The UP ACM Executive Council election was held from March 16-18, 2009. The 7 individuals with the highest number of votes (out of 16 candidates) were declared as the new members of the Executive Council. An internal election among the winners was then held today to determine the specific positions of each Council member. The results are as follows:
Chairperson: Joseph Jesneil Montalbo (53 member votes)
Vice-Chairperson/Membership Head: Ruzette Tanyag (64 votes)
Secretary/Records Head: Manica Dimaiwat (26 votes)
Treasurer/Finance Head: Gian Paolo Samson (63 votes)
Education Head: Rose Ann Sale (48 votes)
Externals Head: Crystal Beatrice Camarao (42 votes)
Logistics Head: Jhoirene Clemente (33 votes)
Voter turnout during Executive Council election: 50.34% or 74 out of 147 voters
Congratulations to the elected Computer Science representatives for the academic year 2009-2010 in the recent Engineering Student Council elections:
Roy Erwin Dela Cruz
Rona Riza Gumia
Jamie Lou Polloso
Joven Sebido
All four of the elected CS representatives are UP ACM members. May you serve the CS community well. Congrats! Woot!
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Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter (UP ACM)
and
PHP Users Group – Philippines (PHPUGPH)
in cooperation with
Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co.
bring you
PHP Roadshow 2009
(UPD leg)
Date: January 31, 2009
Time: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Venue: Lecture Hall, UP Department of Computer Science
Tentative Topics:
-Basic PHP
-Basic MySQL adn Database Modelling
-CakePHP
-Introduction to CMS/Joomla
-Advanced CMS/Drupal
Admission is FREE!
Limited seating is available. Please pre-register now at http://www.upacm.org/blog/php-roadshow-2009/. Pre-registration is open until January 29, 2009 or until all slots are filled up. For more inquiries, please contact Ada (+639276785647) or email adcariaga@gmail.com
UP ACM General Assembly
Date and Time: January 19, 2008 (2 PM)
Venue: Classroom 3, DCS
Agenda:
A. PHP Road Show
B. CS Week 2009
C. iJob OJT Opportunities
D. Zembly Mashup Competition
E. ACM Distinguished Speakers Program (ACM DSP)
F. Edu Blog Awards
G. Java Tech Talk
Please come on time. Your attendance will be important.
There will be an OSUM Pizza Party after the General Assembly.
See you there!
General Assembly for November 2008
Date: November 17, 2008 (Monday)
Time: 09:00 AM
Venue: Classroom 4, UP Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall (also known as the Engineering Library 2 and Department of Computer Science)
Agenda: First Semester report, redistribution of tasks for the second semester, welcome of new members, and a tech demo from Sun Microsystems.
Free food will be served.

Visit http://www.upacm.org/appform to apply online.
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