New Mentoring Term Announced – for SEED Established Staff

Two days ago, executive sponsor

Greg Papadopoulos (Sun’s Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice
President of Research and Development) announced the opening of the application
period for the new SEED
worldwide Engineering mentoring term for Established Staff. The application
forms will be open through 23 February 2009.

There have already been 12 applications submitted (from Australia, China,
Czech Republic, Ireland, New Zealand, and the USA). Tanya Jankot and I will
offer two phone-in presentation and question sessions:

• Call 1: February 13, 8 a.m. or 08:00 (USA West Coast, Pacific Standard Time, PST)
• Call 2: February 19, 8 p.m. or 20:00 (USA West Coast, Pacific Standard Time, PST)

SEED’s General Selection Criteria:

1. All Participants are in Engineering.
2. Only regular Sun employees may participate.
3. Superior annual performance ratings are preferred.
4. Manager support is required.

SEED runs seven terms a year. After this Established Staff, the next terms
will be for PreSEED and GSS SEED. Applications for PreSEED and GSS SEED
will be accepted starting in early April; the term will run June-December 2009.