Streaming and IT people

This Agora will have, if computer goblins don't mess up with it, a streaming service for the whole network to see what is happening in the plenary room. I know this decission will make happy many people in Europe, and specially our president Manos and the Secretary of the Agora, Bea, who will also have a copy of the video to better make the minutes.

The exact link to the website will be announced in www.agoraalicante.org and it will allow direct participation via one of the popular social networks (to be decided which one). And there will be also some experienced AEGEE-people from our team with the main task of transmitting the special atmosphere to those of you who could not join us in Alicante, sending real time updates from the plenary room.

How is this possible? We have the support of University of Alicante and also a great team of people in charge of the IT department. Apart from Javi, Juanola, Antonio and Bene, they are:


Guille

He has been in charge of coordinating the team from the quiet city of Pavía, in Italy, where he is spending an unforgettable Erasmus year. He has even become Erasmus Responsible in AEGEE-Pavia! He will also be the Gym DJ, and he has already starting to collect music and sort it out according to different purposes: tender wake ups, hard core wake ups, dressing up for parties... He may give us also a surprise during the European Night.
He will hate me for finally writing a post about him, but he deserves it!



Gabriel

One of the fresh faces in our team, and directly coming from Murcia, he has been in charge of agreeing with the University of Alicante everything related to the video streaming and the wifi network that will be available during the Agora. One thing we have learned in this Agora: you never have too many IT guys in your team :) Moreover, he's always smiling and brings tons of positive energy into the team. He will always be around to solve any problem




Alberto

Another of the Murcia guys, he is always ready to be an organizer in AEGEE-Alicante's Summer University. Apart from supporting everyone else on the team, his speciality is the Spanish language course; our participants never have enough of  it, and sometimes he has had to prepare an extra session in record time to make them happy. If you attend the Spanish course on the Opening Day (Wednesday 27th) you may learn the basic secrets of our language in less than one hour.

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Ah, FYI it is raining already in Alicante for 3 days... See the forecast here.

Party Time!

Every Agora has its secrets: it is time to unveil the so-called Social Program! (updated on Aprul 22nd)

Wednesday 27th: PROM PARTY

Who has never dreamed on joining one of these Prom Parties that we have seen in so many TV series and high school movies? With its King and Queen of the party, the muscled quarterback, the nerd with the laboratory outfit, the gang of rappers, the hot Chair-leaders, and everybody nicely dressed (after the Opening Ceremony in a fancy auditorium, you will be already suited up). Of course, there will be surprises, we want this night to be special for you...

Thursday 28th: EUROPEAN NIGHT

Get ready the best gastronomy jewels of your region and share them with us! After the big success of Riga's European Night, we want to have another really cool-tural EN with your participation. We hope you have sent to the CWG detailed information on everything you have prepared: videos, songs, perfomances... I heard rumours there is also many surprises proposed! Of course, we invite you to wear your traditional costumes in order to have the most cultural, tasteful and European of the Agora Nights! European Nights will never be the same after 2011!

Friday 30th: SURPRISE PARTY

We know you will be all exhausted after the intensive program... So let us take care of everything for this party. We will make it unforgettable. Just trust in your dear organizers. Do you dare?

Saturday 30th: JUNGLE PARTY

Everybody loves Lia, we know you can help it. But we want you to show your you are a true Lía friend at the wildest party of the Agora. Join the pack, join the pride, be one of us! You will not enter the party without wearing animal print on your clothes, or a t-shirt with animals on it! The Agora T-shirt is an approved outfit, but we encourage you to be original and creative! Show us what is the animal you hide inside and get into the jungle with us!

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Celebrating AEGEE's 26th anniversary

AEGEE-Alicante has decided to celebrate the 26th anniversary of AEGEE-Europe in a very special way: after the whole day adjusting timetables for the Agora, we decided to leave the room and look far away from our screens to spend the evening at the opera, and we went to see "Madama Butterfly" (Puccini, 1904) at the new Alicante Auditorium (adda). AEGEE's birthday deserves something unique, so there we went!

For many of us it was the first time in that Auditorium, as it was inaugurated some weeks ago. And also for many of us it was the first opera. This is a bit of what we listened to.

It was a great opportunity to experience some technical details of the venue, as it will be the same location where we will held our Opening Ceremony for the Spring Agora Alicante 2011. We were checking how comfortable the seats are, how good the acoustic qualities are, where to place our assistants... We are still amazed because the impressiveness of the main room, where we will be able to enjoy the words of welcome to the Agora and also a Flamenco show. We still don't know what kind of show, as there are many kinds of Flamenco, but it could be something like this:

I would like to thank Diputación de Alicante (the Alicante province government and administration) for their support allowing us to use the new Auditorium.

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It's saturday! Party time!

After an(other) intensive afternoon meeting for the Agora, it is time to leave behind numbers and meals, exceptions and rules, and head to the city center for celebrating Silvia's birthday.

We'll have great fun during dinner, eat cake and dance like there is no tomorrow. Although we are all aware that tomorrow there will be... another meeting :D

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975

This is the number of applications we have received for our Agora. We lacked just 25 people to reach the magic number of 1000! But well, looking on the positive side, there will be then 25 people less that wil not have the chance to come to Agora Alicante. Because, my friends, there are just 700 places for participants, so this means that there is quite many people that we cannot have with us. No matter how much we would like to welcome you all here in Alicante, the capacity of our resources is limited and there is not much we can do. University of Alicante has already been really kind when giving us the posibility to use the Sport Center for hosting you.


Now, dear boards, don't forget to look at the list of applicants from your antenna, and rank them according to the following criteria:

Who can contribute more to the Agora?
Who will get more from the Agora?
Who deserves more to have the opportunity to come to the Agora?

Or just in one question... Who wants to come to the Agora? (and Who wants to come just to Alicante?)

Then, the Chair will have the unpleasant task to decide... so validate the applications ASAP and make their work easy!

EBM has finished... now it is Full Agora time!

We don't feel the pressure... now it is our time... we can do it...

The EBM has brilliantly concluded, and the EBM gir... EBM Team did a superb job! Not only they managed to provide AEGEE with a perfect framework for developing the programme, but they did also everything with a big smile on their faces! And even more, they were always available for us to answer questions (and believe me, we had many things to ask; Carol filled several pages of her Agora Notebook with ideas and details to check in detail once we arrive home). Also the CD, the chair team and AEGEE-Istanbul were always ready for discuss organization of the Agora, that will be open in 2 months!!

However, even us as Agora team deserved some rest after an extremely demanding EBM, so we took a day off to enjoy the city. When we will download the pictures. you will have details of how much we enjoyed the sunny Sunday in Riga. Now it is time to go to sleep... a bed in a nice hostel is waiting for us!

It was great to see you (those who could came to Riga) and feel all your support!!

                      The Agora Team

MISSION: Activate delegates

This is the title of the Workshop that people of SAA2011 Team is leading at this very same moment. We are gathering very motivated and active members contributing to the discussion with ideas and proposals, that we will take into account while organizing Agora Alicante as much as we can.

Now we are having an "Oxford Debate" debate on some of the most controversial ideas, like:

• Making attendance to Plennaries compulsory (part of Antenna Criteria)
• First event of any member should be fun / statutory event
• Number of delegates is linked to size of the antenna

What is your opinion on these topics?

Wanted: Flagship topics

In Spring Agora Valletta (2007) the Flagship Project Sustaining our Future was born... the first time AEGEE dealt on big scale on sustainable development and environmental topics.

In Spring MagusAgora, AEGEE decided to go Beyond Europe and chose a project that broadened our horizon.

What will be the topics proposed at Agora Alicante? Have you started thinking about possible ideas?