Ideas'05 CSI National Convention

iDeas’05 was annual CSI Students National Convention where I was part of the organizing team. The event was a success and its memories are something I would love to cherish for years to come.

Logged here are some mail conversations in our group present here as archives - don’t want to loose them ever ;)

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Ideas'05 CSI National Convention

I am just going to speak of the good things that I noticed (its not that I don’t know what went wrong, everyone would have his own opinion but I will leave it for the next convention team) …and sorry if I miss to mention some of the good things.

Let me start by saying that it was the most enjoyable experience on the whole. As all were leaving Kornark (hpe I get the speelings right:-) I had a lump in the throat lik the one I had while seeing Black. Probably I had the feeling of missing all of you …and more so I was waiting there and was seeing others leave one by one.

I must say we worked hard …ya really hard in our own sense. I am sure everyone of us have sacrificed a lot to be here and also shuffled our priorities. I missed many of the meetings for the convention which were held at the chapter office and also the sandwhiches (or biscuits watever that was served). But now I feel I should have attended some more because I missed the opportunity of being with you all.

Let me try and desc the committies in one liners and their keywords (consider it as my personal opinion and not of everyones if you find it offensive :-) :

Technical - ”truly Online exisistence”
Considering we were in the technical team we made it a point to be connected online. Also one more thing that I would like to point out is that according to me we (4 of us because I would consider Patrick to also be one of us) worked very well together unknowingly dividing our work equally. Also Nikita’s sincerity surprised me because before I was not sure how in depth she would contribute (to be fair this opinion was formed from what I saw in my college and was totally biased). She not only proved me wrong but changed my outlook for this lifetime.

Sponsorship - ”Website par Hiranandani upar hona chaiye tha aur Microsoft neeche”
Sponsorhip team had all the BigTime members. Do I need to list them? The only drawback of me doing the spons. brochure was that because of me our account went into negative even before sposorship money started comming in. I also remember Pinto sir telling me that “if we are expecting 5 lacs then never mind if the brochure printing cost is more. Go ahead”

Publicity and Registration - ”everything of theirs depended on other committees and thus they had to postpone most of their plans”
It had the max number of members. One standout thing about the registration team was that during the first day we had all of the SFITians (which had 100+ registrations) comming up early,then registering for GNU/Linux wrkshop which had a max of 60 seats… thnks for this to Prajakta, Patrick, Siddesh & Tarun and others fron their college. It was sad that only SFIT was attending the GNU/Linux wrkshop. …but guys I don’t have any grudge against anyone whatsoever because after the 61 entries
(…61 because after 59, 2 people had registerd simultaneosuly… fuuny na but this is a fact) I managed to get in 4 DBITians (100% of the DBITians who had come on the first day) in somehow with the help of Tech Team batch and Tarun who was at the door.

Magazine - ”hardwork”
Feels great to know that they had pulld up this mag in just 5 days without much help from others who could have submitted articles. I must say even the ISRO director was impressed after looking at it.

IC&OC - ”ICOC is everywhere”
They were the people who performed well finally. I was especially impressed by the hardwork put in by each one of them. They were the ones who won the hearts of everyone. 3 cheers for them!

Program - ”They got it all together”
A lot of work was put in by the PC team. I felt He-manshu lead them well. Though many felt that he was doing a lot of ‘natak and chilamchalli’ but on the convention days I am sure he was the one on whom the spotlight was. They didnt let us down. I also felt they were most well organized.

Few one-liners I can recollect:

“You should get in Mahesh Murthy …” — Patrick (longtime bcak …and everyone liked it again)

“I will need 50k for robotics” — Anurag (robotics event head) as tld to Bhavik at chapter office

“SNDT is a university… and UMIT is our college name…” –UMITian

“Your team can’t be contacted… we sud gift Akshay a mobile” — Nirupama */*/05 (she tld this to Nikita . I feel it was such a noble thought)

“Haan… haan main aa raha hoon abhi thodi der main pahunchta hoon…” — Digant 3/3/05

“I hope something magical happens” — Manisha 3/3/05 (comenting on the low registration from TSEC)

“Ravish Singh… (and something more without sayin sir or anythig else with it)” — Pradnya 3/3/05 (for which she had to hear some firing from him)

“Aunty…!” — Vicky throughout the conv (I am sure you know who he was adressing)

“Hey tu free hai kya… .. okie yeh kaam kar …” — Bhavik/Pratik (from what I have come to know… from others… though I must say both of them are sporting enough… which I have appreciate)

“Padtalidictory …… (ceremony in which Bhavik and Pratik got targeted)” — Aseem,Praful,Vicky 3/3/05

“Hey! yeh toh English paper hai …” — Akshay (to Nikita when she was piking up TOI at TIFR since we had to pass sometime)

“I am from SNDT college .. UMIT” — Nikita 5/3/05 (believe me guys she said it to that ISRO Director. I heard it clearly and she said this in hurry but she may not accept it now because she may be court martialed or sued… lol quite a possibility)

“I am the only one from the tech team… Akshay has only come for his events (WebD, Programming and Paper Presentation)” — Nikita 5/3/05 (Couldnt hlp it… it was the reason I was in the tech team. Cudnt have ignored participating in the events)

“Akshay… akshay… ..” — Vicky 5/3/05 and then the whole aseembly hall (when DBIT won the Best participating college award… was a good gesture)

“Bosco Bosco Bosco Don Bosco… ..” — DBIT studs (The trophy is important for us only for the reason that we can show this to our principal and somehow make sure that we get attendance for all these days… and also attendance for the next convention beforehand)

” … Red Bull …” — Priya/Barkha 5/3/05 (still don’t kne what it was but ..ya it continued for a long time)

“John the baptist… ..” — Ravi Miranda 5/3/05 (plz save us from these PJs …)

“He is a dudu boy” — Priya 5/3/05 (whn I said I drink just milk)

“Ismain cheez kam hai… .. vapis lake do !” — Barkha 5/3/05 (on having less cheese on the top of pav bhaaji)

“Yeh hamare Mahila Morcha ka adyhakash hai” — Voiced by Varsha and seconded by Jalpa,Barkha and Priya finally accepted unanimously.

“Ismain kanda nahin hai ..Jain hai kya” — Barkha 5/3/05 (after having one spoon of pav bhaji.. lol) … “chal vapis karte hain …” — Priya (seconded Barkha’s discovery)”

“M^1n 13 ba6ky m^^` b&ew^^L! h00n” — Varsha 5/3/05 (I am sure no one missed this from Varsha, the pitch was so high that no one would have even if he had coverd his ears)… I didnt write this because I fear for my life… and would surely not dare to include this on the website . ;-) .

“Yeh sunne ke pehle mere kaan kyun nahin phat gaye” — Akshay 5/3/05 (on hearing Varsha’s cry)

“Dont do it .. not on the website … I will kill you” — Varsha 5/3/05 (I wont …and I havent … and will never think of doing it . kyunki mujhe meri jaan pyaari hai)

In all it was a memorable experience and thnks to Ravi sir for the dinner at the end of the convention which was much needed. Hope to find some more by comming to a post-convention meet whereever it is. Looking foward to see you all there and treasuring all the hectic, stressful, busy, funny, touching, stupid moment with you all.

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Hey eVeRyOnE,

“HAPPY HOLI”

Holi is a festival of COLOR (and I don’t mean 1280×1024 with 32bit resolution)

Its when we go all out and just EnJoy wid color. I we All celebrate this festival in its true spirit.

Even I tried to play wid some color and to add that Xtra splash of it to you and ur memories.

I hope our memories keep getting that color supplement so WE aLL treasure the moments we spent together.

Just waiting to capture some more… !