Kerala Hindu Wedding Highlights - Anjana and Sandeep - "Kadhalaada (From "Vivegam")"

Kerala Wedding Outdoor - Anjana and Sandeep - "Pookkalae Sattru Oyivedungal (From "I")"

Career & Entrepreneurship

Career & Entrepreneurship from Sandeep C

Flash Mob at Centre Square Mall, Kochi on Valentines day - Brahma 2014 -...

Firefox Student Ambassadors Programme

I happened to know about the Firefox Student Ambassadors (FSA) Programme through a share on Facebook. As I had heard a lot about the Open Source movement and other FOSS related activities and wanted to be involved in it, I found this as an excellent entry point.

The usual Student Ambassador programmes that I had seen involved an application to the programme and then a selection after the completion of certain criteria. But the FSA Programme seemed to be different. After filling up the form, I got a mailing confirming that I have become an FSA. That seemed a bit odd to me at that time and felt that there was nothing special about becoming an FSA!

A few days later, I happened to read a newsletter from Mozilla and then understood that there is more to this programme than what it appears to be superficially! I started visiting the various Mozilla websites and discovered the extents of Mozilla as a company and its products.

I also started doing the FSA activities that were part of this programme. This was when I started to understand why the FSA programme was indeed different. It lets us contribute with full respect to our contributions.

Soon I set up a Firefox Club at my college and became the Club Lead after attending the Firefox Club Lead training. By setting up a Firefox Club in our college/university, we can get involved in a local community which works for the betterment of Mozilla Firefox by doing good!

In another newsletter,  found that there was a meetup happening in Kerala. I signed up for it and got selected to attend it. This was something that totally changed my perspective about Mozilla. We had a very active Mozilla community here called Mozilla Kerala. At the meetup we discussed all sorts of ways that we could use for the betterment of the society.

Till now, my journey as an FSA was mind-blowing and I expect more of such an experience in the future too! I wish all other FSAs a great success and urge other students to join the FSA Programme.

Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT)

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Degrading Microsoft

Microsoft, the company for which I dreamt of working many year ago, is screwing my respect for it day by day!! 

First by the Microsoft Sales Person AKA Microsoft Student Partners(MSP) programme and now I by the promotion of "Scroogled" merchandise in their store!

I can't imagine that the world's leading software company does not have an efficient marketing team that they are depending on college students for marketing their product (without any financial incentive let alone TA for attending their so called Annual MSP Summit)! I had heard that it used to be a good initiative long ago, but the standards are seriously degrading now! But I kept calm because I felt that the MSP Programme in India was led by some others and not Microsoft directly!

So it became: MSP - Redefining the meaning of evangelism!

Next, do they have to defame another company (or its products) in order to sell their products? I do not know! If their products were that great, people would prefer it over the former! I have never heard even a single person praising the legendary IE outside Microsoft Forums/Groups. If someone is so particular about their personal data, why don't they purchase some paid services! You can't expect these companies to be doing social service! I wish the company spends their time and money on improving their services rather than pointing at others. Instead of stopping xbox and Bing, they should rather stop these kind of activities.

#IMHO

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Sandeep C

Microsoft Student Partner, FY13 (unfortunately  )