So, this is the only photo I’ve been able to get to prove that I’ve actually been in Zagreb (Croatia):
Well, actually I should recognize I had a great time during the roundtable. I got to ramble around with Marko and Michael (I miss you, guys!), say hello to some others I hadn’t seen in some time (like Eva and Mario) and met a lot of new people (including all these bunch of very crazy guys fro Zagreb Student Branch, which are the kind of people you shouldn’t left alone in a pub with a lot of girls };P). Of course the only problem being that as I was so short on time (doing a bit more travel than normal this month) I had time to: arrive to the airport, hug marko, go clubbing, dance, go sleep 4 hours, wake up, go to roundtable, eat, back to roundtable, go party, sleep 3 hours and go back to the airport,… and that was it! };P
I promise to post more photos when I get them and have some time…
Published on March 16, 2005
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So very soon we will be running this students event in which we’ll get to talk to some IEEE student members(mainly from Eastern Europe branches) to tell them about the new initiatives in IEEE and get their feedback. This is quite important, as I think you should never lose contact with “the real world”. I’ve always said IEEE does a lot of good stuff for students, but the point is that the majority of that actions are completely unknown to most of them… hopefully the R8 Portal project will help a little on bridging the gap
We’ll, I’ve prepared a little presentation for the event I’ve entitled “With love, from SAC to you” (try to sing the title along with some Beatles music in the background). Here I’ll quickly summarize the points I expect to talk about:
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Published on March 16, 2005
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New Orleans is absolutely cool! Bourbon Street is a very funny place to hang around (once you manage to hang around dodging lots of drunk people)
Meetings were fine, party was fine, Marko picked up a girl at Peter O’Toole’s… I mean Pat O’Briens… we had jazz, we had Hurricanes and we had some new stuff going on from SAC, like the idea of organizing a worldwide programming contest (with a different approach from those of the ACM or TopCoder, of course). Temporarily suggested name is IEEEXtreme, but we are looking for new ideas!
Also, a new collaboration group will be started for enhancing SAC/GOLD collaboration and activities. With the inminent appearance of the . Geeky-extraordinaire Miss Lori Hogan, IEEE Region 7 Student Representative, is to be on charge of representing SAC in this new initiative. With such a representation, we can´t do bad };D
Finally, we also had the prizes for the outstanding cousellor award. From Region 8, prize goes to S.S.N. Okeke from Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Nigeria. From here, my e-congratulations! And to all student branches out there, remember that we give these every year, so don´t forget to nominate your counsellors if they are doing great. Help keep them know that their efforts are recognized! You’ve got all the info here
In a few hours I’ll be on a plane heading towards London to meet Marko (my beloved friend, who is IEEE Region 8 Student Activities Chair this year) to have some talking, rumble around London for a while and then go see… We Will Rock You! The musical at Dominion Theater (near Tottenham Court Road)
After that we’re supposed to be heading to a hotel near the airport, nap two hours and catch our plane to New Orleans.
update: boy! you should go see that musical! It was sooo cool! Wonderful music, very good actors, and Scaramouche is so good you’ll almost fall in love with her (well, Marko actually did };P)… and by the way… avoid staying at Sheraton Heathrow hotel at any cost!
Last Friday coming right from the airport after the South Africa experience I attended the last Train The Trainers (TTT) event of this year at Microsoft offices in Pozuelo, Spain. These events aim at …. I think they are a very good idea and I love to see some of my friends in every event (hallo David! hallo Ivan!)
The theme of this last TTT has been .NET 2.0 platform.
Let me comment some of my toughts about this:
This title is a tribute to all the Afrikaans understanding I’ve been able to extract from these 5 days in South Africa… as you can see, not much!
