Sun Microsystems: moneys for ideas
After Google and its Android competition, now it’s time for Sun Microsystems to come up with an interesting initiative to reward worldwide developers: the Netbeans Innovator Grant.
You can submit a project proposal — your ideas of how to improve the NetBeans Project — and a panel of experts will assign to the best proposals a money grant. Once you have a grant approved, you know that you’ll receive the money if you complete the project. You can then work on a module, develop an application on top of the NetBeans Platform, fix bugs on the NetBeans IDE or even work on missing documentation or translations. Whatever you think is needed to increase NetBeans adoption and push the NetBeans Project to its next level. And you’ll get real money — at least US$ 11,500 or 2,000! — to work on your dream open source project!
What’s peculiar of this contest is that you don’t have to submit a working application, but you can propose just an idea: if selected, you’ll get the prize after the completion of the project.
If you don’t like the idea of playing with Netbeans, that’s not the only contest offered by Sun. Have a look also at the GlassFish Awards Program, at the OpenJDK Community Innovators’ Challenge and to this page for many other non-Java related competitions.
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