Represent Your College with Fedora Campus Ambassador Program!!!

What is the Campus Ambassadors program?

The Campus Ambassadors program is connected to the larger Fedora Ambassadors project. Where most Ambassadors focus on their region or country, Campus Ambassadors focus on promoting Fedora at their schools -- high schools and universities around the world. All Campus Ambassadors are fully vetted Ambassadors and enjoy all of the benefits of being in that group, along with the chance to socialize and plan with fellow students.

Why does Campus Ambassadors exist?

To build up individual Fedora communities on campuses, and provide resources for students to organize events and contribute their code and ideas to Fedora.
To help students network with other open source and Fedora contributors, and lay the groundwork for potential summer internships
To create a fun and exciting network of passionate, dedicated people to spearhead Fedora's presence on college campuses
To work with faculty and students both to promote free and open source software on campus

What do Campus Ambassadors get?

Opportunities to learn and increase your knowledge about Fedora, Linux and Open Source.
Create a name for yourself and network with a world class team of people who put together and run the most cutting edge distro and community out there.
Have your blog aggregated on Planet Fedora.
A great opportunity to learn and develop communication skills.
Lots of experience doing community-driven marketing.
Stipends for running an event (pizza, soda, etc.).
Swag to give out at events supporting Fedora.
Possible sponsorship to other Fedora events, such as FUDCon.

What is required of Campus Ambassadors?

Being an active member of the Ambassadors program. The reason for this is outlined here.
Let us know an event is taking place by posting to the wiki and the mailing list.
An event report and blog post as a followup. This report should also be on this wiki page for future event planning.
Work with faculty and staff to find new ways and opportunities for Fedora on your campus.
Be a self-starter and identify other ways in which we can help YOU!
Attend periodic IRC meetings to help coordinate efforts.
Collaborate and coordinate with other Fedora presence on/near your campus.

What do Campus Ambassadors do?

As we are still in our formative stages, so we don't really have a set list of "here are things you do for Campus Ambassadors." What we do have, and are constantly working on are our Campus Ambassador Ideas. These are a bunch of things that Campus Ambassadors have done, what they have learned from those things, and some ideas for possible future events.

How do I become a Campus Ambassador?

I am not a Fedora Ambassador
Ask yourself if you are up for the task by answering 3 simple questions.
Consult Ambassadors/Join and go through the process of joining the ambassadors program.
I am a Fedora Ambassador, or I have recently become one
Ask for membership in the FAS group
Join and introduce yourself on the mailing list.
Join the IRC Channels #fedora-campusamb at irc.freenode.net.
Get going!!

Refer
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors/Join

Virtual Reality

Virtusphere, Inc. develops and markets a locomotion platform that allows users to be completely immersed into their interactive virtual experience.




How it works: Virtusphere consists of a 10-foot hollow sphere, which is placed on a
special platform that allows the sphere to rotate freely in any direction according to
the user’s steps. Wearing a wireless, head-mounted
display the user is able to walk and run being immersed into virtual environment.
The movement by the user is replicated within the virtual environment. The same
hardware set can be used for different applications by changing only the software
applications.

Markets and applications for Virtusphere include but are not limited to:
• Military, law enforcement , and other dangerous occupations for safely training,practical    skills of users preparing for dangerous environments
• Gaming and entertainment
• Health and fitness
• Education and museums
• Architecture and construction-site 3D model walk-through
• Virtual travel and tourism
• Events and Shows
• Home gaming

Strange Facts

1. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

2. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

3. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

4. On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

5. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

6. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

7. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

8. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

9. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.

10. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com

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Gyro Technology

Gyro Technology

This wild new motorcycle, invented by 19-year-old Ben J. Poss Gulak, is among the latest inventions to capture attention.Debuting at the National Motorcycle Show in Toronto, the "Uno" uses gyro technology for balance and acceleration.
It is a battery charged machine that accelerates by leaning forward and slowing down by leaning backwards. It weighs approximately 129 pounds (58 kg.) and has a top speed of 25 mph (40 kms).

World’s tallest buildings

It’s a status symbol for the countries that have them built and there seem to be no end in the quest to build the world’s tallest buildings. Known as skyscrapers, they differ from towers in that these buildings offer residential and/or office and have floors all the way up.

	Building	Stories	Metres	Feet	City, Country	Year	Architects
1	Burj Khalifa	160	800	2,640	Dubai, UAE	2008	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
2	Russia Tower	134	648	2,126	Moscow, Russia	2010	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
3	International Business Centre	130	580	1,903	Seoul, South Korea	2008	UN Studio
4	Lotte World II	107	512	1,680	Busan, South Korea	2012	Stephan Huh, Parker Design
5	Taipei 101 Tower	101	509	1,670	Taipei, Taiwan	2004	C.Y. Lee & Partner
6	Shanghai World Financial Center	101	492	1,614	Shanghai, China	2008	Kohn Pedersen Fox
7	Union Square Phase 7	102	474	1,555	Hong Kong, China	2010	Kohn Pedersen Fox
8	Suyong Bay Tower	102	462	1,516	Busan, South Korea	2010	Kohn Pedersen Fox
9	Xujiahui Tower	92	460	1,509	Shanghai, China	2010	John Portman & Associates
10	Petronas Towers 1 & 2	88	452	1,483	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	1998	Cesar Pelli

Tallest buildings 2007

	Building	Stories	Height (m)	Height (ft)	City, Country	Year	Architects
1	Taipei 101 Tower	101	509	1,670	Taipei, Taiwan	2004	C.Y. Lee & Partner
2	Petronas Towers 1	88	452	1,483	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	1998	Cesar Pelli
3	Petronas Towers 2	88	452	1,483	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	1998	Cesar Pelli
4	Sears Tower	108	442	1,451	Chicago, Il, USA	1974	Bruce Graham
5	Jin Mao Building	88	421	1,381	Shanghai, China	1999	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
6	Two International Finance	88	415	1,362	Hong Kong, China	2003	Cesar Pelli
7	CITIC Plaza	80	391	1,283	Guangzhou, China	1996	DLN Architects
8	Shun Hing Square	69	384	1,260	Shenzhen, China	1996	K.Y. Cheung
9	Empire State Building	102	381	1,250	New York, NY, USA	1931	Shreve, Lamb and Harmon
10	Central Plaza	78	374	1,227	Hong Kong, China	1992	Ng Chun Man

Burj Dubai being constructed. It was completed in January 2010.

Skyscraper Day is celebrated every year on September, 3rd

Courtesy : didyouknow.org

Teaching In digital world

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Fifa 11 PC - My Review

Fifa 11 is one of the latest addition of EA Sports football games series. Personally, This is one of the awesome football games I played on PC. For the first time there is a console experience in PC for Fifa Soccer series games. The graphics look so real that you actually feel the game. There is a New Improved Manager Mode where you can even set the difficulty level of The Board. The AI is very smart and you find it hard to score more.

But the most interesting thing I liked in this is the inclusion of Be a Pro mode, where you can control one player which is yourself!!! There is a Career Mode for Be a Pro. You can Create your own player and customize. You can start playing with any club. The main objective of this career mode is to get selected to International Squad from a Reserve Squad Player. You will be getting good transfer offers and salaries as you play. Want to play for your country in International Level ??? Well performance is the key factor..

But I didn't find out much support for Online Game Modes. That is the sad part in this version. In order to play online, I need to register for the EA Sports Portal. Thats pretty intriguing.

The Graphics is certainly a huge improvement over last year’s game.Stadiums sound alive and well thanks to a raucous crowd and the same goes for the commentary duo.

So overall, based on my gaming experience I will give it 8.0/10.0

-Vishal A. Kulkarni


Image Courtesy - www.gamespot.com

A successful TWO Years at SDMCET...

Today I completed two years at SDMCET as lecturer.. Joined on Feb 18 2009.. Was never knowing I would end up in such a noble profession where my teachers became my colleagues.. In the initial stages it was very hard for me to get adjusted from student life to lecturer life. Now I am quite comfortable.. I found out that this is the profession where I can explore lot of different areas of research. I taught C-Programming twice, Discrete Math Structures. Now I m teaching Computer Graphics.
Anyway I thank all my colleagues who have made good memories in past 2 years and made my journey successful..

Last but not the least, Its my Students who made it more comfortable...

Thank U one and all....
More memories to come.... :)