All members are encouraged to come as well as prospective members. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone you know, send an email to: isma.ucsc@gmail.com

ISMA will be touring IBM, this is a great opportunity to meet people in the industry and get your resume into the hands of an actual person. Availability is done on a first come, first served basis so if you are interested send an email to isma.ucsc@gmail.com and come to E2 599 @ 7pm on Monday April 13th for carpool assignments. We will be leaving at 7:30 am the day off and returning between 12pm and 1pm.

The locatiotion of the first member meeting has been set. We will be holding it in E2 399. For those of you who don't know where this is E2 is the big building behind the main Jack Baskin Building when you get off the bus the room is on the 3rd floor right as you geto off the elevator. Also new members go to http://isma.soe.ucsc.edu/contact.shtml to fill out a membership application form!

Location: TBA. Come check out what we have planned for this year as well as more inforation about us and what we do.

If your looking at this site you may be interested in attending this conference. If you are interested you can get free tickets using this code websf08co149.

We will be visiting the Googleplex On February 15th. If you are interested in going respond on the forum with your name and contact information

The new date has been set for February 8th.

Check the forums for information on Cisco tour

Come to our End of the Quarter event. It will be this Friday at 4:30PM. Directions to the location can be found via the Google map below. It is a chance for everyone to talk about how this quarter went, how next quarter will go and how we can improve. Also, it's a potluck so don't forget to bring either food or drinks!

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Game Tournament & SHPE Poker Tournament
We will be having our quarterly video game tournament (The game: Smash Brothers) and we need volunteers to help out organize this. It is being planned to be held in the crown/merrill apartments community room. Prizes will be handed out! If you're interested, contact Tom Freeman ( tafreema@ucsc.edu) or e-mail us to get involved.
Similarly, ISMA is organizing a Poker Tournament with the SHPE organization and help is needed to organize that as well. To help get involved, e-mail us at: isma.ucsc@gmail.com for more details.

Exciting opportunity to visit Open Oracle technology conference. ISMA is planning a trip for Monday November 12th. We will be meeting: Hector Ruiz, PhD., from AMD. Also Charles Phillips from oracle additionally we will have an opportunity to network with them. NOTE: Admission is FREE only if you register online before Nov. 9th.
Register here: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/registration.html --> Select Visitor Plus Pass
Agenda for the Day: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/agenda.html

• Date: Nov. 12th
• Time: Leave Santa Cruz at 7:30am(Tentative)

We will be carpooling. If you're interested, sign up first and then come to our Officer Meetings on Sunday at 6:00pm at Baskin Room 312c to work out carpooling details.

Upcoming job fair opportunity! PDMA ( http://www.norcalpdma.org/) is hosting their 3rd annual job fair at the Yahoo! Campus in Silicon Valley. Company managers, professionals and other technology people will be there and are eagerly looking to meet UCSC students especially because apparently, they weren't aware that UCSC has an engineering program and they usually are stuck with choices from SJSU, so they will REALLY want to hear from us.

• Date: Nov. 14th
• Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm

If interested, contact ISMA ASAP so we can arrange carpooling. Bring your resume!

Outreach week was a great success! Thanks to everyone who helped table and present to classes. Because of your hard work we have nearly doubled our membership already, and the quarter just began!
The week came to a close with our first member meeting of the year where we got 11 new member signups. We showed a short presentation about ISMA goals and activities and got a lot of interest from our new members and plenty of ideas for events you guys want to see ISMA putting on this year. Then everyone chatted and chowed down on pizza. So thank you for coming and giving us your feedback!
To our newest members: you have been added to our member list. Send any questions you may have about ISMA, or anything else we might be able to help you with, to isma.ucsc@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you at our future events!

The School of Engineering is hosting the first ISMFUL of the year. This is an event for ISM students to come socialize with faculty of the ISM department and discuss relevant topics concerning academia and the industry. More details will be posted shortly.

REVIEW MATERIAL

If you are going on the Cisco trip, please review these articles and links.

• Biography Links
  • Joe Burton
  • Cullen Jennings
• Relevant Articles
  • Cisco's Voice and Unified Communications Page
  • Microsft Enter's VOIP Space

INTRODUCTION

ISMA will be taking a group of ISMA members to visit Cisco Systems. This will mark our second corporate tour of the quarter. The previous tour at Sun Microsystems was a huge success. We plan to make this follow up even stronger.

• When: Friday, June 1st, 12-4:30pm (Please note this does not include driving time)
• Where: Cisco Systems in San Jose, CA
• Itenary:
  • Lunch (Provided by Cisco)
  • Q & A Session with Industry Professionals
  • TAC Lab Tour (Valued at 1 Billion Dollars)
  • Executive Briefing Center (Dress code enforced: no Jeans, shorts, ripped clothing etc.) - Hosted President Bush and Governor Schwarzenegger recently!
  • Campus Store (Right next to the EBC if you feel like it)

IMPORTANT DATES IN PREPARATION

• Thursday, May 24th, 7pm - Deadline for Priority RSVP's (We'll notify you if you have a priority spot)
• Friday, May 25th - Saturday, May 27th - Open RSVPs (Watch website for announcement)
• Sunday, May 26th, 7:30pm - Mandatory preparation meeting to discuss:
  • Transportation
  • Dress Codes
  • Cisco Background
  • Industry Professionals background
• Tuesday, May 28th - Must have attendance list finalized and given to Cisco
• Friday, June 1st - Trip to Cisco

QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?

• Please email Kevyan Berenjian at kberenji@ucsc.edu for questions.