Lisa from Microsoft will be presenting at 2 events at UWA on the 27th August.

The first event is for ENGINERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE students and the second is for BUSINESS students.

Meet the Company!

Fulltime and Intern

Software Development

27^th August

5pm

CSSE 1.24

People here love their work because they get to think big and dream big. Right now we’re looking for the next generation of Microsoft innovators. If you have talent and a passion for technology, this could be your big moment. 

Come find out more about our fulltime and internship opportunities technical opportunities in the United States!

Bring your résumé for a chance to win

Tons of great Microsoft

Prizes will be raffled and

FREE FOOD will be provided!

Questions? Contact uwa@student-partners.com.au

Meet the Company!

Fulltime and Intern

Marketing, Sales and Services

IN AUSTRALIA!!!

27^th August

4:00pm

CSSE 1.24

People here love their work because they get to think big and dream big. Right now we’re looking for the next generation of Microsoft innovators. If you have talent and a passion for technology, this could be your big moment. 

Come find out more about our fulltime and internship business opportunities in Australia.

Bring your résumé for a chance to win

Tons of great Microsoft

Prizes will be raffled and

FREE FOOD will be provided!

Questions?  Contact uwa@student-partners.com.au

Just a reminder that the IEEE Networking Forum is coming up on Thursday 30th July 2009.

In this economy, you want to give yourself the maximum exposure to recruiting companies as possible. The IEEE Networking Forum gives you a chance to talk to future employers and also get valuable information.

Students from all four major universities in Perth will be attending.

Head to http://www.ieeenetworkingforum.org for more info.

Question: Do you know what IDE stands for?
Question: Do you know what languages Visual Studio can use?
Question: Do you like free pizza?

If you answered yes to the last question, then this event is for you!

The Curtin MSP’s will be demoing off Visual Studio – showcasing its ability as an IDE and why it has become industry standard.

So, even if you think you already know everything there is to know about Visual Studio and IDE’s, come along anyway – there will be heaps of giveaways and FREE PIZZA.

For more information, either click the poster (left) or visit http://curtinvs.eventbrite.com/

- Daniel
Curtin MSP

[ Are you graduating soon? And don’t know what to expect from your IT career? ]

We can help! 

The Microsoft Students to Business program together with Excom Education

Bring you the opportunity to clarify this and many questions you might have

Just join our Live Meeting session, this Thursday 23th of April at

12 pm Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines

11 am Indonesia

2 pm (EST) Australia

4 pm (NZST) New Zealand

To join just click on the link bellow

Join the meeting

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Choose one of the following:

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· Dial the conferencing service directly, and enter the participant code shown below:
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Malaysia: +12034808000

New Zealand: 0800448997

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Indonesia: +8134574
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FIRST-TIME USERS

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Unable to join the meeting?  Follow these steps:

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            2.         Copy and paste the required information:

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Office Live Meeting can be used to record meetings. By participating in this meeting, you agree that your communications may be monitored or recorded at any time during the meeting.

By attending to this conference you will qualify for a chance to receive a complimentary copy of Microsoft Office Professional 2007. (1 participant will be randomly selected*)

Want to know more about S2B? register today!

Any questions please contact s2bapac@microsoft.com

THIS COMING TUESDAY 7th APRIL, UWA IEEE Student Branch presents:

THE IEEE ICE CREAM SOCIAL

Tuesday 7th April, 12:30pm, EE Courtyard

Calling all CSSE students, bring your friends and come by the EE (Electrical Engineering) Courtyard this Tuesday during common lunch (between 12:30pm and 1:45pm) for a refreshing, ice-cold snack on a hot day – and find out about the benefits of IEEE membership.

There is a selection of *FREE* ice-creams for those who show their

2009 IEEE membership card and with great ice-creams starting at only $1, even non-members can get in on the action!

There has never been a better time to join IEEE – The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – be a part of the world’s largest professional technical society and find out what the Branch can offer you. With the tough economic climate, cool-off and relax with an ice-cream and drink and learn how IEEE membership can give you the edge.

Looking for Grad or Vac work? Put yourself ahead of the rest with IEEE.

Take the opportunity to come down and sign-up or renew your existing membership while enjoying a selection of ice-creams and drinks.

IEEE memberships are now HALF PRICE (just $12.50 USD, and you get membership until 31st Dec 2009), so it is a great time to be a part of

*your* organisation. Get involved in your degree, join the IEEE.

See you there!

Cheers,

Yang-Lit Phay

–

2009 Vice-Chairperson

University of Western Australia IEEE Student Branch http://www.uwaieee.org/ enquiries@uwaieee.org

Winner of the 2007 and 2008 IEEE Australia Council Most Outstanding Student Branch Award Winner of the 2008 IEEE Asia Pacific Most Outstanding Student Branch Award

Want to be a part of the award winning UWA IEEE Student Branch Committee? See us today!

The CSSC E-mail out is copied below:

Hello to all the club members out there!

There are times when getting together with your fellow intellectuals
and enjoy some mindless FPS action.

With that in mind the CSSC has grouped up with our UWA Microsoft
student partners and organised what is planned to be the first in a
monthly Halo Tournament.

So here’s what you need to know:

When : Tuesday the 31st of March, 6pm – 9pm 

Where : 1.24 seminar room (the seminar room outside administration on
the first floor…of csse)

What else? : the Halo tournament will run like this, there will teams
of two (either find a friend or be randomly assigned) with a round
robin style set up. No sign up is required, and we will be doing a
pizza run at some point.

It’d be great to see you all there, so get ready for killing some
aliens.

Luke
Aussie MSP Lead
The University of Western Australia

It’s free, so register for the event today.

Details below:

Registration for our next Live Meeting on Windows 7 is ready.

Language(s):  English. 
Product(s):  Other,Security. 
Audience(s):  IT Manager,IT Professional.  
Duration:  75 Minutes 

Start Date:  Friday, 3 April 2009 11:00 AM Australia (East) 

Event Overview 
Windows 7 has many features for the consumer, developer and IT Pro.  But what about Security?  In this session we’ll talk about and show some of the important security features that are coming as part of Windows 7.  These include Applocker™, Bitlocker™ and Bitlocker To Go™, DirectAcess™, User Account Control and the security changes to Internet Explorer 8.  There will be demo’s on all these technologies so you can see firsthand how Windows 7 security has been improved!

Speaker – Jeff Alexander, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft
Jeff Alexander is a IT Pro Evangelist for Microsoft and travels across Australia speaking to customers and partners about the latest technologies.  Jeff can be seen speaking at Security events, TechEd and other recognised Industry Tech events.  Jeff started as employee number 27 at Microsoft Australia and has been with the company for 21 years.  Jeff’s blog is http://blogs.technet.com/jeffa36
Twitter Hashtag #win7live
Click here to Register for the Live Meeting Event
If you have any questions prior to the event that you would like us to address please Twitter it with the hashtag #win7live

We were treated to two awesome days of presentations, workshops, gaming, food, prizes and plenty of free stuff.

Day 1 kicked off with some intros to awesome programs available to students such as DreamSpark, Imagine Cup, Students 2 Business, Microsoft Student Partners, MSDN-AA, Student Tech Clubs, Channel8 and more. Microsoft provided lunch with a chance to checkout some cool technologies in the cafeteria. The afternoon continued with presentations from Microsoft staff on Microsoft programs such as It’s Not Piracy, Microsoft Learning, MSPress, IT Academy, Imagine Cup and technologies such as Windows Live and Windows Mobile.

After a big first day, we all jumped into the bus and headed to the Great Northern Hotel for dinner and drinks.

Around 9pm we made it back to Microsoft Australia and went straight to the Xbox room. We were lucky to be able to play Halo Wars before its release along with other great games. Gears of War 2, Call of Duty and Forza seemed popular!

At the end of the night the MSPs were shocked to hear they would all be given Xbox 360s along with 4 games and an extra controller! Microsoft has gone out of their way to ensure when MSPs share their love of technology with the community, they can actually share it!

After a quick refresh on the previous days content, Day 2 started with a presentation from GP on where MSPs fit into the big picture at Microsoft. Michael Kordahi followed with an awesome presentation on the future of technology. Andrew Coates demonstrated Live Meeting and Nick Hodge presented on Microsoft’s Open Source program. Lunch was provided by the guys from Atomic Magazine who asked us to give away their magazines at our events… awesome for students all-round!

But one of the highlights for me, was each MSP getting up to present a 5 minute demo on stuff they are passionate about.

Of course there were prizes throughout the event, for the best questions and the most involvement from MSPs.

After  2 full days, MSPs headed back to their homes, Xbox under one arm, and various other loot under the other and heads full of ideas on how they can share their passion, excitement and love of technology with their fellow students.

In fact, some already have, such as Sean’s O-Week Presentation along with his post on new stuff added to DreamSpark.

All Aussie MSPs are fired up and equipped, so join us for an awesome 2009!

Luke
Aussie MSP Lead
The University of Western Australia

MSPs from over Australia are here for the event to get the resources to help students to reach their potential over 2009.

Luke
Australian MSP Lead

We’ll be holding 2v2v2v2 games (i.e 4 teams of 2 per round) in a frag count shootout afterwhich the leaders will progress to an elimination ladder. There’ll be a slew of prizes and giveaways on the day, not just for the winners but also for random criteria (such as most frags in a single game etc).

When? November 4th
Where? CSSE 1.24
Team? Bring your buddy along on the day, otherwise, randomly assigned by our robotic overlord

Signup: http://events.wamsp.com.au/halo

See you there!

The event was opened by Luke who stepped everyone through a number of videos highlighting the Power of students. Luke also discussed Dreamspark which has finally landed Down Under and Imagine Cup ‘09. Who knows? Maybe this year we’ll finally see a UWA team!

David then stepped in with “Gaming your way onto Facebook” – an awesome demo which stepped through the creation of a Popfly shoot-em-up which was then published, with leaderboard, to Facebook.

Next we ran a quick session about the MS Internship process. UWA has 3 interns going this year, the second highest from any university (apart from UQ), beating out universities like UNSW and USyd and decimating Victoria (none!). Great news for anyone at UWA who may have thought that being too far over West was a disadvantage.

I then followed up with a quick overview some online services being offered by Microsoft – Deep Zoom, Photosynth and Live Mesh, if you haven’t checked them out – do so! Don’t forget to sign up for the UWA Live Mesh Comp as well and beat out the other unis (including our blog brothers from Curtin)…

From there we moved to on to the IEEE supported free BBQ for participants where we handed out a boat load of swag and prizes to some happy recipients.

We’re always interested in feedback – so leave us a message (or two) with what you thought.

See you at our next event!

Luke
UWA MSP
http://twitter.com/ekulmi

The Student Daze MSP Summit 08 is the first of what will be an annual event to bring together the top MSPs at the Microsoft HQ in Remond, WA. MSPs from each of the 13 regions meet for 2 intense days to help shape the MSP program for the year to come. Up to 4 MSPs from each region are flown to Redmond to make a group of around 50 MSPs.

Day 0

I flew from Perth and met Edmund (Sydney Uni MSP) and Andrew (Australian ADE) in Sydney going onto to San Francisco and then Seattle. The flight was especially long for me coming from Perth, but the Qantas service was good and we arrived safe and sound.

We have been put up in The Westin Bellevue which is across the road from the Microsoft Bellevue office and a couple of minutes away from the main Redmond campus.

Across the road from MS

Luke & Ed at Dinner on Day 0

Day 1

Everyone met bright and early in the hotel lobby. We were taken to the main campus where we were served a hot breakfast of scrambled eggs, potato cubes, sausages, bacon and fruit along with coffee of course. We all got given forms to sign, little bags full of goodies, access to the Microsoft Guest internet access and passes.

mm coffee

First up was Sam Gazitt who did a presentation on Popfly. Most of the MSPs were pretty up-to-date on Popfly so brushed over some of his presentation and showed us some cool demos.

Sam showing off Popfly

Blogging @ MSFT

Australian Frank Arrigo headed up a panel of bloggers including Jeff Sandquist, Major Nelson, Twitter Maven. It was excellent to hear from these guys about what blogging means in this age and to a company like Microsoft. We heard a bit of policy stuff on Microsoft blogging, which allows their employees to blog and voice their opinions quite freely. Twitter came up and it was decided it was also just as important as traditional blogging. Jeff seemed to really like FriendFeed.

The blogging Panel

Open Source Software at Microsoft

A whole session on open source at Microsoft. Karri tooks us through a whole bunch of stuff as to what projects Microsoft are involved in and a bit about the Open Source Lab (an actual physical lab) at Microsoft dedicated to improving interop. Craig Wicks, a member of the OSS team was super interesting, as he gave his take on what it is like to actually work on open source at Microsoft on the IronRuby team.

Lunch

We were all given $14 each to spend at the Microsoft Cafe in the next building. Edmund and I shared a salad as I think our stomachs were still on Australian time. There was heaps to choose from though.

Live Mesh

One of my personal favourite sessions of the Summit. Jeff Hansen from the Live Mesh team came to talk to us about all the cool things happening in Mesh and Cloud Computing. Some of the stuff is under NDA but what I can say is that PDC will be huge! Lots of stuff happening.

XNA Community Games

Dave Mitchell from the Xbox team came and talked about XNA Game Studio and the Xbox Live Community Games program. We got a sneak preview at the new Xbox UI (which is very cool) and some avatars. He talked about developing community games and how they are published through the Live Community Games program.

Company Store

All session’d out, we got out of the room and went to visit the Microsoft company store. We each got given $80 to spend at the company store! How generous Leandro, thanks!

put to good useThe MS ECompanyStore

House of the Future

We took the MS Shuttle to the house of the future. Very very very cool. We visited the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center and got a tour around the House of the Future. Unfortunately we weren’t allowed to take pictures. Basically there were lots and lots of displays and lots and lots of RFID

free candy in the MS shuttles

Party and Xbox 360 comp

Pizza, beer, lots of Xbox’s, Rockband… a big party at the MS office in Bellevue. All the MSPs, speakers and some of the Xbox dev team were there.

Day 2

Joe Wilson

Joe Wilson is the Worldwide Director for DPE at Microsoft. He came and had a casual chat with us about the big picture and how MSPs and Microsoft fit into it.

Scott Guthrie’s Keynote

The highlight for most MSPs of the event, Scott Guthrie who also won the best presenter for the event, picked some topics directly from us and talked on them. Silverlight, cloud computing and WPF were some of the topics talked about, as well as some upcoming stuff that we can’t blog about…

MSPs with Scott

MSP Discussion

We had a discussion with Jen about the MSP program, what we liked and what we wanted improved as a kind of precursor to the workshop after lunch on shaping the program for the upcoming year.

Lunch

Lunch was with more lunch vouchers at another Microsoft Cafe.

Having lunch

Workshop

We did a lighting session to get ideas to improve the MSP program. We then ranked them and split into 3 groups to work on the top 3. Each group looked at the problem, worked on a solution and had to do a presentation at the end.

coming up with ideas

Astoria 2 / SQL

Pablo Castro gave a talk on Astoria. It was very cool as it is also related to some of the Live Mesh technologies. Basically Astoria allows you to interact with data using traditional HTTP POSTs and GETs.

Cloud Computing

David Lemphers, also an aussie talked about cloud computing from the infrastructure point of view. He basically went through how to build a cloud computing service from the data centre up. It was amazing looking at what actually goes into providing a cloud computing service.

Jobs at Microsoft

Carrie Read, who I’ve met personally quite a few times and who is such a great person did a presentation on Jobs at Microsoft and internships.

Andre Furtado

Andre is an Ex-MSP, a serial finalist in the Imagine Cup and now a Microsoft employee in Redmond. He talked about his experiences from being involved with the MSP program, Imagine Cup and gave us some tips for working at Microsoft.

Party at Lucky Strike

The private bar and bowling alley at Lucky Strike in Bellevue was hired out for our closing party. We had dinner and drinks, bowling and lots of Rockband on the big screen.

Edmund with the girls

Playing Rockband

Summary

Student Daze was an awesome experience, meeting MSPs from all over the world, and helping to shape the future of the program. We had tons of fun, and if you are an MSP, it’s definately something you should work towards achieving.

Luke
UWA MSP

Simply sign up for Live Mesh through our gateway and go into the draw to win a stack of prizes.

You can even increase your chances by adding your own content to our Mesh.

For more details and to sign up CLICK HERE.

We’ll elaborate a little more on the program and plan closer to the date, but for now – head over to imagine.wamsp.com.au and sign up so that you don’t lose your spot!

Don’t forget to tell / bring your friends!

For those who somehow missed the posters plastered around uni…

After playing with the touch capabilities, you could be treated to an in-chair professional massage while a demonstration of it’s ability to read the event passes and pull down information from CommNet was shown.

Basically, on the back of the passes was a small pattern of white dots. They hold about 2 bytes of data. In this case they had encoded the delegate ID. Placing the pass on the surface would then allow the device to immediately connect to CommNet and pull down the particular delegate’s personal schedule for Tech.Ed.

Luke
UWA MSP 

Microsoft have had a very good relationship with Novell over their SUSE offering (although a quick search will show you that both companies have suffered a lot of online negative rap about these deals) although I’m still impressed that they would show it in a demo.

But I was blown up when Tux made a showing!

          

(and yeah, the photos are blurred – sorry )

• The Keynote started with a general TechEd collaboration video that emphasised MSDN and TechNet as community oriented sites
• Afterwords there were quick words from Tracy Fellows head of Microsoft in Australia, intKeyroducing the keynote speaker
• The Keynote speaker was Amit Mital lead (and one of the founders) of the Live Mesh team. He showed a video that emphasised connectivity between al devices (think tv, mobile, house (alarms, door locks), computers) via the cloud. So much so, that when a laptop gets destroyed in the movie the main actor gets a different machine and loads it up with his info and gets his own desktop back.
• Dr. Niel got up and demoed two instances of software + Services (the current mantra from Microsoft, emphasising a move to the cloud). He also “let slip” and showed off Live Mesh on his mobile (this was live, not recorded), by syncing photos between his mobile and laptop.

Photo Goodness:

Stay tuned for more!

If you are a student and haven’t already registered, go to this page and register for FREE today.

The Student Day will be comprised of two sessions and includes the launch of Dreamspark in Australia, the Microsoft program giving students free Microsoft software such as Visual Studio 2008 Professional.

WA MSPs Luke and Oren will both be at Tech.Ed so we hope to see you there!

Luke
UWA MSP 

As usual there’ll be heaps of free giveaways and aawesome prizes to pick up – so make sure to stay tuned for more details!

Got suggestions? Questions? Anything else? Feel free to leave a comment below…