Ok, gw sedikit kaget dengan ini... krn ternyata perusahaan ini, Octazen, sudah dapat beberapa client dari USA...and I mean big clients.
Jadi udah terkenal di USA, tapi kurang terkenal di Indonesia.
Bahkan di website bagian About Us dan Contact sama sekali tidak mention located in Indonesia.
Satu lagi, ga nyangka bikin screen-scraping software bisa jadi kaya :)
So you must have known that I have resigned from my position as Academic Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Indonesia. The next question is then where am I heading next? Microsoft Asia Pacific, Singapore? Microsoft Corporation, USA?
My last effective date is July 31, 2008. But I'm taking my leave from July 25, 2008. So, if you want to discuss about Microsoft's academic programs (MIC, DreamSpark, etc.), I suggest you wait until my replacement takes over in August. I've heard that my replacement is from the Indonesian .NET Developers Community too, so he's not a new face.
From July 25-31, I still have my @microsoft.com email, but since I'll be in holiday with my family, response will be very slow (or in worst case: no response). Non-Microsoft related emails, please redirect to my zeddy[AT]live.com email.
Where am I going next? I've decided to learn from the real-world and start my own company. This may sound crazy... 3 years at Microsoft Indonesia, winning the Imagine Cup, the ripple effect following it: Kompas first page, MetroTV e-LifeStyle, audience with Rachmat Witoelar, Ministry of Environment (hopefully after that, SBY)... and you want to leave?
To which I reply:
Now that I'm at the top of the mountain, I see another mountain to climb on. With a hiking rope as long and as strong as my network of friends, and a backpack full of "Microsoft experience", I am excited to start my own journey to climb that mountain.
In 4 days time, you will hear about my company and our first product. ISVs, I don't think I'll be a competition. I'm not building yet another accounting application, or providing customs solution. My first product will be built using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).
Now that I'm no more at Microsoft, I wish to join the multi-talented ranks of Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs).
I have 2 closing remarks:
- I think as long as you follow your passion, you will succeed in life. Doesn't really matter where you work, isn't it?
- This is a cool quote from a recent movie ending (hint: the hero can curve bullets), "I'm taking control of my life. What the f*** have YOU done lately?"
Hari ini baru selesai nganterin Tim Antarmuka dari ITB ke MetroTV di Kebon Jeruk. Wuih, ini keduanya masuk studio TV, yg pertama di ANTV dan nggak terlalu besar. Tapi di MetroTV guede banget dan ada lounge nya yg kayak lounge hotel.
Dimas dan Ella mewakili dari Tim Antarmuka (krn slot-nya cuman 20 menit) dan on-air hari Minggu ini, jam 09.05 - 09.30. Siaran ulangnya kalo nggak salah Senin dini hari jam 01.00.
Sempet ngeri juga karena agak telat, dikarenakan malam sebelumnya kita makan2 steak & ribs super-gede di Sizzler Citraland. Walhasil gw bangunnya kesiangan, anak2 sarapannya telat, dan kita sempet nyasar2 nyari alamat MetroTV...hihi.
Berikut foto2 di MetroTV Lobby 1:
Lounge yg enak...
Oh, ternyata green screen toh...
Mba Andini, sang presenter yg tinggi & cantik...
Beginilah hasil composite dari green screen....
So I was reading about 2008 R&D 100 Awards for Technology Advances and noticed that Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory won 4 R&D awards from the 100. The awards are called "The Oscars of Invention" by The Chicago Tribune.
So here's 1 of the 4 Berkeley innovation that's interesting:
Biomimetic Search Engine
The Biomimetic Search Engine is the only search engine that couples the way people learn with the unmatched speed and data storage capabilities of computers. In doing so, it is revolutionizing how digital content is searched and utilized. Users can search huge databases and determine how objects are related, in what contexts they are related, and the strengths of those relationships. It was developed by Kasian Franks and Connie Myers, formerly of Berkeley Lab’s Life Sciences Division, and Raf Podowski. Both Franks and Podowski are now with the Emeryville, CA-based start-up company SeeqPod. A music search engine using the Biomimetic Search Engine can be found at www.seeqpod.com.
The Biomimetic Search Engine goes far beyond simply sifting through data for keywords. Instead, the system allows users to make previously unknown connections between seemingly unrelated terms. In this way, it helps to synthesize new information and further a person’s understanding of a given topic, which is the hallmark of discovery, innovation, and invention. The Biomimetic Search Engine is already revolutionizing how genomics data, the internet’s playable music and video files, and Wikipedia’s ever-growing content are searched and utilized. It is also poised to make inroads into the finance, sports, and health sectors.
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So I went to www.seeqpod.com to check it out. Cools, if I search for Paris Hilton, I will get a playlist of all Paris Hilton songs... and I can listen to it right away using the Flash-based player. Cools
Bos Risman has mentioned creating PHP extensions in Windows for PHP4Live (Live extensions for PHP). I'm gonna build a .so equivalent in the *Nix world in this post:
- I'm part of the PHP4Live team, so when this project hits the first gear, you'll also be hearing from me.
- We all know that PHP is running more on *Nix machines than Windows, so I'll make sure for every .DLL's Pak Risman producing, I will build the equivalent .so too.
- I'll give you a shorter tutorial on creating PHP Extension on Mac OS X. Why Mac? Long time ago before I joined MS, one of my developer idol was Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of FreeBSD, now working for Apple. He was so inspiring 'cos he only graduated from high school. Makes you think whether you really need a Computer Science degree to understand kernel stuff (oh, wait a minute, on the contrary, do Computer Science students nowadays understand kernel stuff?). That guy sparked my interest in FreeBSD 4.0 back then. Now that FreeBSD has been forked into Darwin and added with a finger-licking good GUI to become the Mac OS X, I'm sticking with this OS as my main machine.
So here are the steps into building .so for PHP extension on Mac OS X:
- Download and install MAMP.
- Download the skeleton code of Hello World PHP Extension.
- Extract the skeleton to ~/helloext.
- Open Terminal, "cd ~/helloext" , and then type these 4 commands inside the helloext folder:
- phpize
- ./configure -enable-hello
- make
- cp modules/hello.so /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20050922/
- Edit your php.ini:
- vi /Applications/MAMP/conf/php5/php.ini
- Press Ctrl-F to scroll down until you see "; Extensions".
- Press i to switch to Insert Mode, then type extension=hello.so
- Press Esc to go back to command-mode, and type :wq (write & quit)
- From Finder, open widget MAMP in folder Applications.
Click the phpinfo button from the menu to check whether our hello.so is registered or not.
Now, write this PHP page:
Save it to /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/hello/hello.php
Browse to http://localhost:8888/hello/hello.php
Sweet, it works :)
Tiap acara Microsoft pasti ada goodies-nya kan? Nah, tapi enaknya jalan2 ke luar negeri itu bisa beli barang yg di Indo mahal atau susah atau nggak ada sama sekali...
Berikut barang2 yg dibeli secara online dan di-deliver ke hotel:
Memory 4GB buat MacBook Pro 15" ku. Tadinya mau beli merk Corsair, tapi nggak punya toko online di Eropa dia... akhirnya beli lewat Crucial aja. Lagian bedanya juga tipis, Corsair 4CL, Crucial 5CL. Harganya juga lebih murah... dibawah Euro 100. Can't wait to get home and plug this baby onto my MacBook Pro...
Selain itu, kalo ke Amerika dan Eropa, wajib ngecek Amazon.com atau Amazon.co.uk. Buku yg nggak ada di Kinokuniya, mending beli di Amazon aja deh... buku2 yg aku beli kali ini adalah:
Cerita bagaimana seorang eksekutif di Microsoft mengorbankan pekerjaan-nya untuk mencoba mengubah masa depan anak2 di negara tertinggal dengan mengajarkan literatur. Ternyata pengalaman bisnis yg diserap selama di Microsoft dapat secara efektif diterapkan di perusahaan non-profit nya... interesting read, I say!
Gw tertarik ama Garr Reynolds semenjak dia melakukan perbandingan antara presentasi Bill Gates & Steve Ballmer. Kalo masalah presentasi dan coolness, emang gw lebih prefer Steve Jobs dibanding om Bill G. Memang ada improvement Powerpoint ketika om Bill melakukan Presidential Lecture di JCC kemarin, tapi tetap pioneer-nya om Steve Jobs.
Garr juga sempat ngomong ttg presentation style di Google. Jadi nih orang kayaknya mantap buat didengerin...
Ini sih karena buku ini di-rekomendasiin ama om Garr... lumayan buat nyari inspirasi bikin ppt.. eh I mean Keynote (goodbye Powerpoint soon).
Dan berikut barang2 yg dapet gratis:
Kaos Imagine Cup dan Rural Innovation dari QuickSilver...
Stiker biasa dan stiker laptop Imagine Cup...
Electronic guide buat kereta bawah tanah (tapi pake Bhs Perancis bo) dan tempat kartu Student-2-Business...
Lumayan, flash disk 1GB Channel8 tapi berbentuk kartu tipis (2 buah)...
And finally (drum-roll please... dung dung dung).. a Black Zune to complement my wife's Red Zune... alright!
Uhmm, kayaknya mau jual Zune 4GB gw ini buat beli iPhone 3G aja deh... hari ini soalnya gw liat peserta Imagine Cup dari USA demo mobile app nya bukan .NET Compact Framework di Windows Mobile, tapi iPhone SDK di iPhone... tampilannya gila keren bo... jadi kepengen beli satu iPhone hehe.
Zune 4GB Black ini list price-nya US$ 149, dan iPhone baru 8GB list price-nya US$ 199... so, siapa penawar paling tinggi Zune hitam gw? Silakan taruh di comment...
Alhamdulillah, Indonesia Juara 1 Rural Innovation Award di Imagine Cup 2008. Hadiahnya?
- Cash prize US$ 10,000
- Magang di Microsoft Research Bangalore, India selama 4 bulan bersama Kentaro Toyama di Summer 2009 tahun depan.
Tim Indonesia diwakili oleh anak2 ITB dari Informatika (Arief Widhiyasa, Ella Mustika, Dimas Danurwenda) dan Desain Seni Rupa (Erga Ghaniya).
Hadiah diberikan oleh Anoop Gupta, Corporate Vice President, Unlimited Potential Group. Berikut fotonya....
Sementara itu, Dimaz yg mewakili Australia (tapi masih warga negara Indonesia) juga menang Juara 1 Software Design... yeah, Indonesian programmers rule!!!
Tentunya, jangan lupa bersyukur kepada Yang Maha Kuasa...
Tim Indonesia hari ini presentasi untuk Rural Innovation Award di Imagine Cup 2008. Salah satu jurinya adalah Paul Polak, penulis buku Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail. Sebelum presentasi, mereka difoto ama Kakek Paul dan dikasih buku-nya dia yg sudah ditandatangani khusus... wohoo!
Presentasi untuk Rural menurut saya adalah presentasi terbaik mereka.... it's true that practice makes perfect :)
Setelah itu kita ke Le Louvre lagi untuk melihat presentasi Top 6 Embedded, Top 3 Game Development, dan Top 6 Software Design...
Tim Australia selalu membawa kangaroo keberuntungannya... hehehe.
Sekitar jam 19.00 balik lagi ke Novotel untuk makan malam international menu... akhirnya ada nasi kebuli dan kambing! Yayy, hasrat terpendam selama 5 hari mencari nasi tercapai juga puncaknya pada malam ini...
Abis kenyang makan, iseng2 liat booth-nya Dassault Systemes, maklum lagi into 3D and Game Development.. mereka baru launching 3DVia , dan nunjukin tools yg cukup sophisticated buat bikin game Xbox 360 dan PS3... coding-nya pake C++, interface-nya gile benerr deh.
Nah, mba yg cantik ini salah satu programmer di Dassault Systemes...
Ahh, hari ke-4 adalah hari istirahat. Kita jalan kaki dari hotel ke Metro (kereta bawah tanah) menuju ke Le Louvre, museum dan simbol nasional terkenal Perancis.
Setelah dari Louvre, kita jalan2 ke Rue de Temple buat beli oleh2 langsung dari importir-nya yg orang China... kekeke, di sekitar Eiffel gantungan kunci Euro 1, di toko China ini Euro 20 dah dapet 100 gantungan kunci :)
Malamnya kita naik yacht buat Cruise Dinner, makan malam di atas kapal laut sambil menikmati pemandangan kota Paris dan matahari terbenam...
Ini dia... lokasi shooting Da Vinci Code
Zeddy & Mona Lisa... ternyata kecil bo' lukisannya, mana ngantri lagi.
Kapal Pesiar sedang bersandar menunggu orang-orang penting masuk...
Orang penting mau masuk...
Matahari terbenam dengan indahnya...
Day 3 sama dengan Day 2, namun Presentasi ini menentukan kita masuk Top 12 atau tidak...
Ternyata Indonesia tidak masuk Top 12 untuk Software Design :(
Dan untuk menghapus kesedihan, kita jalan2 ke Eiffel:
Yg Top 12 presentasi lagi malam-malam... dan Minggu paginya diumumin siapa aja yg masuk Software Design Top 6:
Australia – SOAK (Smart Operational Agricultural toolKit)
Team members: David Burela, Dimaz Pramudya, Ed Hooper, Long Zheng
Brazil – Ecologix
Team Members: Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues, Eduardo Sonnino, Renato Ferreria, Roberto Sonnino
China – UniqueStudio
Team Members: Jing Pan, Yang Liu, Haojian Jin, Zhou Yan
Hungary - Digital Mania
Team Members: Ákos Kapui, Laszló Zöld, Bálint Orosz, Gergely Orosz
Portugal – (void*)
Team Members: André Sousa, Marco Barbosa, Martinha Rocha, José Faria
Slovakia - Housekeepers
Team Members: Marián Hönsch, Michal Kompan, Jakub Šimko, Dušan Zeleník
Indonesia dimana? Indonesia diwakilin oleh mas Dimaz Pramudya, yg kuliah di Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia... Teteppp...nggak mau kalah... ya iya, wong ADE-nya Indonesia juga lulusan Curtin University Australia, yg punya kampus kedua di Malaysia... dasar orang Indonesia nggak mau ngaku kalah :)
Anyway, Indonesia masih masuk Top 5 Rural Innovation Award... dan presentasinya hari Senin besok.
Doakan kami at least juara di Rural yah!
Wah, hari ini adalah hari yg ditunggu-tunggu. Setelah sarapan, kita ngumpul di kamarnya Arief untuk ngasih feedback ttg presentasi mereka.
Seperti biasa, kamarnya geek berantakan kalo belum nikah...
Tapi kamarnya Arief view-nya bagus menghadap River Seine...
Setelah itu aku ada tugas buat ngawasin tim-tim Embedded Development presentasi dari jam 13.00 - 16.00. Di sela-sela break, gw ngeliat salah satu snack yg w suka... Pretzel! Dan disini Pretzel nya gede-gede bo... gratis lagi.
Jam 16.30 tim Antarmuka presentasi selama 20 menit, diikuti oleh 5 menit Tanya Jawab. Hmm, karena diubah last-minute, waktu demo kurang synch antara Ella (presenter) dan Dimas (demo monkey)... have to do better. Tapi at least, ada juri yg berkomentar "That was a good presentation!"...
Setelah itu, aku kembali jadi monitor tim-tim Embedded Development sampai jam 11 malam... gila gila, ini kerja rodi banget ya...
Ini tim Embedded dari Morocco yg harus ngerakit ulang demo mereka... gile, nggak kebayang bawa equipment segede Microsoft Surface
Ini tim Embedded Bulgaria yg niat banget nempel poster dan demo mereka dgn Solar Panel...
Buat teman2 yg kena macet di jalan, bosan di kantor, atau antusias dengerin cerita Imagine Cup, silakan tune in ke 101.4 FM radio TraxFM.
Berikut jadwal Live Reporting mereka (semua waktu Jakarta):
- 4 Juli 2008:
- Jam 12.00 : Report on the overall event as this is not only Imagine Cup but also Education Leaders forum and Women and Technology. Consists of every brief of event and what is the benefit in joining the event.
- Jam 14.30 : Report on how our the Indonesian team feels after arriving in Paris get a glimpse of the whole event and see the competitors – maybe better to have one of the team to be interviewed.
- Jam 16.30 : Report on the categories competed and the result of the press briefing.
- 5 Juli 2008:
- Jam 12.00 : 1st experience on the competition – comment on other competitors (some additional comment on other innovation and how should Indonesia learn from it).
- Jam 19.00 : 2nd experience of the competition – comment on other competitors (some additional comment on other innovation and how should Indonesia learn from it).
- 6 Juli 2008:
- Jam 12.00 : Result on the Competition and Semi Finalist.
- Jam 17.00 : The team experience after getting to know the other team and their innovations.
- 7 Juli 2008:
- Jam 12.00 : Result on the day press briefing and how Indonesia can learn or benefit from it.
- Jam 21.00 : The Rural Innovation Award – Indonesia Team performance and others
- 8 Juli 2008:
- Jam 23.30 : The Final winners!!!! And Everything about the whole event!
Tune-in dan sms ke nomor TraxFM kalo ada feedback ttg ceritanya ya..atau apa yg harusnya diceritain.
Jam 06.30 kita harusnya ngumpul di lobby bawah, tapi jeng-jeng manis delegasi cewek ternyata baru turun jam 06.45... terus breakfast di Hotel LeMeridien dan baru berangkat ke airport jam 07.15.
Di Frankfurt nggak ada taxi kayak MaxiCab atau van-taxi, jadinya harus menggunakan 2 taxi limo. Nah, disini problemnya: ternyata taxi rombongan saya menyalip taxi rombongan Mba Vivi (TraxFM Radio). Tapi waktu sampai di airport, saya ingat-nya kalo taxi saya itu paling belakang, jadi langsung masuk airport celingak-celinguk dimana rombongan berikutnya... Handphone tidak ada yg bisa dihubungi pula...
Ternyata rombongan Mba Vivi baru sampai 10menit dari rombongan saya. Ok, jam sudah menunjukkan 07.35 dan kita belum check-in padahal pesawat ke Paris berangkat jam 08.45.
Tanya sana-sini dikasih tahu kalau kita di hall yg salah... pas sampai di Hall yg bener... wuidih wuidih... antriannya puanjang banget bo' ! Udah deg-deg-an aja nih kalo bisa ngejar pesawat jam 08.45 nggak, soalnya kan check-in tutup 45menit sebelum take-off.
Alhamdulillah, antrian di Lufthansa tidak seburuk yg kita bayangkan, dalam waktu 10menit kita sudah bertukar posisi dari yg paling belakang (dari sekitar 50orang) sampai ke yg pertama. Soalnya check-in counter nya juga buanyak banget sih..
Dapat petugas check-in yg cantik dan ramah. Awalnya dia kaget saya kasih 8 passport, namun dgn charm yg saya miliki, saya rayu2 dan bilang, "All from the same country, all to the same destination... it should be no problem for you". Akhirnya dengan menarik napas panjang, si mba mulai memanggil satu-per-satu delegasi Indonesia.
Jam 08.05 delegasi Indonesia sudah memegang boarding pass semua. Oh ya, delegasi Indonesia adalah:
- Arief Widhiyasa (Tim Antarmuka)
- Ella Madanella (Tim Antarmuka)
- Dimas Y. Danurwenda (Tim Antarmuka)
- Erga Ghaniya (Tim Antarmuka)
- Pak Dwi (Mentor tim Antarmuka, MIC-ITB Advisor)
- Mba Vivi (radio TraxFM 101.4)
- Mas Wisnu (koran Kompas)
- Z (yg paling ganteng)
Nah disini kepekaan tim teruji. Setelah semua orang ngumpul, ternyata Dimas tidak ada. Ditungguin 10 menit sampai 08.15 tidak muncul2, ya sudah kami berharap dia akan boarding sendiri. Ternyata begitu masuk security benar, tuh anak udah paling depan antrian... yee semua orang capek nyariiin dia, eh dia malah santai2 antri paling depan ternyata.
Frankfurt - Paris sudah seperti Jakarta - Yogyakarta, cuman 1 jam perjalanan terbang. Setelah tidur 1 jam dan tidak kebagian makanan (koq nggak dibangunin sih, Mba?), kita sampai juga di airport Charles de Gaulle, Paris jam 10.00 pagi.
Setelah nunggu koper lama, kita keluar ke Arrival Hall jam 10.30 mencari2 crew Imagine Cup. Setelah dapat ternyata disuruh nunggu sampai jam 11.00, jadi kita ke basement dulu liat2 toko yg ternyata nggak begitu banyak.
Jam 11 kita naik lagi dan akhirnya dapat bus untuk ke Hotel Novotel Tour Eiffel. Sampai di hotel check-in lalu makan siang...
Setelah makan siang, kita cari2 toko handphone untuk alat komunikasi di Paris selama 1 minggu, juga untuk kebutuhan Mba Vivi untuk Live Reporting from Paris di radio 101.4 TraxFM. Ternyata nyari toko handphone di luar Indonesia itu susahnya minta ampun, jalan 30menit baru ketemu tokonya... udah gitu proses registrasi untuk 5 handphone (1 Pak Dwi, 1 Mas Wisnu, 1 Mba Vivi, 1 Tim Antarmuka, 1 Z) juga memakan waktu 30 menit... karena 1 orang hanya boleh maximal punya 2 SIM Card, jadi di-proses nya per-dua orang..
Balik lagi ke Hotel Novotel jam 16.00 cuman cukup untuk naruh handphone dan charge sebentar, karena jam 16.30 kita harus ngumpul di bawah untuk Welcoming Reception di Hotel de Ville (City Hall) Paris.
Selama perjalanan ke Hotel de Ville, bus kita mutar-mutar sekitar 1jam menunjukkan kota Paris... dan woow, Paris is benar-benar beautiful. Di film dan foto mungkin kelihatan biasa, tapi jika melihat dengan mata sendiri, memang wow... di seluruh kota-nya wow... soalnya kan ada kota yg daerah tertentunya saja yg bagus, tapi di Paris... semua yg kita lihat itu bagus banget... gedungnya, pohon2nya, jalannya, suasananya... benar2 kota tujuan honeymoon dan wisata.
Ya karena di bus, saya tidak mengambil foto2. Jadi untuk foto2 menara Eiffel dsb, harus tunggu report hari Minggu, karena hari itu adalah hari bebas untuk kita.
Ok, sampai di Hotel de Ville, kita agak menunggu lama untuk kehadiran sang Mayor... setelah ditunggu sekian lama, eh akhirnya yg muncul Deputy Mayor -nya... tahu gitu dari tadi donk Pak :)
Setelah acara officially dibuka, kita melanjutkan makan malam... tapi kayaknya bukan makan malam deh, soalnya yg ada di meja hanya makanan2 kecil yg bentuknya aneh dan rasanya juga aneh... oh my God, give me my Pop-Mi now!
Setelah ngobrol sana-sini dengan tim lain dan teman2 Microsoft lain, akhirnya kaki saya pegal juga... dan juga delegasi Indonesia yg lainnya (soalnya standing party dari jam 18.30 bo). Akhirnya kita putuskan untuk naik bus pulang jam 21.30.
Sampai di Hotel Novotel yg lain istirahat, tim Antarmuka mempersiapkan presentasi, dan aku check-in di Hotel Adagio. Sampai di Adagio langsung teler... baru bangun jam 03.00 pagi buat ngecek email dan nge-blog.
Foto2nya belum banyak krn Day 1 itu hectic banget sampe nggak sempet ngambil kamera... tunggu hari Minggu untuk foto2 kita di Eiffel dan sekitar Paris.
Di Hotel de Ville, suasanya serba era Renaissance... penuh dgn marmer, emas, dan lukisan2 cewek telanjang. Nah foto dibawah ini adalah entrance-nya ke acara Imagine Cup. Kepala orang yg naik kuda emang nggak lebih ganteng dari kepala orang yg di depan kuda....
Ini kamar/apartemen ku di Hotel Adagio...bagian ruang tamu/dapur/ruang kerja nya.
Hari ke-2, Jum'at ini, tim Antarmuka akan melakukan lightning round di depan Jury... doakan kami sukses ya!
With Risman's announcement looking for a DE and Norman's announcement replacing Risman, I kinda feel itchy to follow the same thing... in a relay-race, a person who drops the baton will make the team lose, and I don't want to drop the baton and jeopardize the greatness of the DPE Indonesia Team. Thus, I'm looking for a runner who can run faster than me and has more stamina to stand the heat while running, a person I can pass my baton to...
Ok, good stuff first: this job will make your travel dreams come true. With this job, I have travelled to almost all major islands in Indonesia: Sumatra, Jawa (all the big cities), Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Bali. Papua was in plan this year, but my plane seems to have run out of fuel :) Depending on budget, you may travel outside the country once a year (PDC, TechEd, etc.) for technical update. But you will most likely travel to wherever Imagine Cup is hosted....
Your main job will be evangelizing Imagine Cup. You have to make everybody know about Imagine Cup. You have to try hard and make Indonesia get into the Top 6 Software Design and encourage other students to explore other categories than Software Design (Embedded, Game Development, Photography, Short Film, etc.).
- Imagine Cup 2006: India
- Imagine Cup 2007: Korea
- Imagine Cup 2008: France
- Imagine Cup 2009: Egypt
So, you think you have all the good technical skills to do Visual Studio, WPF, WCF, WF, CardSpace, Silverlight, Robotics Studio, XNA, ASP.NET, Ajax Evangelization? But wait, good technical skills are not enough... you may even be disappointed with the job if your focus is coding, coding, and only coding... Dude, you gotta meet people and talk. You gotta organize events and invite people. Then you gotta need to build the demos (usually within 2-3 days timeframe... hehehe).
I'm gonna borrow my colleague's job description about ADE (Academic Developer Evangelist), adding a twist to make it real-life in DPE Indonesia:
| Component | % of Role |
Technology Evangelism
- Redelivery of existing demos and presentations on developer tools and technologies to student audiences. (in other words: borrow other people's demos and present it again... not so original. I, myself, don't like this much as it's better to understand your code than other people's code :P )
- Development of presentations/training content relating to developer tools and the Microsoft development platform. (in other words: you gotta have the skills to build your own demos and deliver workshops)
- Preparing for sessions to be delivered to students. (in other words: event organizing, but you will get help from your friendly Microsoft Student Partners for this)
|
30%
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Program Management
- Recruitment, mentoring and support of Microsoft Student Partners (on campus students who assist in delivering our technology story to students).
- Promote and mentor teams that have entered in the Imagine Cup Competition (a global technology competition for students).
- Reporting on progress on other activities.
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30%
|
Issue Management and Other Projects
- Help system administrators within academic institutions realize the benefits of their Microsoft software through assisting them in the deployment of software into labs, on staff machines and to students. (in other words: you gotta promote MSDNAA - Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance)
- Assist in the execution other activities within the team
- Taking care of Microsoft Innovation Center
- Taking care of future super top-secret projects :)
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40%
|
Okay, I don't want to disappoint people by creating the assumption that this is a super-cool technical job:
- You have 5+ years coding experience: So what? In Microsoft, we can always borrow other people's codes and demos. You gotta state why you're different from the others :)
- You have a PhD: Don't bother joining if you think you can be close to Microsoft Research or you want to keep on writing papers. Yes, you can use your PhD to talk to other senior faculty members who also have PhD, but remember, the ADE's main audience are students.
- You have an MSc / MS: Don't bother joining if you think you can save up some money for your PhD. Same rule with PhD above apply.
- You have an MBA: Cools, you probably have better insight on how to manage and run things around, especially with so many people and projects under you, you gotta have some business skills here.
- GENERAL IMPORTANT RULE: You think you are great? Well, my 52 Microsoft Student Partners (MSPs) can probably do all the above job, and most of them are students still studying in college. I've witnessed MSPs building their own great demos (and games too!), I've seen MSPs organize events which seem impossible at first, I've sen MSPs take care of MSDNAA and held MSDNAA Install Fests (give away Microsoft software for students). So, I need to know why you're better than them and why they should be managed under you? Freshgrad or experienced, it doesn't matter as long as you have the passion and determination :)
If you think you're brave enough to take my warning above and feel upbeat to take the challenge, I suggest you send your super-cool complete Curriculum Vitae (pls make it interesting to read, else we'll just throw it away) to Risman Adnan (rismana at microsoft dot com) or Narenda Wicaksono (i-narenw at microsoft dot com), whichever one you feel you're closer to, so they can give you good recommendations or bad recommendations :)
Are you ready grasshopper? I hope to see you when I come back from Imagine Cup 2008, France.
Dalam blog series ini, akan saya ceritakan pengalaman Imagine Cup 2008 yg akan diadakan di Paris, Perancis tanggal 3-8 July 2008 besok. Mudah2an bisa hari-per-hari, tapi jika tidak, akan dirangkum sebisa mungkin.
Ok, mulai dari awal...
Tim Antarmuka dari Senin, 30 Juni sudah berada di Jakarta untuk TraxFM 101.4 radio interview jam 19.00-20.00. Hari Selasa 3 July, siangnya, dari hotel Sultan Jakarta kita berangkat naik MaxiCab jam 15.00. Sampai di Bandara jam 16.00. Ngumpul dan makan di McD sambil nungguin yg belum datang... Jam 16.30 kita check-in dgn penerbangan Lufthansa LH779.
Wuihh, pesawatnya sepi, kita pikir... Take off jam 18.50 dari Jakarta, sampai di Singapore jam 22.00. Take off jam 23.00 dari Singapore dan wuihhh, pesawatnya penuh sesak dan AC-nya koq nggak dingin ya?
Hari Rabu 2 July jam 05.30 sampai di Frankfurt, Germany dan check-in di hotel jam 06.00 pagi di Le Meridien Parkhotel.
Kenapa kita ke Germany, wong acaranya di Perancis? Ya soalnya waktu ngurus visa di kedutaan Perancis agak ribet, dan waktu ngurus visa di kedutaan Jerman lebih cepat dan efektif. Bagi yg belum tahu visa Schengen, inilah peta 15 negara yg menandatangin pakta Schengen, sehingga dengan satu visa Schengen, kita bisa ke 15 negara tersebut:
Sayangnya kedutaan Jerman walaupun cepat dan efektif ngasih visa Schengen, tapi jumlah hari-nya sesuai dengan travel plan kita. Karena kita nggak bilang mau extend, jadi cuman dikasih ijin sampai 12 July untuk tinggal di wilayah Schengen... yah nggak sempat ke Spanyol dan Italy deh...
Ok, lanjut cerita hari ini di Frankfurt... setelah sarapan kedua kalinya (yg pertama jam 4.30pagi di pesawat), kita naik bus double-decker untuk lihat-lihat kota Frankfurt. Berikut beberapa fotonya:
Inilah foto Calon Juara kita...
Romer, kota tua, Batavia-nya Frankfurt...
Balik lagi di Hotel LeMeridien jam 12.00 siang... cek email, nonton TV. Jam 15.00 kita jalan2 lagi buat makan siang. Makan siang di restoran Kebab Turki yg kebabnya 2x lebih gede daripada Doner Kebab di Jakarta... kenyang kenyang deh tuh perut... Agar sehat selalu, setelah makan yg berat2, kita jalan2 ke kawasan Zeil, tempat belanjanya Frankfurt... tapi sama sekali tidak menarik... nggak beli apa2 kecuali es-krim deh. Kata orang Hotel sih 10 mins walk dari Hotel ke Zeil, padahal buat kita serasa 30 minutes walking distance... Oleh karena itu pulangnya kita nekat lewat Subway (kereta bawah tanah), walaupun belum pernah ada yg naik itu sebelumnya,
Dengan pe-de-nya kita beli tiket ke Hauptbahnhof (stasiun Gambir-nya Frankfurt) seharga Euro 1.5 , karena hotel LeMeridien ada di seberang stasiun kereta utama tersebut. Setelah saweran agar 6 orang bisa dapetin tiket tersebut, kita turun ke rel kereta. Ok... naik kereta yg mana yah... dengan pe-de-nya lagi, sebagai decision-maker, aku iseng-iseng pilih jalur kereta yg kiri, karena toh semua kereta pasti lewat Stasiun Utama... lewat 1 pemberhentian... dan benar, pemberhentian kedua adalah Hauptbahnhof. Ok, kita turun dari kereta dan naik ke atas untuk kemudian keluar dari stasiun utama...
Tapi sebentar... loh ada yg janggal disini... koq kita masih megang tiket kereta seharga Euro 1.5 yah? Padahal kalo di MRT Singapore dan LRT Malaysia kan sebelum naik kereta masukin tiket dan setelah naik kereta tiket hilang ditelan mesin. Ternyata disini orang dianggap sudah jujur yah, dan sadar hukum. Karena kalau ketawan nggak beli tiket katanya dendanya bisa 10x lipat harga tiket asli. Dan kalo nge-les dengan alasan turis atau apapun nanti akan dibentak dan dinasihati, "Kalau saya biarkan Anda lolos sekarang, berarti saya membiarkan Anda untuk mengulangi kesalahan kedua-kalinya, bahkan lebih!"... Wow, galak man...
Sampai di hotel jam 17.00 langsung terkepar teler... minum obat batuk, ngantuk, terus tidur... dibangunkan jam 21.00 malam karena kita mau makan malam. Oh my oh my, ternyata jam 21.00 itu masih panas bo' ... jam 22.00 matahari baru terbenam... kasihan banget kalo harus puasa disini yah...
Kita makan di restoran Vietnam, yg noodle-nya gila banyak benerrr....
Dan pas pulang, kita melihat satu gang isinya... waduh manstab banget... pokoknya lihat dari judul hotel dibawah ini deh :)
Ok, sekarang jam 2pagi, jam 6pagi kita harus siap2 untuk ke bandara melanjutkan perjalanan ke kota Paris, Perancis.
Oh ya, Frankfurt dan Paris bedanya -5 jam dari Indonesia... jadi kalo di Indonesia jam 10 pagi, berarti di Frankfurt dan Paris masih jam 5 pagi.
Jadwal Shalat di Frankfurt biar tahu perbedaannya dengan di Jakarta:
- Subuh: jam 03.00 pagi
- Dzuhur: Jam 13.30 siang
- Ashar: Jam 18.00 sore
- Maghrib: Jam 22.00 malam
- Isya: Jam 24.00 / 00.00 tengah malam
Untung musafir... ya musafir :)
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