1 year? Try to nail it in 2 months. Try to learn JSP/Servlets, Spring, Hibernate or Play! framework. Showcase something on GAE. Usually money chases talent, so give ur best at building skills.
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This guy has given an excellent post on contributing to open source: http://shal.in/post/285909694/why-you-should-contribute-to-o...
P.S. Avoid being the 'polite Indian' described by jgrahamc by asking ppl to do ur work ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1886310 )
P.P.S: if you wish to get recruited for Infy, Cogni, Wipro you've come to the wrong forum