priorities that Sun uses to make investment decisions are reviewed and published annually.
Calendar
For Applications received by:
Notification will be sent by:
November 5th, 2007 (FY08Q2)
December 30th, 2007
February 4th, 2008 (FY08Q3)
March 30th, 2008
May 5th, 2008 (FY08Q4)
June 30th, 2008
Eligibility Guidelines
Higher Education
In the United States, eligible institutions must have:
3304 (f) or a 501 (c) (3) or Section 115 tax exempt status
be a degree granting institution or be involved in basic research
Outside of the United States, institutions must either be degree-granting or involved in basic research and be recognized as a non-commercial enterprise by their national government.
Non-profit institutions with 501 (c) (3) status which are neither degree-granting nor directly involved with basic research may be eligible if they directly support the academic and research communities in their mission to create and disseminate knowledge, and if they can demonstrate financial need.
Primary and Secondary/K-12 Educational Institutions
To be eligible as a primary or secondary educational institution, the following guidelines must be met:
Public or private formal full-time educational institution offering classes in the range or equivalence of grades Primary and Secondary (K12)
Licensed, certified or accredited to operate as a school or school administrative unit in the state or country of operation
Areas of Focus:
Open Solaris
Java Developer
Open SPARC
Deliverables
Description
Curriculum
The integration of Sun Technology in undergraduate and graduate level courses through the development and use of model curricula.
Community Development
The sponsorship of a Sun or Open Source community development projects that align with the academic and research interests of your students, faculty and researchers and result in 'put-backs' to the code.
Localization
The localization of the code or development tools and resources to languages other than English.
Outreach
Promote broad awareness of Sun tecnologies on campus and participation of faculty, students and other members of the academic community in Sun communities through events, workshops and end-user communications.
Software Development
Specific to Java Development - NetBeans IDE plug-ins that result in put backs to the Net Beans community.
Areas of Focus:
Education
Life Science
Healthcare
Government
Deliverables
Description
Applications
Development of an application, technology or solution using the Sun platform which can be deployed in the targeted industry.
Areas of Focus:
Sun Ray
Deliverables
Description
Proof of Concept
Deployment of Sun Ray thin clients; ideally 100 or more seats.
Areas of Focus:
High Performance
Technical Computing
Deliverables
Description
Porting
The porting and/or optimization of key applications, libraries, and tools in the high-performance computing domain to Solaris using the Sun Studio 11 Compilers and Optimized Libraries
Curriculum
The integration of Solaris in undergraduate and graduate level courses through the development and use of model curricula, which focus on high-performance computing
Community Development
The sponsorship of Solaris community development projects, through the OpenSolaris project, that align with the academic and research interests of your students, faculty and researchers and result in 'put-backs' to the OpenSolaris source code.
If you have a program associated question, please contact us.
The Education & Research group at Sun Microsystems, is
very interested in following the progress of your project. We would therefore appreciate receiving Quarterly
Feedback on the progress of your project, as per the guidelines on our Project Progress/Feedback
form.
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