24th October 2009 - A Milestone in CBEUG - The First ever BootCamp @ Coimbatore

The day began with Arumugham, two fellow usergroup members (Fazulul & Vivek) and myself receiving the MSPs who came for the BootCamp. The venue of the BootCamp was Zoom Consultancy. My sincere thanks to Mr. Anil Nair for providing us the venue. The MSPs who came for the BootCamp were

Indhuja Pillai - Narasu's Sarathy Institute of Technology , Salem
Saarang - Tamil Nadu College of Engineering , Coimbatore
Jibin Varghese - Tamil Nadu College of Engineering, Coimbatore
Bharath Wajan Prabhu - M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering , Coimbatore
Gopinantham - Nandha College of Engineering, Erode
Gowtham - Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore
Venkat - Velalar College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore
Animesh Jain - Shaasthra University, Thanjavur
Kusumakar Dwivedi - Shaasthra University, Thanjavur
Raja Ram - PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
Sathyanarayanan - Krishna College of Arts and Science , Coimbatore
Krsna Rajan - Maha College of Engineering,
Siddharth - Bannari Amman College of Technology, Coimbatore

There were a couple of more MSPs who happen to miss the session due to various reasons, but we will make it a point that their role transitions happen to them also.


The Agenda for the day was

Introduction 9 30 AM - 10 00 AM
Ice Breaking Session 10 00 AM - 11 00 PM
MSP Program 11 00 PM - 12 00 PM
Lunch 12 00 PM - 1 30 PM
CBEUG Structure 1 30 PM - 2 30 PM
Exclusive Session for New
MSPs on how to achieve targets 2 30 PM - 3 30 PM
Feedback and Interaction 3 30 PM - 4 00 PM

Arumugham and Myself began the introductory session and we started off explaining our past experiences and how we were recruited into the program and so on. The Ice Breaking session was effective, we made the new recruits make 10 statements about themselves out of which 5 statements should be stated false, and the rest of them should guess which were the false statements made by the speaker. We explained the roles and benefits of an MSP, the Do's and Don'ts etc. Then comes the most interesting part , Lunch!

But.. for us..
Lunch: 4 of us ate Pizza and we had to empty our wallets. 1000 Bucks!!! :'(

So, after a sumptuous lunch the CBEUG structure was explained to them. I would be proud to say that even a heavy meal didn't make the MSPs feel sleepy for any of the session. Then the method of uploading and the opportunities available for the new recruits to gain points very easily was clearly described. I was very glad that the MSPs were already in the process of planning to reach their targets. One of the MSPs (Sathya) already has secured 160 points which was truly amazing!


After the sessions and lots of coffee, we celebrated the launch of Windows 7! It was a small party where we ate some Junk food and used the Windows 7 Tissue Papers :). Overall it was a memorable event, a niche in the history of CBEUG. Hoping to make wonders in the coming days.

The New Recruits were amazing to be with. They truly deserve the role of an MSP. They were highly responsive and interactive.

We are truly glad that we were able to motivate and guide our junior MSPs, personally It really feels good within meeting them :)


@ the New Recs: NOW ITS (Y)OUR TIME TO SHINE ;)


Gee! Im Friggin' excited about the next meeting already. aksj;klsadj;flkadwm;f;jew''wefjsljka <-- Statement of Excitement