7. BITS Pilani Alumni Association (BITSAA) 501(C)(3) Registered in New Jersey, USA
80G Registered in Hyderabad, India
www.bitsaa.org
BITSAA Infrastructure Backbone
Overview
BITSAA Technology Team focuses on designing and implementing
efficient solutions for technical needs across BITSAA, and provide
all its teams with required infrastructural support to execute their
goals
Our input: The technical finesse of its members and sensible
technology solutions in the industry (and creative ideas of BITSAA
teams/initiatives).
Our output: Clean and smart technical tools to bring BITSAA
world-wide closer together.
Feel free to drop us a line at
tech-team@bitsaa.org
Shashank S
(‘06)
Single point of contact for …
•Set up an Event calendar for BITSAA Initiatives/chapters
•To update content on pages of the portal
•Setting up commerce options, Donations processing and
Invoice set up
•Technical support for
• BITS2Marathon
• BITS.aid
• Let’s Promote BITS-Pilani
• Scholarships
• 100% Placements for BITS-Pilani
What did we achieve? … To name a few
Launching the U.S. and Indian editions of the BITSAA International online eStore to make
available quality BITS-Pilani merchandise against order for BITSians.
Preparing quality guided tours to help members of the BITSAA teams and initiative/chapter
heads administrate the portal, member groups, content management and other backend
functions.
Supporting the Newsletter team by constantly publishing latest news items and BITSian success
stories on the portal. Setup an automated newsletter and Twitter Support.
Provisioned Faculty membership type to encourage BITS faculty members to join the portal.
Setting up a BITSAA Intranet portal for use of teams and all BITSAA Leaders.
Evaluated and Deployed a Global Conferencing Service for BITSAA Conference Calls. BITSAA
Leadership has spent a cumulative 40,000 minutes in Conference Calls over telephone and Skype
since April, 2009 for BITSAA initiatives & functioning.
Alumni Membership verification application that will enable chapter administrators and batch
administrators on the portal to verify membership requests into the BITSAA.org alumni directory.
At the Technology Team, we learn, we share and we implement, so that BITSAA members
anywhere, anytime can stay connected to each otherand to where it all began – BITS, Pilani.
Technology aids
•Portal Backend
* YourMembership.com
•Google Apps for Education
•Host Gator Linux web Hosting
8. BITS Pilani Alumni Association (BITSAA) 501(C)(3) Registered in New Jersey, USA
80G Registered in Hyderabad, India
www.bitsaa.org
BITSAA Infrastructure Backbone
Shashank S
(‘06)
13. www.bitsaa.org|
Alumni Communications
Social Media &
Blog
Liason with Media
Alumni Publications
We are the
Voice of BITSAA
Marketing enthusiasts, Social Media gurus, Grammar Nazis and BITSian ‘Shakespears’ - Join us to take brand
BITS to every nook and corner of the world.
Shoot an email to comms-team@bitsaa.org.
16. BITSAA Scholarships & Awards
www.bitsaa.org|
The Scholarships Team is
dedicated to help students
across all four BITS campuses
by providing them various
scholarships and programs,
instituted by the alumni –
MCN’s, Travel Scholarships,
0% Loans, Graduate
Application Scholarships, Air
Miles, Student Project Support
etc
We need your help in
increasing the impact of Alumni
funded scholarships. We have
many deserving students whom
we cannot help due to limited
funds!
Please reach out to us at scholarships-team@bitsaa,org if you would like to support our efforts
14 Lakh
worth scholarships given every year
“I come from a middle class. I still remember how excited I was when I scored well in
BITSAT & knew I had a chance to go to BITS. However looking at the fee structure,
I was worried that it would create an economic burden on my family. It was only
when a few seniors at BITS told me about the MCN scholarships at BITS that I
decided to join the institute.” - BITSAA MCN Scholarship Recipient
“This scholarship may have been my dream but it could not have been possible
without your active help, encouragement and making it easy for me. You are the
reason I recommend that giving back to BITS” - Donor
22. www.bitsaa.org
The global BITS-Pilani Alumni Community
501(C)(3) Registered in New Jersey, USA
80G Registered in Hyderabad, India
Career Center
Want to work on a product that helps BITSians make well-informed
career decisions?
Career CenterJoin
About Career Center:
Career Center was launched in January 2014 at BITSAA Global Meet after 6 months of development. We
are at an exciting stage now with focus on increasing user engagement and satisfaction and exploring
integration of more career support initiatives like higher education services and mentorship.
careercenter.bitsaa.org
Working in Career Center gives
•An opportunity to mix technical knowledge with management
•Ability to define one’s role and take ownership
•Experience working in a small start-up like team
•Great visibility across the BITSian community for the work you do
Create a global BITSAA Chapter Leadership Council
Chaired by Chairman of BITSAA International
A Vice Chairman nominated(Also a BITSAA Intl Trustee by default)
Chairman invites at most 6 Chapter Leaders from this Counil or their nominees on rotation to the BITSAA Board of Trustees for a 2 year term.
The Chapters Council will have representation from ALL Chapters. The role of this body – serve as counsel to the BITSAA Board for issues concerning BITSians, serve as both Thought-Leaders and Doers “guiding” BITSAA programs into deployment at Chapters, serve as an open forum for Chapter Leaders to discuss issues concerning BITSAA.
The total number of BITSAA Trustees on the BITSAA Board to not exceed 20. Defined Quorum = 11 (Always Including Chairman & CEO)
Chapter Leadership Group in place as a mailing list. Unused/Underutilised. Need to bring in structure.
This expansion will be a slow, considered development.
In future, BITSAA Intl. Board could also be fed by a Batch Leadership Council (shown in dotted lines)