Internet Evangelism in Romblon Adventist Mission Trip Report
Hello friends,
The Romblon Adventist Mission trip was fun for the following reasons:
-free airplane ride. SSD spent 19,790 pesos on tickets for Pastor Jonathan Catolico, SSD Communication director, Sir Pagaduan, and me.
-free parking in SSD, 1 week
-free hotel accomodation, monday to friday
-free vegetarian food paid for by SSD, Romblon Adventist Mission, Pastor Zabala's family, and others
-free touring around the island before the seminars, and after
-free 1 day seminar on newswriting from SSD Communications Director, Pastor Jonathan Catolico
-free 1 day seminar on computer graphics, photoshop, layouting, etc, from Chair of TradigitalFineArts Departmen t of AUP
-opportunity to promote and give away Discoveries08 and GYC08 DVDs
-opportunity to advertise AUP Compsci and Tradigital FineArts, and almost all other courses: Business, Education, Dentistry, Nursing, Theology, Medtech, ECE, CompTech, IT, ETEAP.
-opportunity to do oral-raise-your-hand surveys. 2% have internet at home. 2% have computers at home. 95% have friendster account, 1% have myspace, 0% don't know hi5, 98% don't know they have their own website already (in friendster). 5% check email weekly.
-4,500 pesos given to me for being resource speaker. from SSD. of course it just adds up to God's infinite budget for evangelism. that translates to 562.5 more DVDs for giveaways of either Discoveries08, GYC08, or tagalog video sermons!
-nice ride on new innova to airport, nice ride in new SSD hiace from airport.
-lots of buko
-free big tabletop with my name and role. traditional gift from romblon. no guest leaves romblon without it, they say.
-free plane baggage overloading pay coming back, courtesy of ssd.
-got to know many stories about the missionfield, miracles, deliverances, small group enthusiasm, possibilities, donated schools, churches, pastors styles, wage factors, working attitude, language efficiency, AdventSIM, radio stations, TV stations, other internet efforts
-idea of AdventLinux, to cater to software needs of people who don't want to pirate software. livecd with OO, gimp, scribus, audacity, bibles(kjv,tagalog,etc), sda-fundamental-beliefs, hymnal, great controversy, some discoveries08, extremefaith, mission pilot, egw free books & mp3s, tagalog sermons, church manual, dictionary/thesaurus
-got to use the SM2003 AUP pictures in the laptop, for showing students. i finished 3 lectures in about 2 hours and while .waiting for the certificates to be all printed, i just told them of the courses of in aup, the advantages and other nice things, while showing them the pictures.
-experienced administering aolis remotely over GPRS. editing classtimes and classroom names.
-got to taste "magic fruit"
We're back at aup at about 5pm Jan 31, 2009, we left aup 8am monday jan 26, 2009.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Thursday, November 8, 2007
What happened to your internet [community internet X 09163187253][winwin's internet services]?
long but good story
in three words: AUP acquired it.
in one paragraph: AUP bought it for [beep hehe] pesos with one year warranty on all electronics and a single-right-to-use the ISP software system i made. i then operated it for some months with all income directed to AUP and later merged it with the AUP Internet Services wired network.
put it in an enumerated longer story:
1)i experimented with overlengthed networking cables [1997]
1.2)computed internet services as not feasible[1998] in aup residential.
2)experimented with wifi [2001]. spent a lot. bleeding edge technology is expensive.
3)got SmartWIFI[SmartBro later] subscription [Oct 2005]
4)started sharing with housemates, to stop them from queueuing on my computer to check email.
5)started sharing free wifi to everyone in front of my apt. [2 months]
6)discovered that if it was free for all, the speed would be very slow, unusably slow
7)looked for ways to manage the sharing
8)experimented on collecting fees to refund hardware bought, computed fees at 300/month with breakeven at the end of warranty dates.
9)raised fees to 500/month as to accelerate equipment acquisitions and network expansion
10)disclosed network activity to AUP HR, stating that the technology is new and i couldn't give a sensible proposal because it was just my experiment, and that i would go on and capture as much clients and later turn-over everything [including expenses] to AUP when the technology is established and the business is sure and when the school is ready for it.
11)learned a lot in dealing with clients
12)got to know a lot of people, mostly all of the students who have laptops and pcs
13)collection and billing became a problem that couldn't be solved with monowall or mac filters
14)experimenting with monowal, nocat, pfsense, etc... and not getting the functionality i needed
15)developed my own ISP software with features
> 1. want to limit bandwidth for each IP, 2.detect mac address changes, 3. try to detect browser changes, 4. try to
> detect reinstalls, 5. limit number or connetions per ip, 6. try to hide
> clients from each other, 7. show everyone a welcome screen / login screen
> (captive portal) if they're not logged-in, 8. give people logins, 9. give
> clients access from this date to this date with associated load
> amount, 10. assign bandwidth depending on the type of load, 11. have a list of
> people who have load, 12. list of people who don't have load, 13. list of
> people sorted of total paid load, 13. optionally prevent accounts from
> being used in more than one computer, 14. aggregate bandwidth from
> multiple internet connetions, 15. scripts and circuitry to powercycle your
> hubs/switches/APs/routers when you can't ping some host, 16. make
> bandwidth from google faster than the rest, 17. config squid to double
> browsing throughput, 18. make some IP ports slow and some fast
16) then aup writes me a letter to stop, i write a letter back explaining
17) i get another letter to stop
18) i stop collecting on Jan 16, 2007. accounts that had load just remained working until their load expired.
18.5) got idea (from President) that school will use my equipment, and inquiry on the price
19) submit a proposal for the "transfer to aup"
20) proposal yes'ed by internet and website committee [led by sir balbuena, members sir bosito, me, sir shem pasamba, sir sonny batocabe, sir johny guyo]
21) wait wait wait, lost hope, just forgot all about it
22) sir balbuena comes to aolis and ask for discount, i remove some equipment in the list (the ladder, the ups) and lower the price. (it is their job to ask for discount)
23) gets aproval. i tell them i can't turn over unless i'm sure of payment, they say hehehe ok. because most of what i'm selling is intellectual property, and if you show IP, then you're not selling anything anymore.
24) they give me a check for half [april 26, 2007] i resume collecting but give all collection to cashier.
25) redirect all collection to cashier, loading accounts from receipts
26) connect to AUP residential network
27) terminate smartbro connection [may 11, 2007]
28) check for other half of came about june 2007
notes:
a)AUP's actions towards us on this case was of linience, overlooking our offenses, delaying action, pretending they didn't know, verifying firsthand, and in the end very accomodating, absolutely redemptive, and fair. in this issue, i saw God in them (Pastor Saban, Sir Borromeo, Sir Balbuena, Sir Bosito, Adcom).
b)other people operating internet shops were asked to transfer to the dormitories and pay rent [this is to give opportunity to spouses of workers who were not employed]
c)money is temporary, it's the experience
in three words: AUP acquired it.
in one paragraph: AUP bought it for [beep hehe] pesos with one year warranty on all electronics and a single-right-to-use the ISP software system i made. i then operated it for some months with all income directed to AUP and later merged it with the AUP Internet Services wired network.
put it in an enumerated longer story:
1)i experimented with overlengthed networking cables [1997]
1.2)computed internet services as not feasible[1998] in aup residential.
2)experimented with wifi [2001]. spent a lot. bleeding edge technology is expensive.
3)got SmartWIFI[SmartBro later] subscription [Oct 2005]
4)started sharing with housemates, to stop them from queueuing on my computer to check email.
5)started sharing free wifi to everyone in front of my apt. [2 months]
6)discovered that if it was free for all, the speed would be very slow, unusably slow
7)looked for ways to manage the sharing
8)experimented on collecting fees to refund hardware bought, computed fees at 300/month with breakeven at the end of warranty dates.
9)raised fees to 500/month as to accelerate equipment acquisitions and network expansion
10)disclosed network activity to AUP HR, stating that the technology is new and i couldn't give a sensible proposal because it was just my experiment, and that i would go on and capture as much clients and later turn-over everything [including expenses] to AUP when the technology is established and the business is sure and when the school is ready for it.
11)learned a lot in dealing with clients
12)got to know a lot of people, mostly all of the students who have laptops and pcs
13)collection and billing became a problem that couldn't be solved with monowall or mac filters
14)experimenting with monowal, nocat, pfsense, etc... and not getting the functionality i needed
15)developed my own ISP software with features
> 1. want to limit bandwidth for each IP, 2.detect mac address changes, 3. try to detect browser changes, 4. try to
> detect reinstalls, 5. limit number or connetions per ip, 6. try to hide
> clients from each other, 7. show everyone a welcome screen / login screen
> (captive portal) if they're not logged-in, 8. give people logins, 9. give
> clients access from this date to this date with associated load
> amount, 10. assign bandwidth depending on the type of load, 11. have a list of
> people who have load, 12. list of people who don't have load, 13. list of
> people sorted of total paid load, 13. optionally prevent accounts from
> being used in more than one computer, 14. aggregate bandwidth from
> multiple internet connetions, 15. scripts and circuitry to powercycle your
> hubs/switches/APs/routers when you can't ping some host, 16. make
> bandwidth from google faster than the rest, 17. config squid to double
> browsing throughput, 18. make some IP ports slow and some fast
16) then aup writes me a letter to stop, i write a letter back explaining
17) i get another letter to stop
18) i stop collecting on Jan 16, 2007. accounts that had load just remained working until their load expired.
18.5) got idea (from President) that school will use my equipment, and inquiry on the price
19) submit a proposal for the "transfer to aup"
20) proposal yes'ed by internet and website committee [led by sir balbuena, members sir bosito, me, sir shem pasamba, sir sonny batocabe, sir johny guyo]
21) wait wait wait, lost hope, just forgot all about it
22) sir balbuena comes to aolis and ask for discount, i remove some equipment in the list (the ladder, the ups) and lower the price. (it is their job to ask for discount)
23) gets aproval. i tell them i can't turn over unless i'm sure of payment, they say hehehe ok. because most of what i'm selling is intellectual property, and if you show IP, then you're not selling anything anymore.
24) they give me a check for half [april 26, 2007] i resume collecting but give all collection to cashier.
25) redirect all collection to cashier, loading accounts from receipts
26) connect to AUP residential network
27) terminate smartbro connection [may 11, 2007]
28) check for other half of came about june 2007
notes:
a)AUP's actions towards us on this case was of linience, overlooking our offenses, delaying action, pretending they didn't know, verifying firsthand, and in the end very accomodating, absolutely redemptive, and fair. in this issue, i saw God in them (Pastor Saban, Sir Borromeo, Sir Balbuena, Sir Bosito, Adcom).
b)other people operating internet shops were asked to transfer to the dormitories and pay rent [this is to give opportunity to spouses of workers who were not employed]
c)money is temporary, it's the experience
How was your [Linux] seminar [at De La Salle Canlubang Nov 07, 2007]
It was great!
Gem, Allan, Rudolf came along.
We [the flinstones van] parked at a sloped place at paseo so, battery dead, needed to pushstart, hehe.
Then we met Cedric near the tricycles, he knew us as i was bringing a laptop [without bag].
Waited for the 11am shuttle going to De La Salle Canlubang.
While waiting talked with cedric.
dlsc has cs, im, ece, coe, no nursing, tuition about 40k+ per term (trimester).
im 1 student in their batch. cs ~20 students in their batch. dlsc is aobut 5 years old only. there's an airconditioning fee.
Davo came riding a tricycle from aup just as we were about to board the shuttle.
Shuttle was L300 van, driver drove fast. Driver wearing barong.
The school was nice and big. large organized parking area, and many cars [i saw more cars than people, hehe].
Saw a Yamaha center (maybe a shop, a display center, or something else).
elevator to 4th/3th floor.
The auditorium seats about 200, on the topmost floor, aircon, yamaha speakers.
waited.
The first two speakers Dennis Billano and Dwight Herrera, senior cs students related their experiences from OJT in a small company in alabang and in a big company in mandaluyong [accenture].
Looks like there's no uniform in this school, this is cool.
My turn, setupped laptop with LCD. while booting ubuntu, said "Good morning, what we'll do know is i'm going to pretend you don't know anything about linux. smile."
"sino mga cs dito?". almost everyone raised their hand. they're not shy, good. hehe
"sino IM?". only one girl raised her hand, smile as everyone did too.
"ok i'm a kind of person who has a lot of experiments and experience with linux and that's what i'm trying to share today with you..."
then we went on with the presentation i prepared 2 years ago, hehe, with updates, and some outdated information [some students pointed out later].
"sino nakatry ng linux?" about three raised hands, aha, i'm not alone, hehe.
observations while speaking: 1)their teacher, a lady, kept on knodding and smiling in reaction to many things i was saying, found out later she taught in UPLB!!! kaya pala. UPLB is AFAIK the hardest CS school in the philippines. she knows sir ton [daniel] pamintuan, but he was not her student daw -- which means she was teaching -- which means she has a MSCS from UPLB or another school UPLB people respect.
2)some students were leaning forward, a sign of deep interest maybe
3)some students were reacting positively like they were agreeing on what i was saying
i forgot my notes. i made notes the day before, about keyboard shortcuts in compizfusion. so ended up just demoing the tricks i remembered, rotating cube, ringrotate, and another switcher [which the audience reacted to as "iphone", hehehe].
compiz-fusion got a whooaaa reaction.
i had a picture of my friend [the last lady i was trying to court, but didn't work out] in the "universe" of compizfusion, and while rotating the triangle cube the audience saw the pix and ahhhhhhhh uyyyyyy'ed, hehe. i quickly brushed it off to keep them curious. hehe
About the content of the presentation:
1) i was saying about half of the content of the other slides while showing a different slide, hehe. unsynchronized presentation. the slides weren't up to how the environment should be, that's why.
2) about 40% of what was said wasn't in any of the slides
3) forgot to tell them about gnokii, and many other things. anyway, it was about just an introduction
after the presentation, the adviser and the organizer thanks us with some gift in a green box [green is de la salle's color, probably]. then invites us to lunch, i tell them i have a problem because i'm a vegetarian. we check out the caf menu, there's nothing there for me. sorry. saw many koreans in the caf. also many upper class students, probably. so the organizers decide to take us out to Rose&Grace for lunch. We ride in the mercedez of one of the senior students. chit-chat in rose&grace, i was seating with the two other speakers.
"nag lilinux din kau sa school? or kanya-kanya lang?" "kanya-kanya lang sir."
"may nalimutan akong sabihin kanina, gnokii, gnu nokia interface" "anung spelling sir, ok to may bagong paglalaruan, hehe".
the presenation will be posted later in:
http://www.aup.edu.ph/aolis/wingp/linuxseminar/linuxseminarpart1.sxi [oppenoffice format]
http://www.aup.edu.ph/aolis/wingp/linuxseminar/linuxseminarpart1.ppt [powerpoint format]
my reaction:
1)learned a lot, how school runs
2)inspired by them having a MSCS teacher
3)inspired that students can drive mercedez to school
4)inspired by so many nice things that i saw there, the school is new so equipment and infrastructure are all impressive.
Gem, Allan, Rudolf came along.
We [the flinstones van] parked at a sloped place at paseo so, battery dead, needed to pushstart, hehe.
Then we met Cedric near the tricycles, he knew us as i was bringing a laptop [without bag].
Waited for the 11am shuttle going to De La Salle Canlubang.
While waiting talked with cedric.
dlsc has cs, im, ece, coe, no nursing, tuition about 40k+ per term (trimester).
im 1 student in their batch. cs ~20 students in their batch. dlsc is aobut 5 years old only. there's an airconditioning fee.
Davo came riding a tricycle from aup just as we were about to board the shuttle.
Shuttle was L300 van, driver drove fast. Driver wearing barong.
The school was nice and big. large organized parking area, and many cars [i saw more cars than people, hehe].
Saw a Yamaha center (maybe a shop, a display center, or something else).
elevator to 4th/3th floor.
The auditorium seats about 200, on the topmost floor, aircon, yamaha speakers.
waited.
The first two speakers Dennis Billano and Dwight Herrera, senior cs students related their experiences from OJT in a small company in alabang and in a big company in mandaluyong [accenture].
Looks like there's no uniform in this school, this is cool.
My turn, setupped laptop with LCD. while booting ubuntu, said "Good morning, what we'll do know is i'm going to pretend you don't know anything about linux. smile."
"sino mga cs dito?". almost everyone raised their hand. they're not shy, good. hehe
"sino IM?". only one girl raised her hand, smile as everyone did too.
"ok i'm a kind of person who has a lot of experiments and experience with linux and that's what i'm trying to share today with you..."
then we went on with the presentation i prepared 2 years ago, hehe, with updates, and some outdated information [some students pointed out later].
"sino nakatry ng linux?" about three raised hands, aha, i'm not alone, hehe.
observations while speaking: 1)their teacher, a lady, kept on knodding and smiling in reaction to many things i was saying, found out later she taught in UPLB!!! kaya pala. UPLB is AFAIK the hardest CS school in the philippines. she knows sir ton [daniel] pamintuan, but he was not her student daw -- which means she was teaching -- which means she has a MSCS from UPLB or another school UPLB people respect.
2)some students were leaning forward, a sign of deep interest maybe
3)some students were reacting positively like they were agreeing on what i was saying
i forgot my notes. i made notes the day before, about keyboard shortcuts in compizfusion. so ended up just demoing the tricks i remembered, rotating cube, ringrotate, and another switcher [which the audience reacted to as "iphone", hehehe].
compiz-fusion got a whooaaa reaction.
i had a picture of my friend [the last lady i was trying to court, but didn't work out] in the "universe" of compizfusion, and while rotating the triangle cube the audience saw the pix and ahhhhhhhh uyyyyyy'ed, hehe. i quickly brushed it off to keep them curious. hehe
About the content of the presentation:
1) i was saying about half of the content of the other slides while showing a different slide, hehe. unsynchronized presentation. the slides weren't up to how the environment should be, that's why.
2) about 40% of what was said wasn't in any of the slides
3) forgot to tell them about gnokii, and many other things. anyway, it was about just an introduction
after the presentation, the adviser and the organizer thanks us with some gift in a green box [green is de la salle's color, probably]. then invites us to lunch, i tell them i have a problem because i'm a vegetarian. we check out the caf menu, there's nothing there for me. sorry. saw many koreans in the caf. also many upper class students, probably. so the organizers decide to take us out to Rose&Grace for lunch. We ride in the mercedez of one of the senior students. chit-chat in rose&grace, i was seating with the two other speakers.
"nag lilinux din kau sa school? or kanya-kanya lang?" "kanya-kanya lang sir."
"may nalimutan akong sabihin kanina, gnokii, gnu nokia interface" "anung spelling sir, ok to may bagong paglalaruan, hehe".
the presenation will be posted later in:
http://www.aup.edu.ph/aolis/wingp/linuxseminar/linuxseminarpart1.sxi [oppenoffice format]
http://www.aup.edu.ph/aolis/wingp/linuxseminar/linuxseminarpart1.ppt [powerpoint format]
my reaction:
1)learned a lot, how school runs
2)inspired by them having a MSCS teacher
3)inspired that students can drive mercedez to school
4)inspired by so many nice things that i saw there, the school is new so equipment and infrastructure are all impressive.
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