Dreams of Reality - NetBeans Innovator's Grant Contest

[Bruno F. Souza-2]

NetBeans Community member:

Do you have a dream project idea? Do you know something that is needed
in NetBeans-land?  You could be awarded a grant of $11,500 to work on
your open source project!

Sun Microsystems is sponsoring the "Dreams of Reality – NetBeans
Innovator's Grant" contest, and will pay grant money to teams or
individuals with great ideas on how to improve or expand the NetBeans
Project.  For full details see the grant page on the NetBeans site :

   http://www.netbeans.org/grant/

There are 10 grants for large projects (US $11,500) and 10 grants for
small projects (US $2,000).  There is also extra grant money for the
best implementations, extending the grant to more then US $20,000.  All
you have to do now is submit your idea and your implementation plan.

Your project can be a module, an application on top of the NetBeans
platform, or even non-code related ideas (like books or translations).
It is your project!  The NetBeans Dream Team and the NetBeans Engineers
and Evangelists even suggested a set of cool ideas, take a look and see
if there is something you are interested in :

   http://wiki.netbeans.org/GrantProjectIdeas

The competition dates are as follow:

- Submissions open -> February 1, 2008
- Submissions deadline -> March 3, 2008
- Judges announce the winning projects -> April 1, 2008
- Grant money paid to finished projects -> August 4, 2008
- Judges announce extra grant money -> September 1, 2008

The NetBeans Innovators Grant is part of a larger effort of Sun
Microsystems to offer US $1 million to open source developers. If you
prefer, you can propose ideas of other Java-related projects to OpenJDK
and Glassfish or even propose projects in the OpenOffice, OpenSolaris
and OpenSPARC communities.  More info about the awards :

   http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/awards/index.jsp

We look forward to your submissions!

Bruno Souza and the NetBeans Dream Team




Bruno.
______________________________________________________________________
Bruno Peres Ferreira de Souza                         Brazil's JavaMan
http://www.javaman.com.br                       bruno.souza at sun.com
         if I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe

[holod]

It is written that on the 1 of April chosen project will be announced, but now is the 3 of April and there are no announcements.
I've wrote the letter to [e-mail].
I asked to explain the situation.

Please, if it's possible, give any comments:
1. Is it possible to know was my project chosen or not?
2. When we can  see list of selected projects? It was written that judges are going to announce them on the 1 of April. It is very interesting to watch development process of the most interesting projects.
3. Is it possible to know why my project hasn't been chosen? Me and my team  are students, so it is very important for us to see where we made mistakes and correct them in the future.
We are not going to complain or argue, we just want to get experience based on unsuccessful project proposal.

Seems like project proposals were sent to judges and there is no response.
I would like to have minimal feedback.

Thank you for you attention.
And thank you for giving such great opportunity to participate in interesting competitions.

Sheypak Sergey, "AnimateNB"


If it's possible, please, explain

Bruno F. Souza-2 wrote:

- Submissions open -> February 1, 2008
- Submissions deadline -> March 3, 2008
- Judges announce the winning projects -> April 1, 2008
- Grant money paid to finished projects -> August 4, 2008
- Judges announce extra grant money -> September 1, 2008

Bruno.
______________________________________________________________________
Bruno Peres Ferreira de Souza                         Brazil's JavaMan
http://www.javaman.com.br                       bruno.souza at sun.com
         if I fail, if I succeed, at least I live as I believe

[holod]

NetBeans Innovators Grants

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Update

Due to the high number of submissions, the judges need a little more time to review projects. Winners will be announced the week of 7-11 April. Thank you for your patience!


There is an update. That's great.