3rd Icean Congress with Developer’s Connect

University of Southeastern Philippines

Bo. Obrero Campus, Davao City

Institute of Computing

SEMINAR REPORT

3^rd  Icean Congress with

DevCon (Developer’s Connect)

September 7, 2011

OVERVIEW

It was almost one year ago, when a the collaboration between the class of Field Trip and Seminars, Society of Information Technology Students (SITS), and Computer Science Society (CSS) fruited as the 3^rd Icean Congress with DevCon (Developer’s Connect) was successfully held at the USeP Social Hall last September 7, 2011.

The said congress was attended by the students of Institute of Computing and students of related courses from others schools like Ateneo de Davao University, MATS College of Davao, Jose Maria College, University of Mindanao, Holy Cross of Davao College, and AMA Computer College. It was considered as one of the biggest gathering of information and technology studies here in Davao. The congress was celebrated together with the software freedom day. So, it is predectable that the main topic of the seminar is promoting the use of open-source softwares instead of using pirated and unlicense softwares.

The program was opened with remarks from Engr. Val A. Quimno, Dean of the Institute of Computing, who talked about the how the event is important to the students. Then, an awarding of the Certificate of Recognition was also held given to all the students of the Institute of Computing who gathered an GWA of 2.0 or higher from the last semester. It was great recognition for them but sorry for me, because I’m not of them. However, it make me motivate to strive more harder to achieve high grade and gain respect as what they have got. Afterwards, the 4^th year Computer Science and Information Technology students presented their Thesis Proposal and IT Project, respectively.

After the lunch break, the DevCon seminar was officially started by having lightning talks with different topics. Irwin Rod Adesna, a 4^th year ICean student, talked about the “Sex of Ideas” or the collaboration between two or more persons to create a more productive and quicker solution to a problem. The another lady speaker from the MATS College of the Davao talks about the Open Source Programming Utilities, she emphasize that it is no need to use the pirated software especially in university computer laboraty if there are lots of free equivalent software available. She also promotes an open-source computer laboratory that the universirty must have. The other speakers also  talked about Open Street Map, Content Management Systems, Android Technology, and Networking. All speakers, intruduce an new and realible open softwares in connection of the celebration of software freedom day.

Another part of the seminar was a friendly debate between three teams, it is  called Birds of Feather (BOF), was conducted to know which among Windows, Mac, and Linux the best operating system is. Three team done good that able to convince the listeners why kind of operation system they represented is better than other. Afterwards the announcement of winners, the team of Windows was hailed as the champions and the distribution of certificates and closing remarks finished the program successfully.

List of Students

1.      Buendia, Hazel Mae

2.      Estose, Mea Chona

3.      Palma, Lady Rose

4.      Papas, Ann Juvie

5.      Carabuena, Tiffany

6.      Consejo, Juvilyn

7.      Del Rosario, Rheanaliz

8.      Nakaoshi, Mari

9.      Tan, Jemelie

10.  Agle, Christian Cabrera

11.  Balagolan, John Paul

12.  Inte, Melchor

13.  Muloñas,Rouen

14.  Noval, Xaviery Dwight

15.  Bueno, Karlo Jay

16.  Calonia, Viktor Immanuel

17.  Faelnar, Nick

18.  Lim, Eric

19.  Manimbo, Jason

20.  Palacio, Michael

21.  Flores, Brian