NEWSBEAT

Newsletter of the Diploma in Office Management Technology Students

Volume 1, Issue 1 JuneOctober 2012

Software Freedom Day 2012 on its 2nd year in PUP Quezon City
This year the DOMT.Cs organized its 2nd year celebration of the Software Freedom Day (SFD). SFD is an annual international celebration for Software Freedom. Every year there are thousands of teams organizing Software Freedom Day in different countries and cities. In the Philippines, there are about twenty four (24) officially registered in the wiki teamlist organizations from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao regions. The DOMT.Cs represented by Ms. Jomalyn V. Tiletile as its SFD Philippines Team Leader organized the event here in PUP-Quezon City campus. SFD was celebrated through series of discussion and breakout sessions with the following topics on Ubuntu Operating System, The speakers were Efren D. Montales Jr. from Ubuntu Philippines, Melchor Q. Compendido from Mozilla Phillippines, Gener Luis Morada from Ascent Network Solutions Inc., Jefferson A. Costales from Mary the Queen College of Pampanga & an IBM ce rti f i e d programmer, and Roque S. Morales from Institute of Comparative and A d v a n c e d Studies. The 250 participants were clustered into five groups so they can focus on each discussion and questions were accommodated and addressed even better. The event was also sponsored by Mozilla Philippines, Quezon City Office, Convergys and ICAS Phils.

Web Browsing Using Mozilla Firefox, FOSS Program m i ng Sof tware s, Google Applications and FOSS in Schools Today.

2nd & 3rd Year DOMT Students as Volunteer Staffs in the 1st Heal-om Festival in the Country
It was fun and another meaningful experience for the OMT students when they volunteered in an activity held last October 14 at Whitespace, Makati City. Heal-om Festival is the first of its kind in the country and was participated by more than 100 organizations (private and public sector as well as other non profit organizations. Different topics were discussed including alternative medicine and process of healing the mind, body and soul. They were asked to help ushering, assisting, maintaining order and function as staff to man the event. The festival was lead by Ms. Marina Monina M. Flores. The event was also featured in several radio stations, TFC cable and ABS-CBN.

Article Contributors: Jomalyn V. Tiletile Graciel S. Roberto Ma. Marietta B. Lopez Rachelle C. Reyes Janine Castro Artist: Jerrber A. Ferrer Graphic Artist Adviser: Adviser Prof Sheryl R. Morales

Claudine and David as they orient the DOMT.Cs volunteers together with some students of De La Salle University an hour before the Heal-om Event starts.
Jerrber Ferrer, DOMT 3-1 while being interviewed by a De La Salle professor on what Ubuntu opera ting system is.

DOMT students in their flag banner parade during the opening activity for the Heal-om event.

DOMT.Cs First General Assembly

A total of one h undred ninety t w o (192) s t u dents of the Diploma in Office Management Technology from 1st year to 3rd year gathered and hold their First General Assembly last July 14. The officers discussed the Vision, Mission and Values of the organization, its upcoming activities as well as solicited some suggestions from the rest of the students. Also, the organization shirt was shown which will be used during events of the org.- Last July 25, the Supreme Student Council organized Freshmen Orientation for PUPQCs new students. Here, the DOMT.Cs was introduced as the official student organization for the Diploma in Office Management Technology students. Officers lead by Ms. Jomalyn V. Tiletile were presented to the PUPQC community. The rest of the five major student orgs are: COMMITS, F B T O , JMS, D Innovators.

Feature Story...

Start of Something New

the major student organizations in the campus. The DOMT.Cs will provide additional learning opportunities to students of Diploma in Office Management Technology w/ specialization in Medical Office Technology. Within few months time, DOMT.Cs put great effort in fulfilling the mission of the organization. As a matter of fact when you type the word DOMT.Cs in any search engine such as Google and Mozilla firefox the first top search is all about The official logo of the DOMT.Cs t h e student organization DOMT.Cs previous activities. Its not only you who knows about the works of DOMT.Cs but the world knows it! Not bad for Newbies.congratulations.

The fruit of hard labor, that is what best describes the Distinguished Office Management Technologist and Corporate specialist (DOMT.Cs) had become. DOMT students finally had more flexibility to achieve their dreams in a less worry feeling. Thanks to PUPQC administration thru the help of Prof. Irynne P. Gatchalian, head of Student Affairs. The DOMT.Cs is now officially recognized as one of

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