Sun kicks off first annual Worldwide Volunteer Week; largest volunteer effort by Silicon Valley company to benefit global community.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1995--With more than 2,000 employees from 15 countries pledging over 16,000 volunteer hours, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. today launched the largest employee volunteer campaign to date by a Silicon Valley company. Sun Worldwide Volunteer Week 1995, taking place Oct. 29 - Nov. 4, is a week-long campaign dedicated to giving back to the communities around the world where Sun's employees live and work. Employees in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Asia and Australia have planned more than 75 community service projects for the week. During Sun Worldwide Volunteer Week 1995, volunteer teams -- made up of Sun employees, their families and friends -- will be addressing key global issues, including the environment, education, homelessness, hunger and the problems faced by today's youth. Representative projects include: --United Kingdom: Sun employees are supporting the conservation efforts of the Surrey Wildlife Trust The Surrey Wildlife Trust is a wildlife trust covering the county of Surrey, England. Surrey Wildlife Trust is the only organisation in Surrey that cares for all forms of wildlife in the county. Surrey Wildlife Trust's mission is to protect and regenerate Surrey's wildlife. by clearing out vegetation and restoring a butterfly dell so that a colony of rare beetles can prosper. --Japan: Nihon Sun employees will work with Japan's Culture Association to teach Japanese to foreign students and business- people from more than 30 countries. --United States: In the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay , volunteers are wiring Arundel Elementary School Arundel Elementary School is an elementary school located in San Carlos, California. In 1995, Vice President Al Gore visited the school to give a press conference concerning the implementation of an Internet network in the school. in San Carlos, Calif., to create a local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ) and give the school access to the Internet. (For a complete list of Sun's participating subsidiaries, please seethe seethe intr.v. seethed, seeth·ing, seethes 1. To churn and foam as if boiling. 2. a. To be in a state of turmoil or ferment: attached list.) "Through Sun Worldwide Volunteer Week, Sun is empowering its employees to identify and support the community issues that are most important to them," said Ken Alvares, Sun's Vice President of Human Resources. "This is really an employee-driven project, and the response to date has been incredibly enthusiastic. Our employees work hard, play hard -- and volunteer hard." To kick off Sun Worldwide Volunteer Week, the company will hold an inaugural ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 29, at Baylands Estuary Park and Water Pollution Control Plant in Sunnyvale, Calif., where more than 200 volunteers will work to further the city's conservation efforts. Sun employees will work alongside 40 honor students from Milpitas High School Milpitas High School (MHS) is a public four-year comprehensive high school in Milpitas, California, a suburban community adjacent to San Jose. It is one of three high schools in Milpitas. , clearing levies, building birdhouses and benches and creating scale models of cities that will be used as teaching tools in local schools on the subject of conservation and pollution. Sun Technology Key to Event Organization To aid with the logistical challenge that a project of this scope presents, Sun's Corporate Affairs Department, which is spearheading Sun Worldwide Volunteer Week 1995, employed the networking capabilities of the Sun Wide Area Network (SWAN) and SunWeb(TM), Sun's internal version of the World Wide Web. Through an internal home page and Sun's electronic mail network, event organizers have been communicating with 14,000 employees in more than 33 countries to publicize, promote and recruit volunteers. Ongoing Community Involvement Programs Sun Worldwide Volunteer Week 1995 is the latest example of Sun's ongoing commitment to global community involvement. Through the company's Community Action Volunteer Program, which was launched in 1989, Sun volunteers have given 18,300 hours of their spare time last year to hundreds of organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area; Massachusetts' Merrimack Valley; Surrey, England; and Linlithgow, Scotland. Sun was the first major U.S. corporation to expand its employee matching gifts program internationally. With annual revenues of $6 billion, Sun Microsystems, Inc., provides solutions that enable customers to build and maintain open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. environments. Widely recognized as a proponent of open standards, the company is involved in the design, manufacture and sale of products, technologies and services for commercial and technical computing. Sun's SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (TM) workstations, multiprocessing servers, SPARC microprocessors, Solaris operating software and ISO-certified service organization each rank No. 1 in the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) industry. Founded in 1982, Sun is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and employs more than 14,000 people worldwide. -0- Worldwide Volunteer Week 1995 Sites
UNITED STATES:
Atlanta, Georgia
Austin, Texas
Baltimore (Columbia), Maryland
Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Columbus, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
Englewood (Denver), Colorado
El Segundo (Los Angeles), California
Houston, Texas
Menlo Park, California
Milpitas, California
Mountain View, California
Orlando, Florida
Palo Alto, California
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Somerset, New Jersey
Vienna, Virginia
Washington, D.C.
CANADA:
Calgary
Markham (Toronto)
Montreal
Ottawa, Ontario
Vancouver
AUSTRALIA:
Sydney
MEXICO:
Mexico City
HONG KONG:
Wanchai
JAPAN:
Tokyo
TAIWAN:
Taipei
ENGLAND:
Bagshot
Camberley
Cambridge
Farnborough
High Wycombe
FRANCE:
Grenoble
Lyon
Velizy (Paris)
GERMANY:
Grasbunn (Munich)
IRELAND:
Dublin
ITALY:
Milan
THE NETHERLANDS:
Amersfoort
Montfoort
SCOTLAND:
Linlithgow
SWITZERLAND:
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