GlassFish Grants and Awards Program - Geo-Based Projects

See also GlassFish Grants And Awards Program

One of the key strengths of Open Source is how they combine local activism with a global alignment and vision and the Grants and Awards program seems a great oppty to encourage locally-based activities. Two basic variations are:

Geo-Based web portals.

The openSolaris community has been doing a very good job with all their portals. See OpenSolaris Portals

User Groups.

This is a variation of the above, except that the User Groups are usually centered around driving distances, while the portals are around some level of language/national idenitty. User Groups can also be hosted within a University

In both cases we could provide some level of funding either for infrastructure or for students / interns / ...

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