Opera Software University Tours

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

We flew from Jakarta to the Apple Town, called Malang. In Brawijaya University, there were around 250 students who attended the seminar. We gave the Opera Messenger bag and Opera bookmark to the participants.

Then, we drove to another university called Ma Chung University. We were welcomed by the rain! Around 230 students were joining the seminar after the class ended. We also gave Opera merchandise to the students who were asking questions.

Picture will be uploaded soon!

Update:

Both universities had great crowds. Our mediator in Brawijaya was an entertaining host. Also, Brawijaya must have been special to Putri as it is her alma matter. Here goes the photo! (Zibin)

A picture taken in Ma Chung University.

Wow..... we still feel amazed with the environment and the facilities in this university. Especially the canteen


And just wanna let you know that Pelita Harapan University is surrounded by the A1 circuit called Serpong circuit.

We are so happy to be there. The room was fulled by around 90 students and lecturers.


The lecturer also showed the next venue for the next year seminar

ITT is a university which is focusing to support the development of technology dan telecommunication industry. I'm glad that Opera team can visit this uni. Almost 250 students were there to join and follow the seminar.

Afterwards, we went to a nice place in Dago for the meet up (picture will be upload soon). It was very nice to meet the fans of Opera. We were sharing experiences while enjoying the very nice view with a nice weather.

Photo Update :

Lovely!