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!

weDesign Guidelines:

1. Eligibility. All interested participant must: (a) be a High School Student residing in the Philippines; (b) be currently enrolled in any high schools within the Philippines; (c) be familiar with any of the following technologies: (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript.
2. Team. Each team may consist of at most two (2) participants. A school may form at most two (2) teams.
3. Participant. Each participant cannot be a member of another team.
4. Registration. All interested schools may submit a Pre-registration form online or submit the attached Pre-Registration form via Fax. Online Pre-Registration form can be found on http://weDesign.upacm.org/
5. Contest Proper PREPARATION. Prepare the necessary image files needed for the web design creation. Use of copyrighted material is discouraged, unless the contestant has proper authorization from the copyright holder. Please show proof on the day of the event.
6. Contest Proper Mechanics.
   1. Teams are allowed to use any of the following software in the creation process:
      1. GEdit, Notepad any text editor
      2. GIMP
   2. Teams are limited to the following technologies:
   1. (X)HTML
   2. CSS
   3. Javascript
   4. JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
   3. The contest will run for three (3) hours only.
7. Judging. The web designs submitted are judged with the following criteria: (1) Ease of Navigation; (2) Creativity and User Appeal; (3) Usability; (4) Theme Adherence. Websites will be judged using Mozilla Firefox 3 on Ubuntu.
8. Substitution of Participants. The names of the participants and substitutes must be submitted three days prior to the event.
9. Winners. Winners are chosen by the contest’s judges and/or event’s sponsors. The names and schools of the winners will be announced after the judging period.
10. Timeline of Events.
    February 05, 2009: Start of Registration Period
    February 16, 2009: End of Registration Period
    February 20, 2009: Event Proper:
    8:00 am – 8:30 am : Registration
    8:30 am – 11:30 am: Contest Proper
    1:00 pm : Awarding
11. Theme. The theme for the event is: “Education in the 21st Century – What schools are doing with technology.“
12. Other Concerns. If there are concerns with the guidelines, please send your inquiries to ruzette@upacm.net

Register now at http://www.upacm.org/blog/acm-dsp-lectures/.

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!

Pre-register now by filling out this online registration form!

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.

(Applicable to Students, Faculty and Staff from Philippine Universities)

Join the conversation with other students worldwide through Sun’s Open-Source University Meet-Up
(OSUM). OSUM (pronounced ‘awesome’) is a global community of students that are passionate about
Free and Open Source Software and how it is Changing (Y)our World. We call it a ‘Meet-up to encourage
collaboration between student groups to create an even stronger open source community.

Through its on-campus activities, Sun sponsored OSUMs will receive access to technical information that can be shared with OSUM members via technical demonstrations. Additionally, online web courses,through the Sun Academic Initiative program will be available to the OSUM to provide an opportunity to get its members Sun Certified.

Benefits

* Hands-on training via Tech Demos and Student Projects on Open Source Technologies
* Free and low-cost student resources, such as the Sun Academic Initiative featuring free training and discounted certification
* Resources to help host OSUM events
* Sun sponsorship of OSUM meetings, including giveaways and food and beverage support
* Access to the Sun OSUM online community, which provides a feature-rich social networking site for student-developer OSUMs

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Join this global social networking community and connect to thousands of students from around the world.
1. Get started by selecting your language and registering.

Registering is easy – simply visit http://osum.sun.com and click through the few questions. Then you’re there.

2. Join the OSUM Community in the Philippines to avail the benefits here –> http://osum.sun.com/group/osumphilippines