Cloud open standards and open source are the key to achieving interoperability and eliminating vendor lock-in across the industry. IBM builds its cloud offerings on open standards to ensure interoperability and accelerate clients' success with cloud. As a Platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation, IBM actively encourages the adoption of standards in the open source community and is making significant contributions in support of OpenStack's goal of developing a ubiquitous, massively scalable open source cloud platform. To promote awareness and development of skills relevant for this platform in academia,
IBM University Relations program brings to you "Cloud Hackathon" an opportunity to Learn, Compete and win some exciting prizes and opportunity to work with IBMers on interesting Open Cloud projects.
The event opens on 21st January 2014 and we will like to invite engineering colleges to participate and make this event a success. The details of this event can be found at the event website and there will be more information & education coming your way to get participants from your college equipped to compete.
Prizes for Campus ambassadors:
Fast & Furious : IBM Campus ambassador who's college has the maximum registrations
CA on top : IBM Campus ambassadors of the top 5 winning teams
Early Bird CA : IBM Campus ambassador whose college is the first to hit 20 registrations
write to me (mparadka@in.ibm.com) before 7th Feb 2014, if you wish to organize a special webinar / event at your college to brief the students on Open Cloud Technologies and the cloud hackathon
