Brief History - UoPeople ACM Student Chapter

[Ateafac Sylvanus]

Brief History – UoPeople ACM Student Chapter

How time flies? Around May 2014,  UoPeople ACM Student Chapter will be celebrating its first anniversary. Last year In the early month of May 2013, Dr. Dan Taipala, ph.D – associate Dean of Computer Science at UoPeople and Dr. Ariella Zeller, Ph.D – dean of Student Affairs UoPeople,  jointly informed us (CS students) of the creation of a UoPeople ACM Stuent Chapter. Many of us welcomed the idea and many as well showed interest during which a facebook page was created by Dr. Taipala to enable us discuss and plan on developing the chapter.

In the short period that followed, interest died down and one of our fellow members, Joan Advincula created a google group which would later and up to date serve as the main forum for planning and discussing all chapter affairs. In the month of July 2013, chapter officials were appointed based on common initiative thinking. These officials were

-          Joan Advincula – chapter chair

-          Angela Lubianca C. – Secretary / Treasurer

-          John Mboru – Vice chair / External affairs / Head of committee

-          Rafael Victor  - committee member

-          Ateafac S. Forsong – web master

-          Dr.  Dan Taipala – Chapter sponsor

The period that followed was characterized by great enthusiasm and every official executed her/his functions actively. This led to the following developments:

-          An action plan was drafted by the secretary and proposed to the chapter sponsor and he approved the plan. For more details on the plan, a copy of the plan is available and can be found in one of the threads in this forum.

-          The action plan addressed many aspects of the chapter such as by-laws, chapter’s mission, fund raising strategy, activities, etc.

-          A sketch of the chapter website was also drafted by Ateafac based on members’ opinion as a result of a survey conducted in the forum. A copy of the website can also be found in a thread in this forum.

-          By this time, the chapter has registered a total of 11 members and a membership list is also available in this forum under the title “membership list.”

The period that followed after these developments was marked by no activity and right up to present, activities slowed down but the interest is there. We are hoping that the recent awarding of accreditation to our university will spark some renewed interest and the chapter will resume activities in a much more deterministic tone.

So, this is a rundown of the UoPeople ACLM Student chapter milestone.

-          Ateafac S. Forsong

[Joan Advincula]

Nice work, Ateafac.

It just doesn't sound right that it's almost been a year and we haven't properly established ourselves yet.

In any case, I can only hope that we can add something good to that history sooner than later.

Best,
Joan Advincula

UoPeople Student Ambassador
@iamMJae

P.S. By the way, it's "Angela Labianca-Campbell".

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[Ateafac Sylvanus]

Thanks alot Joan,

By the time we celebrate the anniversary, we would be way off better than we are now, I strongly believe and that's an item in the road map to be proposed.

We would surely add more to it in the coming days ahead.

Best,

Ateafac. 

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[fabchris2010]

 HI ACMers,

I very grateful Ateafac and Joan for the work you are doing.I hope to stand more with UoPeople ACM chapter more this term.We may have slowed down but it is always possible to start over and catch up with what may have by-passed you.

I hope more members will volunteer that with not time we can move ahead.

Best regard,
John Mburu.

[Ateafac Sylvanus]

Hi John,

Its so good to be back and nice to see you after a brief moment of inactivity. Like you said, we might have slowed down but we have not stopped.

I'll be putting up some suggestions on what priorities we could set for the group and I agree with you, we need to attract members in some way.

We would be thinking all these within the next couple of exchanges.

Welcome to every ACMer,

Ateafac. 

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[Joan Advincula]

Hi all,

The one sure way to attact members is activity. We've got to show them that we're doing something and then they'll want to come join us. I see people over Facebook looking for something to do and some also expecting something to do. I hope we can show them that.

Best,
Joan Advincula

UoPeople Student Ambassador
@iamMJae

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[Angela Labianca-Campbell]

Hello everyone,

Very briefly.  I am still interested in helping, though my time is tighter than it was previously.  I'll attempt to keep up with reading emails from the group.  If you have actionable items for me to work on, I will focus those.

With respect,

Angela

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[Ateafac S. F]

Hi Angela,

By next week we should be cearly focused on specific matters but for now, we are still planning and I would be contacting Dr Taipala and the student affairs, let everyone know we are active and working. Also to get some fresh ideas.

Untill we get all these going, lets keep the contact active.

Ateafac.

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