There will be a General Assembly on August 12, 2008.

Matters that will be discussed include, but may not be limited to: Y4iT Volunteering, T-shirt Design Contest Winner, and official announcement of committee assignments. There will also be a photoshoot for the Membership ID; no ID picture, no Membership ID.

This is a very important General Assembly to attend, so attendance is a MUST.

To all members and members-to-be,

APPLICATION AND RENEWAL IS EXTENDED TO JULY 1, 2008, because many of you have no classes on Mondays.

Wondering where to submit your requirements for renewal? You may submit them to Ate Mila, 3rd floor of the UPAE Centennial Hall (Department of Computer Science). SUBMIT YOUR FORMS AND REQUIREMENTS TOGETHER, and STAPLE THEM.

Thank you, and we hope to see you aboard!

Application and Renewal Period for UP ACM is now officially open!

Application forms are available in both online and offline formats. Offline (paper-based) forms are only available on UP ACM events during the application process.

TO GIVE WAY FOR OUR UNIVERSITY RECOGNITION, THE DEADLINE OF APPLICATION AND RENEWAL IS ON JUNE 30, 2008. No late applications will be entertained.

Requirements:

1. Three certified photocopies of UP Form 5 and ID (on the same page).
2. Four 1″x1″ ID Pictures
3. P100 annual chapter membership fee (P90 for freshmen applying for this semester only)

ACM International Membership

JOIN ACM INTERNATIONAL, the world’s oldest and largest computing society!

To join, accomplish the application form, and pay an additional US $18 for 1 year ACM International Student Membership fee.

For inquiries contact:
Joseph Jesneil P. Montalbo
Vice-chairperson, Association for Computing Machinery UP Student Chapter
membership [{at}] upacm [{dot}] net

We will have a general assembly tomorrow at the UPAE Centennial Hall Classroom 1. Be there at 5:30 PM.

Agenda:

• New set of Officers
• Report – last year’s activities
• Giving of Last Year’s Awards
• Tag You’re IT 2!
• Pointing System
• Activities for the year (overview)
• Upcoming Events (June-July)
• ACM International Membership
• External Committee Head Application
• UP ACM Finance Program

See you there!

We are currently creating the UP ACM alumni directory and we’d like you, our alumni, to provide the following information***:

• *Full Name
• *College (when you graduated from UPD)
• *Degree Program (when you graduated from UPD)
• *Year of graduation
• *Email Address
• *Contact number/s (landline and/or mobile)
• *Present Address
• Permanent Address
• *Employer Name (if employed)
• *Employer’s address (if employed)
• School Name (if student taking up another degree in another school)
• School’s address (if student taking up another degree in another school)
• Degree Program on new school (if student…)
• For UPAE Grand Alumni Homecoming: If you are a member of other Engineering-based organizations, please indicate what those organizations are, and choose only one org (either UP ACM or another org) you will be ‘affiliated’ in. This ‘affiliation’ is needed in order to prevent multiple invitations being sent to you.

Those marked with * are required information. Employer info is required only if employed.

Kindly forward this to other UP ACM alumni you know. Send your reply to directory [at] upacm [dot] net under the subject Alumni Directory.

Thank you very much!

*** Contact information from College of Engineering alumni will be submitted to the College. We need to submit this information for purposes of the UPAE Grand Alumni Homecoming. The deadline for Eng’g alumni information is June 6, 2008.

A new version of the UP ACM Web site was deployed Sunday, May 11th 2008, after undergoing a test run for almost three weeks.

The redesign was part of a plan to integrate the old Web site and the official Web log, which often contained the same content.

New to the Web site are (a) an event management system, (b) a public chat room, and (c) an online application form.

51 out of 135 UP ACM members, or 37.78% voted in the 2008 elections.

The results are as follows:

1. Ada Angeli Cariaga - 41 votes ( 80.39% )
2. Lalaine Chen - 37 votes ( 72.55% )
3. J. Allen Santos - 37 votes ( 72.55% )
4. Joseph Jesneil Montalbo - 36 votes ( 70.59% )
5. Apple Pinca - 34 votes ( 66.67% )
6. Ruzette Tanyag - 32 votes ( 62.75% )

Congratulations!

To: All I.T. Professionals, Teachers, Students, Government Employees & I.T. Enthusiasts
From: Y4iT Organizers

It is with great pleasure to inform you that the UP Information Technology Training Center (UP ITTC), University of the Philippines (UP), UP System IT Foundation (UP SITF), and Student Volunteer Corps (SVC) will once again hold the largest gathering of IT enthusiasts from all over the country, the:

Join and be a part of the most anticipated IT event of the year!!!

Source:
http://y4it.up.edu.ph
http://ittc.up.edu.ph

Y4iT: Youth for IT 2007

Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology

The Biggest IT Event of the Year! 15,000 attendees expected! Join and be a part of the most anticipated IT event of the year!

Topics:
Digital Entertainment
Machine Intelligence
Digital Libraries
Challenges in Automation
Information Security
Digital Video Production
Human Interfaces and Interaction
e-Government
e-Market Place
Network Business
ASP and e-Business
Job Structures in IT
Enterprise Resource Planning
Computational Biology
Mobile Learning
Success Stories in Animation
Technology Entrepreneurship
Best Practices in the e-Services Industry
Latest Trends in Hardware Technology
Emerging Technologies
3D Animation
Biomedical Robotics
On-Line Gaming / MMORPG

Let’s celebrate for UP ACM is now a four-time Chapter Excellence winner for 3 consecutive years! This time, we were able to get the Outstanding Chapter Activities award! Congratulations to UPACM!

Here’s the email received from ACM HQ:

Dear James,

I am pleased to inform you that the University of Philippines Student chapter has been chosen as a co-winner of the Outstanding Chapter Activities award. Congratulations!

The $500 check will be sent to the address you provided in your submission. Please let us know if we should send it somewhere else.

I noted above that you are a co-winner: we recognized two chapters in this category– the other winner is the University of Minho (Portugal).

Again, congratulations on your outstanding chapter program for the year. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Warm Regards,

Lauren Ryan
ACM Local Activities

Go UPACM!