My coming initiatives for Green Computing/Orphans July 20, Senior Citizens July 26
I will be having 2 events that is worth to highlight in my blog:
Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008
Organizers: MIND and Mesiniaga (co-organizer)
Venue: FRIM (within the forest)
Target audience: 60 orphans (age between 8 - 17), 60 working adults (registration will open soon), 10 (organizers, press)
Press: Newspaper, Magazines and TV Channel (tentative). PC.COM is confirmed coming and covering.
Entrance: It's free. MIND (my community) will be covering everything including lunch.
The session is a platform to educate the kids/adults about Green Computing as well as building synergies between the orphans and IT working professionals. There will be indoor and outdoor activities. Thanks to Microsoft for sponsoring my community and making things happen.
Current sponsors: Dell Malaysia, Microsoft Malaysia, Microsoft Singapore, Microsoft MVP SEA Team, Microsoft Corp - VSTS Team, ISA Technologies, eQuva, Jetbrains, O'Reilly, PeachPit, PC.COM, SSW Australia, Red-Gate.
|
Time |
Topics |
| 9.00 a.m. |
Registration and Breakfast |
| 9.30 a.m. |
Welcome address and Keynote 1 – Mr. Fathil Sulaiman Ismail (Mesiniaga Managing Director) |
| 9.45 a.m. |
Green Computing Keynote 2 - Dell Country Manager Pang Yee Beng (TBC) |
| 9.55 a.m. |
Prize Giving Ceremony to Home by Dell + Photo Shooting with all sponsors involved |
| 10.05 a.m. |
Green Computing Overview (Ms. Hazreen, Mesiniaga) |
| 10.20 a.m. |
Approaches to Green Computing (Lim Fun Jin, ISA Technologies) |
| 10.40 a.m. |
Green Technology Speaker 2 (Microsoft) |
| 11.00 a.m. |
Canopy Walk (4 groups) |
| 11.00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
Press Briefing by Main Sponsor (Dell) and Organizer (MIND) and Mesiniaga |
| 1.30 p.m. |
Buffet Lunch (mingle with the kids) |
| 2.30 p.m. |
The End |
If any of you like to be our sponsors, drop me an email. I am not looking at cash funding, instead anything that you can sponsors to rock these kids or donate to the Orphanage Home. Thanks.
The event promotion will be advertised soon. Stay tuned.
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008
Organizers: MIND
Speaker Highlight: Yew Ban and Poh Sze
Venue: Microsoft Malaysia (Auditorium)
Target audience: minimum 30, maximum 100 senior citizens (age 40 - 70)
Press: Unknown yet. Probably Mandarin Newspaper.
Entrance: It's free. MIND's session is always free and making impact for the community in Malaysia
This is the 1st session that MIND will be conducting in Mandarin (traditional chinese) as well as to senior citizen. The prerequisite is that these senior citizens know the fundamentals of computer. Yew Ban, Poh Sze and myself will be speaking in Mandarin. MIND members can drop by for this session but this session is really simple and easy for the senior citizens to understand, so not sure suitable for the elite folks.
The agenda will be as below:
|
Time |
Topics |
| 9.30 a.m. |
Registration |
| 10.00 a.m. |
Introducing Windows Vista in Chinese – Yew Ban and Wen Ching |
| 10.40 a.m. |
Break |
| 10.45 a.m. |
Introduction Microsoft Word 2007 in Chinese – Yew Ban and Wen Ching |
| 11.30 a.m. |
Break |
| 11.35 a.m. |
Using Windows Mobile 6 in Chinese (phones can be used other than just SMS and Phone Calls) – Poh Sze |
| 12.15 p.m. |
The END |
Well I hope both events will run smoothly and it can be teaser to my blog readers of MIND coming initiatives. Thank you.