Opera Software University Tours

The jurney from Bandung to Jakarta was taken around 4 hours this time. It usually only takes half time of that, if it was not pouring rain and we didn't get stuck in the traffic because the President of the United State just arrived in town. But we enjoyed the trip. A part from that, we got a bad and good news. Good news, we have a day to take a breath from the hectic schedule. YAY! The bad one was that Rolf Assev, our Chief Strategy Officer, couldn't be able to enter Indonesia to attend some university seminars in Jakarta. All the International airlines were stop flying to Indonesia because of the Merapi eruption. But both of us managed to be the stars at the events.

Anyway, it's good to be back in Budi Luhur University in Jakarta. I saw some familiar faces, and many more new ones. As usual, it's fun to be in Budi Luhur because of the hospitality shown by the attendants - always a lively crowd.

We've also received many interesting questions from the floor. One particular question came from a lecturer which asked how HTML5 is going to give access to a computer's camera. This is very interesting particular at a time when DAP is taking shape in the Web Standards world. With DAP, we want to give developers access to a range of different things including the address book, the camera and such. For more information about DAP, read what Robin Berjon co-chair of DAP in W3C has to say.

You can also take a look at the Opera Web Standards slides.

Next week we are visiting 5 campuses in Indonesia! We are also organizing community meet-ups in Bandung and Jakarta, so if you are around make sure to stop by and meet up with Zi Bin Cheah from Developer Relations, Rolf Assev, our Chief Stratefy Officer Opera Software and Anissa Putri, as Marketing Coordinator for Indonesia. Here's the seminar's schedules:

Bandung:
Monday, 8 Nov 2010 @09.30-11.00 & 12.30-14.00
Bandung Institute of Technology

Tuesday, 9 Nov 2010 @10.00-11.00
Maranatha Christian University

Jakarta:
Thursday, 11 Nov 2010 @09.30-11.30
Budi Luhur University

Thursday, 11 Nov 2010 @13.00-15.00
Bina Nusantara University

Friday, 12 Nov 2010 @13.00-15.00
Atma Jaya University

Meet-Ups:
Monday, 8 Nov 2010 @19.00-21.00: Ngopi Doeloe, Jl. Teuku Umar No. 5 Bandung
Friday, 12 Nov 2010 @19.00-21.00: SoHo Music Cafe, Senayan City Jakarta

Stay tune to get the tour updates from Indonesia!

We were still in the same city, the same temperature, 34 degrees Celcius, like the day before, and with the same crowd Zibin, Bruce and me.
We had the seminar at Sepuluh Nophember Institute of Technology in Indonesia. And this was the second time we visited it, but with different audiences from last year.

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We couldn't get enough of nasi goreng and Indonesian hospitality. So we went back to Indonesia and visited Universitas Binus Nusantara, or better known as Binus.

Opera is invited as guest lecture and we got to sit down with 50 IT students to talk about "Mobile browsing and it's browser"

I am happy to be accompanied by three other Opera Campus Crew members: Mega, Yogi and Pak Risanto. They joined the campus crew program last year after we visited their universities. Mega kicked off the lecture by giving an introduction about Opera Campus Crew.

Students were curious to know about the one web philosophy. A student asked why his website works fine in one browser but not another. Apparently, web designers here are keen to make sure their sites are supported across different browsers.


Post-presentation, photos with friends.

After Binus, we moved on to Jakarta's Mobile Monday event. Ali and Ryan, both long time friends of Opera came to join us. We presented to the crowd about Mobile browsing trends and Opera.

The slides from the presentation in pdf is downloadable.The Open Web Standards demo can be viewed by firing up index.html in Opera browser and going into fullscreen mode. You will need Opera with Video Support to run some of the demos.


Opera friends at Mobile Monday: (from left)Ali, Risanto, Zibin, Yogi, Ryan and Mega(the only girl!).

Last but not least in Indonesia, we arrrived at Yogjakarta. This is a city with a blend of history and nature. Borobudur is an ancient pagoda lying in the heart of the jungle, which was built by several ancient kingdom in South East Asia. Lying some distance away from the city, we have the Merapi Volcano. This volcano is still very much alive and puffs smokes once in a while.

The Borobudur Temple

Gadjah Mada University students are a lively lot, and questions were thrown one after another toward us! My favourite question came from an insistent student who wants to learn more about encryption. The evening after the presentation, I was given a demonstration by Gajah Mada security experts in our meet-up in a local cafe.

Meet-up with users in Yogjakarta