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!

UP ACM, UP CURSOR and UnPLUG invite you to attend K.I.S.S.S 2008 - Knowledge, Information, and Skills Sharing Sessions on June 21 and June 28 at the UP Alumni Engineers Centennial Hall (commonly known as UP Eng’g Lib 2 and Computer Science Department).

Schedule

June 21

9-12 pm - GIMP
1-4 pm - Macromedia Flash

June 28

9-12pm - PHP with MySQL
1-4pm - HTML/CSS

This is a FREE tutorial.

Registration starts at 8:30 am and 12:30 pm
You can register at kisss.upacm. org

See You There!

For Inquiries, kindly text or email
Ruzette Tanyag
(rptanyag@gmail. com - 09164096081)

Mechanics

1. The contest is open to all members of UP ACM for AY 2008-2009 and UP ACM alumni. Alumni must provide the year of their graduation from UP Diliman.
2. The UP ACM logo must be on the T-shirt and must be positioned where it is easily recognized by the eye (e.g., at the back, at the front-upper-right, at the middle).
3. The participant may choose not to follow the organization’s colors (maroon and cerulean) in his/her design.
4. The participant must provide designs for the front side of the shirt. Designs for the back and sleeve areas may be included as well.
5. Winning participant will receive the official T-shirt absolutely free of charge and a P500 cash prize.

Criteria for judging

• Visual impact of the design…………………………………….. 40%
• Member voting……………………………………………………… 60%
• TOTAL……………………………………………………………… 100%

DEADLINE OF T-SHIRT DESIGNS IS ON
JULY 31, 2008
Submit your designs to membership [{at}] upacm [{dot}] net

* The Finance Committee will be hosting a different T-shirt design contest after this one.

Last year, as part of UP ACM’s recruitment program, a ‘referral contest’ was held called Tag! You’re It!. It was a strengthening of our recruitment program and a great chance for members to invite their friends to join the chapter.

Continuing this year, we will have Tag! You’re It! 2, which is a carry-over of last year’s referral contest.

Rules are the same as before, but I will reiterate them here:
Mechanics:

1. Tag! You’re It! is a recruitment drive of the UP ACM which is open to both members and non-members of the student chapter but excluding its council and alumni.
2. Any UP student may be recruited since UP ACM is a university-wide organization.
3. An award will be given to the recruiter in the following categories:
   • referred the highest number of CS students
   • referred the highest number of non-CS students
   • referred the highest number of CS and non-CS students combined
4. For the referral to be valid, the complete name of the referrer should exist on the referral field on the membership form.
5. The referral is considered void if (1) there are vandalisms/erasures found on the referral field (on paper forms), and (2) the recruit is a former member of the org.
6. In case of renewals, leave the referral field blank.
7. A recruiter can only win a single category. The council will tally and rank recruiters based on the number of members they recruited in the designated categories and then decide the winners for each category.
8. The end of the campaign which is on June 30 is also the end of membership renewal.
9. The prizes will be announced at the end of the campaign. (probably cash, if the finance head will approve it)

Good luck! Any inquiries should be sent to membership [{at}] upacm [{dot}] net.

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.

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!

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!