A few thoughts.. Should we use the Occasion to launch a Few initiatives...
1. Its Ten years and I dont think our College has a Entrepreuenership(chuck the spelling) Cell or a Idea Incubator..Alumni can chip in with Industry trends(what we can get off techcrunch :-))..Startup ideas can be groomed...
2. Start a Linux Club...Circuit branches should get a Linux club running..10 Students over a week can download and almost have every single distro available...and ...We should use occasion to announce launch of our own Distro...http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/..let students and alumni cooperate to have a ubuntu flavor out by EOY. Easy to do, big mileage...
3. Add jforum to the alumni site..forum to discuss project ideas for 3rd 4th year with alumni...Alumni can have a Project idea disrupt session as a regular activity...lets face it...eventually we are gonna get bored with ritchie street project ideas/govt canteens et all...advise on GRE/CAT prep..the possibilities are endless..investment insignificant...
4. For starters..ensure all E3 and Project stuff,implant trainings go into the site...it will be incredible selling point to placements...
eventually get d2d class material into the site..Alumni should supply a regular visitor group for such events...
5. Ensure Alumni is part of Placement and Symposium Steering commitee and advisory board..(for both funding/sponsorship as well as contacts) and direction and industry trending...
6. No offense..we will never be able to muster the same amount of funding that colleges on OMR can or have alumni meets at Green park or residency towers...what we lack there we must make up with elan and productiveness of the association..if its not worthwhile for ppl to spend time..the time spent is not going to come back..
Your thoughts are welcome...
Sudharshun
Thumbs up, to the Entrepreneurship Cell or whatever we want to call it.. jForum is a nice idea, not much of an effort required there.. Do we need to dump in every other paper and project stuff into the site??
ReplyDeleteSigh!!! Wish we could also have these meetings in the stars(hotels) :P
Sounds like a plan. I am in for the game, in whatever way way i can support the above initiatives, and certainly, root for the Entrepreuenership(i go with Sudharshun, chuck the spelling) Cell or a Idea Incubator.
ReplyDelete@ Arun: Eventually we will have em in Star hotels...Let them get it uploaded..remember our Dept made us give a CD and hardcopy for every E3 and project...if the college doesnt upload them i will sue them for discarding Intellectual property..hehe..
ReplyDelete@ Rajesh..Wow..as they say it takes two to tango...good..who knows maybe sponsor a MAC and we might have our own inhouse iphone app gang in college..:-)...
So Shiva, Can u enquire on How much its gonna cost us have a forum up and running?
Lets get it launched..work out the logistics as we go..we need atleast 5 six ideas which we can kickoff alongwith the Website to anchor the show together..and ensure..we meet often adn not after 15 years for the 25th yr event...:-)
There you are... back to form.. I am confident we have Good times ahead of us! :)
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