Opera Campus Crew Blog

After a snappy installation of Opera 10.10 on all computers in the computer labs of Green Valley College Foundation, Inc. in Koronadal City, the Philippines, and each unit proudly bearing a "There's an Opera in here" sticker, the Opera Campus Crew in the Philippines had a really fun Opera 10 World Series event - the first one in the campus. We had two sessions for today, one in the morning, and the other one in the afternoon. The first session was attended by more than 60 students, while the second session was attended by around 120 students, plus three college instructors/lab administrators.

Based on past experiences with presentations in other schools, the two presentations today were the best, so far, as we can feel the excitement in the air as the students get to experience an unfamiliar, yet a spectacular browser. The experience was particularly better since everyone had the chance to explore the browser for themselves.

We around an hour late since the administrators still had to set-up the computer and the screen that will be used in the presentations, since we did not have a laptop to use. And we almost shouted our lungs out while speaking since their sound system is in use in another event.

Kicking off each presentation is George Lemuel talking about Opera Software and its products. Next off is my talk on Opera Education and Opera Campus Crew, followed by a talk on Web Standards and how it is important in our daily lives in cyberspace. After the talk, we had the Opera 10 hands-on demonstration, with Xyrilloid facilitating, and using NetSupport School to better demonstrate the cool features of Opera 10.

As we watched the audience watch the demonstration, we observed that the features that had the most 'ooohs' and 'ahhs' are: Mouse Gestures, Quick Search, and Opera Turbo. In between topics, we had trivia questions to beat sleepiness out from some, of course with Opera swag for the ones with the correct answers.

After the second session, we had a chance to talk to the lab administrators and show them more of the great features of Opera. One that really caught their attention is Opera Unite! One instructor said he will give us a ring when he wants demonstrations for ALL OTHER students of the college, since we only spoke to students with computer-related courses! It's also great to know that he will disable IE and Firefox for Opera to the college's EXCLUSIVE browser! He was also happy to inform us that he has installed Opera in the internet cafe that he owns, after experiencing Opera 10.10 that we have installed in the computer labs yesterday.

We are looking forward to having more demonstrations in Green Valley College and, possibly, more computers to install Opera in! And also, with the enthusiasm seen from the audience today, we think that the 20 Opera Campus Crew slots for Green Valley College will be filled in no time!

Hi folks,

Firstly, I’d like to say sorry for everyone because I’m late to post the report about the bunch of events ( seminars, presentation, quizzes, Demos, etc) which I organize in my university Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad during our technical fest “Effervescence MM’09’ held from 1st to 5th oct,2009.
Effervescence MM’09 is considered to be the biggest tech-management fest in the country where students from all over India rush to Allahabad to participate. For online events, we get participation from all over the world which includes some of the best coders of the world. The 42 events during the fest anticipated a huge participation of 8,000 students at our campus and a whopping no. of 17,400 students at all which includes online as well as on campus participation.

I thank Varun jain and Yogesh Khatri (other OCC members at my university) for their support in organizing these events.

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Hi,

This is Pj Singh from panjabi university, India. I joined Opera Campus Crew around a month back. This is my first blog at opera campus crew community. I am writing this blog to inform all of you about my first opera mini and opera desktop presentation that i am going to make on 5 june 2009 in IT Department @ 2 p.m. . At the start there will be a presentation on opera mini for mobile phone and opera desktop. Complete guidance will be given on how to download, install and use opera browser on mobile and desktop. It will be followed by Q & A round. Three winners will get opera t-shirts. At the end flyers, hand outs and goodies will be given to all. Around 200 students are expected to attend the presentation.

After almost a long time of preparation, the Opera Software Demo Seminar at the Southeast Asian Institute of Technology in Tupi, South Cotabato, the Philippines, was held today, February 22, at their Computer Laboratory. Twenty-three students from the Information Technology and Computer Programming Departments attended the said seminar.

The event was a huge success, getting high ratings from the attendees.

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At the end of its first calendar year, the Opera Campus Crew and activities have truly kicked off! Here’s a little overview of what the Campus Crew has achieved since it was first launched in early October.

Approximately 878 computers now have Opera installed in 37 computer labs, 3 internet cafes, 1 dean’s office, and 1 campus newspaper office around the world. This spans the Philippines, Mexico, Brazil, Ukraine, Russia, Indonesia and India. Thank you to the 15 campuses who made this happen!

278 students were reached in our 6 Opera Campus Crew presentations about web standards and Opera at University of Debrecen in Hungary, Balti State University "Alecu Russo" in Moldova, and Gadjah Mada University and Gunadarma University in Indonesia. Hundreds more students heard about Opera through other technical events co-organised by Campus Crew members from National Institute of Technology (Warangal) in India and Altai State Technical University in Russia. 17 Campus Crew members also helped us organise 11 of our university tour seminars.

3 articles about Opera, its products or the Campus Crew were arranged by Campus Crew members at Bogazici University in Turkey, Lycée Alexis de Tocqueville in France, and University of Mumbai in India. 138 people have taken the Opera University Survey.

The Opera Campus Crew now has 530 members, across 317 campuses, in 51 countries! In just the past two weeks we have seen Ghana, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, South Korea and Vietnam join the Campus Crew. Welcome aboard!

Opera has also been excited to hear from you about your personal achievements as Campus Crew members – those of you who had your first experiences with public speaking, met new people and built networks and friendships, stepped up to leadership roles, gained more insight into how your university policies work, and developed skills that you might not normally gain from your courses.

We are excited about your achievements in 2008, and glad that you were able to be with us as the pioneers of the new Opera Campus Crew program. Next year we hope to see even more of our branches actively involved in Campus Crew activity, and extending into other activities like Demo Days, student interviews and the Web Standards Curriculum.

We look forward to working with you in 2009, and best of luck for the new year!