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Dear EESTECers,

From this month the Newsletter will be different, there will be two versions, one text sent by e-mail, like so far, and the other one will be with pictures. This month, the first HTML version was made by Vladimir Delibasic, and our VC-IA Marija Jemuovic, we thank them for the hard work. You see the Newsletter here: http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~dv030439d/newsletter_dec07.html

I hope you will enjoy both Newsletters. Please send your comments, like that we can keep the good things, and we will change what you will dislike.

Newsletter topics: New Year's greeting Board Change Past Events Local Events Future Events

Hello all,

As the New Year here, on this last newsletter of 2007 and first in 2008, we would like to greet you with the words from an EESTECer who managed to express our feelings and wishes for the upcoming year in the best way:

Well dear EESTECer,

another year has come and gone. The holidays are here once again. We hope you spend them with a smile on your face and a bounce in your step. Don't worry about the future, for now; it's still a long way off. And don't worry about the past, it is over and gone. Enjoy the here and now, where ever it may be.

We wanted a nice, holidayish quote, but unfortunately those were all sold out, so this will have to work:

May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back and the sun upon your face and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

And smile please.

Thank you :)

Jure Forstneric LC Ljubljana

Special thanks to Jure for his words

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Let's take a look at what happened in EESTEC last month:

Board Change

LC Ljubljana, LC Cosenza, LC Tampere, LC Krakow, LC Belgrade, LC Trieste, LC Budapest and LC Aachen elected their new board members. We want to thank the old board members for their hard and dedicated work and want to wish good luck to the new ones. Keep up good work!

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EESTEC Slogan

In addition to board changes, new slogan of EESTEC was elected by EESTEC International Board from 64 slogan ideas came from 14 different LCs. Official EESTEC slogan will be "POWER YOUR FUTURE" which was proposed by Elena Diaconescu from LC Bucharest and for Junior LCs Faro and Lisbon who invented the name. Also a big thanks to the one's who came up with many great proposals for EESTEC Slogan!

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Past Events There were four events in December and all of them were very successfully organized and the participants had great time and they learned a lot. We had Plone my Web in Skopje, traditional Niko-Event in Aachen and Go Farming in Belgrade. LC Belgrade was more hard working and they also organized second ECM which was also their second event in one month.

*Go Farming!* LC Belgrade organized the event "Go Farming" between 2 and 9 of December 2007 which dealt with new Internet technologies and Linux web server farms.

*Plone My Web * * **3rd edition*** For 9 days, 12 participants and 3 Slovenian lecturers were exploring the secrets of Plone in Skopje, and were developing the NGEP (Next Generation EESTEC Portal) www.eestec.net http://www.eestec.net/. The mission was successfully completed, the work was done, participants are now skilled in Plone, and very soon everyone will be able to check the new updated site, along with the new draft-web sites for each LC and Observer in EESTEC. We hope the next PloneMyWeb workshops will be as successful as this one and the two previous ones in Ljubljana, and will motivate people to join the EESTEC IT team.

* Niko-Meeting *

**Last month LC Aachen organized Niko-Meeting between 2 and 6 of December 2007 which was another traditional event for EESTEC. This small and nice exchange gave participants the chance to taste a Christmas market atmosphere together when New Year is approaching instead of the technical trainings that we have during workshops.

*EESTEC Chairpersons' Meeting 2007 *

LC Belgrade organized the second ECM between 10 and 16 of December 2007 which can be considered as one of the most important events of last year. Chairpersons of all Local Committees were invited in order to be trained, share experiences and contribute to the future development of EESTEC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Local Events

KONTEH07 - Novi Sad JobFair EESTEC LC Novi Sad is very proud to be the organizer of KONTEH07 which took place on Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad on 11th and 12th December 2007. It is second time that LC Novi Sad was organizing this event, with purpose of helping students of technical faculties to find a job and companies to find best employees in this area. 15 companies from region took participation. More than 600 students seeking for employment have already left their CVs at the KONTEH website ( www.konteh.org http://www.konteh.org/ - unfortunately it is in Serbian only, but by clicking on "Galerija" you can see the photos from the event :) The event was well promoted among students and accompanied by presence of the press. Coorganizer of the event was IEEE-ISBIR and we had 2 guests: Yasemin Baser from Turkey and Andreas Koltes from Germany who held presentation about ISBIR project during KONTEH. We had support of our University, City Government and Government of Vojvodina. In LC Novi Sad very first preparations for KONTEH started half a year ago; the organizing committee was numbering 7 people; there were teams for FR, PR, IT and logistics, each numbering more than 10 people; and the full number of EESTECers from LC Novi Sad who helped this project to come true is more than 60.

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*Upcoming events:*

We have five events announced on EESTEC website for New Year.

*Name* *Organizer* *Type* *Period* *Deadline*

Jahorina Winter Exchange 2008 East Sarajevo Exchange 10/01/08- 17/01/08 31/12/2007

Carnival in Rijeka Rijeka Exchange 01/02/08- 04/02/08 **5/1/2008

Training for Trainers Ankara Workshop 10/02/08- 17/02/08 **EU Grant application

Fascinating Parties Great Academics (FPGA \ '08) Eskisehir Workshop 02/03/08- 09/03/08 **Not sent yet

Annual Congress 2008: Ljubljana - Rijeka Ljubljana & Rijeka Annual Congress 04/04/08- 14/04/08 **Not sent yet

*** Challenge24-Budapest(participants can be students not necessarily EESTEC members)

*Jahorina Winter Exchange 2008*

Organizer: LC East Sarajevo Dates: 10-17.January.2008 Deadline: 31st of December Number of Participants: 20

LC East Sarajevo is inviting you to join them in the first days of the New Year to share the winter atmosphere on the Olympic mountain Jahorina, by trying different winter sport opportunities.

* Carnival in **Rijeka**

Organizer: LC Rijeka Dates: 1-4. February 2008 Deadline: 5th of January Number of Participants: 20

Feel the spirit of masking madness and become one of 10 000 masks and have fun before more than 200 000 spectators on Rijeka Korzo. Run away you too from reality and for just few days become what you always wanted to be: a pirate, a prisoner, a devil, a soldier or maybe a bad lover.

Challenge24**

Organizer: LC Budapest

Challenge24 is back to give a chance to compare the skills of coders who seek interesting problems in a prestigious contest. Teams of three can register until 17th Feburary, 2008 via the website of the contest: http://www.challenge24.org http://www.challenge24.org/. After this the first, on-line round of the contest will take place at 24th February. The best thirty teams will be invited to the 24-hour long final to BME, between 2-4 May, 2008.

Before finishing, we all wish you happy and successful new year, rest, enjoy your studies and your EESEC events.

Elena LC Skopje Ekin LC Istanbul Drazen LC Belgrade

Vladimir LC Belgrade

Marija VC-IA