It seems the amount is already official. It is $1M to be split among
the communities - although, in a new-math turn, I believe the division
somehow equals $175K.
See:
http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/awards/
Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart wrote:
> Sun has announced a multi-year Community Awards program intended to
> encourage and reward participation in open source communities. This
> first year the program covers six Sun-led communities: OpenSPARC,
> OpenOffice.org, NetBeans, OpenJDK, OpenSolaris and GlassFish.
>
> Money and basic legal framework is provided by Sun but each community
> will design its own rules (within some legal guidelines, etc). We need
> to have all the details for the program by Jan 14th; I am planning to
> lead the discussion for the program through the
> advocacy_at_glassfish.dev.java.net mailing list, starting next week.
>
> I believe some more details will be announced by Simon in Bangalore at
> FOSS.IN
>
> A brief blurb is at [1]. I'll send more pointers after Simon's
> announcement.
>
> [1]http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_community_and_sun_s
>
> - eduard/o
>