Eco & Social work SIG

GreenAid

An ecological and social initiative by Institution of Engineers, NITK Chapter
Objective: To use the platform provided by IE SIGs to spread awareness about major social and environmental concerns and conduct events that will be of interest to the participants and also help spread awareness.
Relevancy: This SIG is essential and very relevant, since there isn’t much going on with respect to the above topics.
Tasks/Plans for this year:

• Try to get in touch with organizations like IAHV, Greenpeace India, CRY, WWF India, PETA India, and organizations dedicated to working for children with special needs, Jute Cottage, etc and help them out with projects that they have undertaken, specially around this area and help out with donations.
• Search for villages or localities that can use financial help and support them.
• Sponsor children’s educations and try to provide tools that can help them study.
• Try to conduct a vocational training session with a children and adults too.
• Attempt to make a difference through the kind of events we organize.
• Try to reduce the Carbon Footprint of people at college by spreading awareness.
• Recycling! Make it easier for others to give their stuff up for recycling.
• Start our own newsletter about environmental impact and social issues.

Since this is a new SIG, we are really looking forward to help and support from as many members of the club. If you have contacts/ideas, please let us know. :)

Computer History SIG

Theme
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Nothing too useful or computer related... Along with exploring some
sweet hardware and software from the past (http://bit.ly/SbvZO -- how
inviting is that?), we could discuss internet memes, your favourite
webcomics, famous usenet flame wars related to anything from linux and
minix to atheism and the invisible pink unicorn and learn about the
glorious culture that is the Internets.

Also, any takers for forming a group of archivists to archive websites
that have(are) played(ing) a part in the story of the internet heaven
forbid that they get lost in the apocalypse for ever? (eg. 4chan,
reddit, moderator threads on wikipedia, trails of revered anonymous
personae). (Ask why? see http://textfiles.com/) Or is writing
emulators for old hardware more like your thing? :P

Format of meet-ups
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In no way am I any authority in this, but we'll need to do our
research every week and present what we learn. I don't quite like the
"So-and-so will present about such-and-such next week same time same
place" model of SIGs, I'd rather everyone prepares a 5 (or 10?) minute
presentation on any topic (short, so not too much work / frustration,
not much damage done if the topic is uninteresting to the listener) of
his/her liking and further does a 5 minute Q&A session. Also, an IRC
channel to share links, scripts and flame will do some good in keeping
up the fun and interest.

Tl;dr: If you spend a lot of time on the internet or love computer
geek stories, this is a SIG you'll enjoy being a part of.

HR SIG

Will involve organising the club in a more efficient manner, so that its activities and events go on smoothly.

Writing SIG

This is mainly for newsletter but also for overall writing skill development. Can merge a book club idea with this later on.

Current Affairs

It is about having discussion sessions on various issues related to current affairs, controversial topics, matters that directly concern India and the world at large etc. Participants comprise of those who have a good knowledge of the topic and those curious to know about it. It gives us the edge of learning a variety of general topics and more importantly facilitates us to become a well informed citizen.

Media SIG

As of now this SIG will be open only to people who know the basics of Photoshop, Vegas, after effects etc. This SIG will include sessions on movie/poster making.

LabVIEW SIG

LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment used by millions of engineers and scientists to develop sophisticated measurement, test, and control systems using intuitive graphical icons and wires that resemble a flowchart. It offers unrivaled integration with thousands of hardware devices and provides hundreds of built-in libraries for advanced analysis and data visualization – all for creating virtual instrumentation. The LabVIEW platform is scalable across multiple targets and OSs, and, since its introduction in 1986, it has become an industry leader.
From taking simple temperature measurements to controlling the world’s largest particle accelerator, engineers and scientists use the LabVIEW graphical system design platform to meet a wide range of application challenges including Signal Processing, Instrument Control and Automation. You can also incorporate new LabVIEW projects into your systems because LabVIEW connects to virtually any measurement device and design tool.
At the LabVIEW SIG, we intend to familiarize the members with the LabVIEW environment, and involve them in basic coding. After that, we plan to implement a project using LabVIEW and hardware from the SOLVE Lab. Though the project topic is not fixed yet, some of the ideas that are under consideration are Gesture Controller and Telemetry system for Robots/UAVs.