Opera Software University Tours

The Indonesia University tour this year was started on 16th November 2009 in Surabaya city. The weather in this city is around 34 degrees Celcius, pretty warm, but it was nice after having gray days in Oslo!

We arrived in Stikom Surabaya pretty early, 2 hours before, in case of the traffic jam happend. The lecturers guided us to walk around the university, and showed some awesome stuff that were made by some of the students there. Some of them is a dish washer



and a tool that can shake the Angklung instrument to play songs.



Bruce Lawson, Zibin Cheah and I were enjoying Indonesian food at the canteen, accompanied by the director of Stikom as well, before the seminar was started.



This seminar was attended more than 300 students. Most of them were IT students, although there were also around 10 students are majoring in secretary.

In the evening we also met with some students from Stikom and also from My Opera Community based in Surabaya. It was nice to meet and know all of them.

A slight change of pace for today: no university visits scheduled, but a keynote for the World Usability Day event of the Rhein-Rhur region, hosted at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf.

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After a very long train journey last night (as nice as the ICE trains are, spending almost 6 hours in one gets a bit boring, believe me) we finally had a chance for a bit of a lie-in this morning.

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After another early start and a pleasant train journey we found our way to the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg, to be greeted by our uni tour posters on prominent display.

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We're two days into the German University Tour, which sees us zig-zagging across Deutschland to cover 9 universities in 8 different cities over the course of two weeks. As my colleague Alexandra and I are now packing up for our second destination, it seems an appropriate time to say goodbye to Berlin and to give a quick recap of the tour so far.

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