Climate change is putting life on earth in peril. There is still time to build a greener, safer world. But the clock is ticking. In December world leaders will meet in Copenhagen to decide our destiny.We want our political leaders to be in Copenhagen and to show historic leadership in achieving a treaty which is fabulous.The world needs a wake-up call on climate change. In September a perfect storm will gather with the the UN General Assembly on Sept 22 and the G20 leaders meet on 24-25.
A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse.
In Kerala, the flash mob will be held in Trivandrum, the capital at 3.50 pm..Calling all youth out for a once-again Youth Climate Action to show that a demand is needed from the public side for a binding treaty by all the world leaders and we want our leaders to know and understand that the time to act and take up actions is NOW

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On August 29th, the Flash Mob conducted at Oberon Mall, in Cochin,was successful in sending a strong voice to the public regarding the importance of the UN summit on Climate Change to be held from Dec7 in Copenhagen..Also the day saw hundreds of youth from different parts of the state,supporting organizations

ExNoRa, a non-government Chennai-based voluntary environmental service organisation, has launched a a massive Cool the Globe campaign by name, “99999 lights out” to create awareness on global warming, its causes, consequences and solutions. The campaign carries the message - switch off lights for 9 minutes at 9 p.m. on the 9th day of the 9th month on the 9th year of the millennium. The aim of the 99999 Lights Out Campaign is to combat Global warming, to make people more conscious about the environment, to motivate people to reduce their respective carbon footprint, to mitigate climate change and to teach people Adaptation and Disaster Preparedness techniques.

How can you contribute?

Grow more trees. Use Energy efficient equipments. Practice transport simplicity, Switch on lights only when it is necessary, Turn off your lights when not in use. Adapt an eco-friendly lifestyle. Reduce waste & Conserve water. Trap methane and convert it as fuel.

Its that time of the year again when brains from all over theAsiameet each other face2face, compete with all their programming and problem solving skills in C, C++ and Java.. Yes..!! You guessed it right.. its ICPCtime again atAmrita University..!!

Welcome to ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest2009 Asia Regionals, the multitier, team-based,programming competition operating under the auspices of ACM and headquartered at Baylor University.
ACM ICPC 2009 Asia Regionals - Online Contest over internet will be held at Amrita University,Kerala.
Each team will consist of 3 members, all undergraduate, and they will be asked to solve a set of 8-10 programming challenge problems - mostly based on algorithms, within a period of 4 hours.!! The choice of programming language between Java, C++ and C is upto the team.
How to register????
A team can only compete in ACM ICPC 2009 Asia Regionals, if-n-only-if they’ve registered for the same. So, register here Registration is for one team, consisting of 3 contestants and one coach. The “coach”
refers to any full time faculty member of the university or institution, where the
contestants pursue their studies.
Hurry up!!! Last date for registration is: 9 September 2009.

For more info, visit http://icpc.amrita.ac.in/site/

vosree,,the voice of sree buddha,,,a small dream of a heart which has fulfilled the dreams of many,has crossed yet another milestone of 15k hits.So for the celebration of the historic moment ,what else better than opening another door for the future engineers.The members of the vosree club under the inspiring leadership of Mr.sujith .T.John,CS8 organised an entrepreneurship development class.

The whole college got the opportunity to attend the celebration cum class in the last hour on 12th of February 2008.Mr Sreejith S,Technical Officer Technopark-Technology Business Incubator, thiruvanathapuram.As usual the programme started off with a prayer song,followed by the welcome speech by Sujith.T.John.The presidential address was given by Our beloved principal Dr.K.V.Purushothaman in which he reflected how glad he was to help out such a talented bunch of students.

After which the chief guest gave away the prizes to 5 members of the vosree family in 5 different categories.

Mr Sankar Ram of S8 ME for writing the post with most number of hits( http://www.vosree.com/yamaha-fz16-review )

Ms. Swetha S.Prabha of S8 CSE for writing the most popular post (http://www.vosree.com/perillatha-oru-katha)

Mr.Pillai Sreejith Sree of S8 ECE for being the most active blogger(22 posts including 4 book reviews http://www.vosree.com/author/sreejithec05)

MS. Vineetha N.N

of S4 BT for posting the best Tech post (http://www.vosree.com/greener-earth%E2%80%A6better-lives%E2%80%A6 )

Mr Karthik Soman of S8 EEE for being the most active person in vosree by writing comments and posts ( http://www.vosree.com/suzuki-gs150r-by-karthik )

This was to encourage the creators out there in the audience who were still hiding from the limelight.

Then Mr Sreejith S our chief guest took classes on entrepreneurship development and technopark business incubator support for about 20 mins in which he highlighted how the budding innovators or dreamers are going to have their dreams and ambitions fulfilled with proper guidance and assistance.

Ashwathy Nair ,CS8,gave the vote of thanks.The programme was planned in a short time but it was worth attending.May VOSREE attain many more heights and be an inspiration to many.

TEN India and Campus Blogging Initiative is organizing a Free PHP workshop for the Sixth semester students of CUSAT. Before going into the details as to the venue timings etc I would like to shed some light on the backdrop that led to this initiative.

Most of the mini projects in the computer science department were being made in PHP. But the students (as is the case in most colleges) do not have any idea about what PHP is or how to work with it. Taking cognizance of this fact Mr. Binny VA came forward to help the students out. He is a professional LAMP developer and has extensive free lance experience in developing PHP based projects. The workshop would be held from 10 am to 3pm on Sunday,11-01-09 at room No. 14 of the Old SOE building in CUSAT. Hopefully this benevolence shown by Mr Binny would encourage other professional developers to come forward and share their knowledge on the plethora of languages and software that a student in Computer Science has to deal with.
Since the only one classroom has been allocated we have already registered 15 students who would be coming for this workshop. Hopefully we will organize this on a bigger scale next time around
We would like to thank Mr. Kenney Jacob for facilitating our interaction with Mr Binny. We hope to further work together with him in the future for organizing camps of this nature.

Is blogging an easy task? Is it for everybody? What are the basics that one needs to know before he sets foot in this mysterious world of words, programming and search engine optimization??

Well, the answers would be: yes, yes, and nothing that can’t be handled in one session by the campus blogging team.
A handful of blogger wannabes and beginner bloggers assembled at the Mind Parlor, Ponnurunni, on 19th October, for precisely this purpose. Though, initially, there was a fear that perhaps the experts would outnumber the students two to one, a couple of late arrivals set an even field for the event.

It all started out with Kenney’s description of the campus blogging initiative. The opportunities and the benefits of having such a programme were discussed at length. There were also sporadic discussions of the possible interpretations of the campus blogging logo. The three sites which have already embraced the revolution are progressing along nicely, Sree Buddha College’s ‘vosree.com’ deserving special mention.

Seeing vosree.com, one gets the distinct feeling of being within a campus. The motorcycle diaries, the lab stories, the pranks and the trivial comments all go a long way in setting the environment. All in all, probably a must have for every college. A campus outside a campus. Though, the advantage of this one being, you can never get suspended or dismissed, you will only get banned. 

Then it was Anand’s turn to take the floor and try to impress the newbies with WordPress talk. The blogging platform is one of the most popular, and has been catching on like wild fire since its launch. The most spectacular feature of WordPress probably lies in the amount of customization that it is capable of undergoing. Whatever the blogger’s needs maybe, there is a good chance that you he might find a plugin already there, all set to do the job for him. Given the features, the platform’s success and popularity are no real surprise.

Then it was time to look at the technology that drives the entire system. The servers that host the platform, and the people who take care of the servers. (Forgot the name. Sorry) took the assembled on a lightning tour of the nuances of the entire process, astonishing some, confusing many, and boring one. 

That finished off a day where a lot of people got to learn a lot of stuff, and some took the opportunity to show off with what knowledge they had of the blogging world. But, the true achievement of the day was not just that. The true achievement was the formation of a support group that has the potential of educating more in the future.

The effort is on already to outnumber the trainers by a substantial number for the next meeting, to ensure that they do not show off as much as they had the luxury of doing this time. Hope you will be there with us then as well. Counting on it. See ya!!

Report By  :- Jithin Krishnan

In preparations for the Campus Blogging Initiative, a WordPress themeing workshop was done at Cochin and was attended by a 5 students.

Basics of PHP and WordPress were discussed and then a hands on training was given in developing themes.

Campus Blogging has already become a great initiative in the state with the number of campus blogs growing to 7. Blogging is no more an alien term in campuses today.With the popularity of the idea of campus blogging growing day by day, a group of campus bloggers from Four Engineering colleges gathered at Technopark Thiruvananthapuram on the 21st of February 2009.The meeting was organised by Campus blogging Initiative under the leadership of Mr.Kenney Jacob and Mr.Sanil S

Mr kenney started the discussions by introducing the newly desined logo for Barcampkerala by Mr.Jithin Babu of vosree.com. The logo simply explains the barcampkerala-technopark tieup.

Mr.Rajesh Babu,CEO of Mirox Cyber Security & Technology Pvt Ltd addressed the gathering and distributed the T-shirts for the Best Blogger of the Month Competition to the representatives from Each College

Mr Kenney and Mr Sanil led discusions on topics like the must have plugins in a campusblog,Best/Must practices,Using Windows live writer for blogging, Using a project management tool for co-ordinating the activities of the campus blogging initiative,Finalizing Campus blogging policies and future of campus blogging

Mr.Sujith T.John of vosree.com led a session on the top 10 posts in vosree and the story behind them.

The unconference was really active with the participation from the campus bloggers…The meeting concluded by 12.30 pm.The participants had a nice time roaming around the technopark and having lunch from the food court at Thejaswani building after the sessions….

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