Quoted from Eventbrite - Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008:

The Ubuntu Philippines Local Community Team (Ubuntu-PH), in cooperation with the University of the Philippines Department of Computer Science and Engineering, invite you to a day of sharing experiences, learning, and meeting fellow enthusiasts involved in the hottest GNU/Linux distribution that hit mainstream computing - Ubuntu!

Ubuntu Love Day Manila 2008 is a grassroots effort to spread the spirit of Ubuntu. On August 23, 2008, learn and interact with fellow Ubuntu enthusiasts on how you use Ubuntu in your everyday computing needs. We invited 6 resource persons to share their experiences with Ubuntu in different areas of interest:

1. The Ubuntu 30 day challenge - Aileen Apolo (Google)
2. Ubuntu on virtualization and integrating to a Windows Network - Wallen Tan
3. Ubuntu: Saving lives (and then some) - Charo Nuguid
4. Choice is Good! Welcome to the Exciting, Productive and Wacky World of Ubuntu Derivatives - members of UP Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG)
5. Ubuntu and the OLPC XO-1 - Rowen Remis Iral (OLPCPH)
6. Kubuntu & KDE: Contributing to an International Software Project - Juan Carlos Torres (KDE Project)

And the best part? Admission is FREE! But due to space restrictions, we are limiting this event to 50 participants. Please make sure to reserve a ticket and follow the instructions given to you upon reservation If you have reserved a ticket and for some unforeseen event you are not able to attend, please let us know so we can free up the ticket and give a chance to others who would like to attend.

Limit 2 tickets per participant, first come, first served. Tickets have no cash value as this is a free event. If someone tries to sell you one, let us know.

Attend the Computing Society of the Philippines’ Kapihan on Technical Aspects of Election Computerization on May 13, 3-5pm, UP Dept of Comp Science. Admission is free and open to the public.

Speakers:

• Dr. Pablo Manalastas (Digital Signatures); and
• Ito Gruet (Open Election Systems).

UP ACM members may register at the EventBrite registration page so we could get an expected head count of UP ACM attendees. The event password has been published at our mailing list.

Invite your friends, too!

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

The World Usability Day 2007 Manila was held last November 8 at the UP ITTC. It was a usability talk on Web 2.0 that was delivered by Regnard Raquedan of the Adobe User Group (AUG). The participants were the students from the UP ITTC and UP ACM. At the end of the talk was an open forum where there was a raffle of books on Flash and web development solutions and some freebies.

   

In case you missed the event, here’s a copy of the presentation by Mr. Regnard Raquedan:

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Yesterday, we went to La Salle Canlubang ( Laguna ) for the First Philippine National Inter-Collegiate Programming Competition (Philippine ICPC 2007) in the country. It was organized by the Computing Society of the Philippines ( CSP ) and hosted by the said school. This competition is an ACM International sanctioned event for the ACM ICPC held every year. For the past 5 years, a Regional ACM ICPC is held here in Manila, but for this year it is hosted by the National University of Singapore. Unlike the previous years when joining ICPC will only cost teams the registration fees, this time aspiring World Finalists will also need plane tickets to Singapore. The 1st place of yesterday’s competition is assured a spot in the Asia Regional Finals in Singapore c/o CSP.

Fifty teams from all over the country went to La Salle Canlubang to get a chance to get a free ride to Singapore. But the team that took home the golden chalise was the UP Fighting Morons (their team name) consisting of Marte Raphael Soliza ( I call him Lord Marte )- 4th year, Ralph Rainier Pineda - 1st year and Reginald Eli Deinla - 3rd year answering 5 out of the 6 problems! Ateneo got the second place, UP Los Banos got the 3rd, La Salle Taft was the 4th and my team with James Wyson and Ralph Justin Arce got the 5th place. All of these teams solved 3 problems each. I don’t know the rest but another group from UP Diliman entered the Top Ten, that’s the team of Wigi Vei Oliveros, John Kristofferson Sanchez and Pio Ryan Lumongsod.

Continue reading at Amidst This Mediocracy.

This year’s Y4iT was held at the SM North Edsa in Cinemas 9-12. As usual, it was the biggest IT event of the year again with an estimated 15,000 attendees. In cooperation with the UP ITTC, UP student organizations and other schools, UP ACM provided over 50+ members that volunteered as ushers, exhibitors, kits & IDs staff, and program technical staff. Teamwork at its best!

More…

Makigalaw, Makisayaw, Makinig at Mahumaling sa SALIW ng KONTEMPORARYONG GAMELAN PILIPINO! (Opisyal na Pangkat Etniko sa Musika at Sayaw ng Kolehiyo ng Arte at Literatura) at ihiyaw sa buong mundo “Kontragapi”!

Inihahandog ng

UP Association for Computing Machinery at Y4iT

ang

Kontra-gapi

Up Close and Personal

ika-13 ng Setyembre 2007, 6pm
sa Cinema 12, SM North EDSA
Tikets: Php60

Ready to fall in love? Watch and listen to the voices of the UP Manila Chorale as they serenade you with love songs throughout the years…

UP Association for Computing Machinery and Y4iT

present

UP Manila Chorale

Up Close and Personal

Featuring Songs:

Can’t Help Falling In Love
Wind beneath My Wings
Bridge Over Troubled Water
The Prayer and many more…

September 12, 2007, 6pm
SM North, Cinema 9
Tickets at Php60

On September 15, 2007, the whole world shall celebrate the third annual Software Freedom Day (SFD). SFD is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

Local teams from around the world are organizing events for that special day. For the local SFD celebration in the NCR, Philippines; the UP Linux Users’ Group (UnPLUG), Computer Professionals’ Union (CPU) and the Association for Computing Machinery – UP Student Chapter (UP ACM) have decided to collaborate.

Venue: UP College of Engineering Library II and Computer Science Building
Other Venue: Regional celebrations with live videocasts.

See you there!

The Philippine Emerging Startups Open (PESO) Challenge 2007 is a business plan competition among technology ventures that fosters innovation and marketing skills of its participants. Not only cash prizes awaits its winners but a chance to be a part of a network of industry professionals.

In relation to this, PESO Inc., in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery University of the Philippines Student Chapter (UP ACM) would like to invite your department/organization to a talk on the PESO Challenge 2007 to be held at Classroom 1 of the the College of Engineering Library II and Computer Science Building on the 11th of September, 10:00 A.M.

To know more about the PESO Challenge, you can visit the contest website at http://www.pesochallenge.org/. Please confirm your attendance by sending your representatives’ name to Vanie Castro: vaniecastro[AT]acm[DOT]org

Thank you very much and see you there!