Opera Campus Crew Blog

The Opera Campus Crew in the Philippines held an Opera 10 World Series Event on another campus last, 12 December 2009 at the Holy Child College of Information Technology in Surallah, Philippines. The event was split into two sessions of around 100 participants in each session, one in the morning and another one in the afternoon.

Based on past experiences with presentation in other schools, we could say that the students and teachers in-charge of the activity really put their hearts into the preparation. We (Me, Alexis and George Lemuel) were welcomed by the students were given garlands which is quite a surprise since it was the first time we experienced that from all of the schools in which we conducted a seminar and demo day.

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Following on from yesterday’s launch of the long-awaited Opera 10.10 with Unite, we are launching a new activity initiative for the Opera Campus Crew: Opera Unite Geek-ups!

What is an Opera Unite Geek-up? It’s an interactive and informal gathering where people can come to learn about Opera Unite, and most importantly to explore, play and experiment with its applications and technologies. It'll bring out your inner geek!

Follow our guide to giving presentations, though to increase the interactivity of the Geek-up you should try to hold it in a computer lab or another room where the audience can have internet access. If it is impossible to find such a location on your campus, you can hold it in a regular classroom so long as the presenters have internet access and a projector. Make sure you are familiar with Opera Unite and have explored the different applications before you plan your Opera Unite Geek-up.

Resources
• Example agenda: We suggest starting with an overview of Opera and Opera Unite, and have provided a list of tasks you can do on Opera Unite with your audience. We also suggest closing the event with a brainstorm of new Opera Unite applications. You can then send these ideas to me, and the best ideas will be published on My Opera and the Opera Unite blog.
• Slideset: For the Geek-ups we have created a slideset about Opera Unite, using Opera’s built-in Web presentation tool, Opera Show. To run the presentation, open the folder and ‘extract all files’ to another folder. Then open the file called "presentation.html". You will see here a linear version of the presentation with speakers notes; click View > Full Screen in your Opera browser (or F11 on your keyboard) to view it in presentation mode.
• Handout: Our Developer Relations team at Opera Software is also working on a handout about how to develop an Opera Unite application... coming soon!
• As usual we can provide you with swag, promotional posters, certificates and feedback forms. Just fill in the request form and send it to us at least three weeks before your event.

Opera is keen to make some campaigns around Opera Unite Geek-ups, so make sure to take photos and even during your event and include them with your blog post. Great opportunities to take photos are during question time, group discussions, interactive tasks, and you can even get the whole group to say hello from your university and country at the end.

We hope you are keen to show off Opera Unite through the Geek-ups, and we hope to see some happening soon.

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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This time I gave an Opera Mini presentation to the student of STTI I-Tech Jakarta Indonesia along with Pak Harjono, 2nd Deputy Chairman (also a member of OCC-UK) in Student Gathering event. The event was held on Friday, 12 June 2009. STTI I-Tech Jakarta is located in south Jakarta near center of business area.

I shared the student with Google things and a little about social networking and closed with Opera Mini, how you could visit your site using your phone.

I also played some of Opera Mini videos. You could see participant watching ‘Opera Link – convergence’ video

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In addition to an exhibition on scientific software engineering on Tuesday 16 June 2009, my fellow member Dwiza and I also held a seminar to introduce Opera as a more reliable and better browser than any other browser. We recommended the audience to download Opera at opera.com and become newest Opera Campus Crew member toos. The seminar was attended by 300 students. Here are some photos taken at the exhibition scientific software engineering STMIK Nusa Mandiri.

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