Hey everyone! Come on over to the undergrad lounge for the first LAN party tomorrow, February 10. We’ll be playing TF2 and maybe some other games. We’ll be starting around 6:30.

ADTRAN will be on campus Monday, February 13^th to hold a lecture on the agile methodology engineers have deployed in certain areas within the company.  Their “Agile Effect” lecture is at 5:30 p.m. at SEC 3437.  Here is a link to the building map.  The concept is to educate students more about agile development and how it can benefit a development cycle.  They are encouraging any students with an interest and passion for software development to stop by at any time.  Refreshments will be provided.

ADTRAN also has several co-op, intern, and entry level openings.  You can find out more about their career opportunities at the event or by applying to any of their postings through Crimson Careers or the Co-op Office. Make sure to sign up quickly, as interviews will be held the day after the career fair.

If you’re interested in what kinds of events ACM Southeast might have, you can check out proceedings from previous years here. And here is a list of sessions from 2011.

If you’re interested in game development, Kami-Con staff are looking for someone to develop their game. We mentioned it at our last meeting, but for more information you should contact Raymond Lenzner at KamiConStaff@kamicon.net.

The University uses a service called orgsync to keep in touch with it’s student organizations on campus. If you request to join ACM’s page, it could help our chapter receive more funding from the University. You can sign in with your MyBama credentials with the link below.

https://orgsync.com/join/28018/university-of-alabama-student-chapter-of-the-association-for-computing-machinery

Fedex will be presenting to ACM on Feb 7th at 5:15.  They have several internships and jobs open and are particularly interested in CS students.  Do not miss this opportunity to prepare yourself for an onsite interview (Feb 16).

FedEx provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services. They offer integrated business applications through operating companies competing collectively and managed collaboratively, under the respected FedEx brand. Consistently ranked among the world’s most admired and trusted employers, FedEx inspires its more than 275,000 employees and contractors to remain absolutely, positively focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of their customers and communities.

Our next chapter meeting will be Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 5:15pm in SEC 3437.

We will be discussing chapter events, like recaping the Microsoft AppLab workshop last Tuesday, looking forward to an upcoming LAN party, and more. We will also be looking for volunteers to run a Science Olympiad competition next month that the College of Engineering is hosting for area high schools and middle schools.

There will be a brief Tech Talk on an exciting topic in computing and, as always, there will be pizza and drink after the meeting.

Important: The Treasurer and Membership Committee will be collecting $5 dues from all members during the meeting. Please don’t forget to bring the amount, preferably in exact change.

We hope to see every one there!

Minutes

http://blogs.msdn.com/tarawalker

Also, link to the Windows Phone Twitter App Demo code:

http://bit.ly/w9jox2

Committee forums have been added to the forums. They are meant to discuss and plan for any club issues in the event the committee can’t physically meet or if you need to bring something else to that committee’s attention. The intention is for at least one person from each committee to serve as the moderator to each forum.

I encourage all the committee members to head on over to the forums and introduce yourselves. If there are any volunteers for moderators, just contact me.

Students can win money and prizes by submitting Windows Phone apps.  See below for details.

Windows Phone Student Contests

Register at http://microsoftatunivofalwinphoneapplab.eventbrite.com/

You will learn how to get started on that next great app for the Phone using Silverlight and XNA.   

This is your chance to design and implement that cool new app you’ve been dreaming about, or put the finishing touches on your masterpiece, so bring your idea for a Mobile App and get ready to code.   

As you are designing, writing & testing your apps onsite, there will be guidanceMicrosoft professionals to help you get things right.

Use your newly developed skills to compete in the

Windows Phone App Dev Contest – Big Apps On Campus

and win big prizes like a trip to SXSW and/or $15,000.

Students will need to bring laptops running Windows or a Mac running dual boot Windows partition (no VM)

January 24th: 5:30 pm – 9:00pm

University of Alabama

Food & Prizes will be provided