Are you are a student, faculty member or even an alumni of any engineering college or MBA school in India? If yes, Google is inviting you for this unique challenge where you have to try and convince your school administration to use Google Apps for email, calendar, office, etc.
If the authorities take heed to your ‘intelligent’ advice and decide to roll-out Google Apps in the institute, Google will reward you with a certificate and will put your name on the Google Apps website.
The last date of registration for this Got the "App"titude challenge is September 15 so you still got plenty of time left. A single team is allowed per college and that team must also include at least one faculty member. More here.
And to make it easy for you to convince people, Google Apps team has prepared this presentation (PDF) highlighting the benefits of various Google Apps programs though these slides have been done in Microsoft PowerPoint, not Google Docs.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/india/challenge-switch-to-google-apps-in-school/4390/
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
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Prizes :
* A Certificate of Implementation
* Publication of your team’s name and member names on this website
Seems there is no cash prize!
Written by Amit Bhawani on 09.03.08
Thanks amit for this information
Written by Litto on 09.03.08
Indian colleges are so well stuck up in their own irrelevent issues that such “convincing college” act looks impossible to think even.
If,suppose,i go back to my college(i am an engg. grad),the authorities are so dumb that they would rather call this a time-waste and would rather reply to me like this :
“Iske bina bhi to kaam chal raha hai na”.
Written by Prashant on 09.03.08
We need this at our university. It is such a pain that we are still using Microsoft and we have such a small email storage quota. It would save them tons of money to use Google Apps instead and it would also take a great load of work off the IT department.
Written by Kevin on 09.03.08
I am signing up for the challenge. As am the only one in my college who can work well on the web and teach my college guys about this stuff and..
Written by Chetan on 09.03.08