24 PreSEEDs Matched – Matching Update

The mentor matching cycle for the PreSEED pilot program participants
started on 19 February. 24 have been matched in 16 days (83%). There are
five participants left to match. All are now under consideration by
potential mentors.

The PreSEED pilot participants are among those invited to the SEED
mentoring program’s MidTerm Event on 11 April. 93 Sun attendees are registered
so far for this event. Speakers will include:


    • Jonathan Schwartz
      (Chief Executive Officer and President)

    • David Yen
      (Executive Vice President, Microelectronics)
    • Tiki Dare (Associate General Counsel, Sun Legal) speaking on
      OpenSolaris
    • Chris Frank (Senior Staff Engineer, Industrial Design Architect, & SEED Alumnus, Sun Systems Group) speaking on “Out of the Box: Initial Experiences Create Lasting
      Impressions”

    • Darryl Gove
      (Senior Staff Engineer, SEED Mentor & Alumnus, Sun Software Group)
      speaking about his new book

      Solaris Application Programming

    • Nicole Yankelovich
      (Principal Engineer, & SEED Mentor, Sun Labs)
      speaking on
      “Wonderland:
      Using a 3D Virtual World for Collaboration”

PreSEED is a pilot of the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program.
More information on SEED is available at

http://research.sun.com/SEED/

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