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We had a very informative Session on Employment based immigration process with Immigration Lawyer Nita Ichaporia and Immigration Voice representative Bharati. Nita went over H1-B's, EB 1-3 based GC applications, country limits, portability issues, etc in the first half followed by Q&A. Bharati talked about the bills being drafted on comprehensive immigration reform from the pespective of legal Employment based immigration and how it impacts EB based appications from India and China. The audience went home with most of their questions answered.

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"Is there a consensus from the individual groups represented on the panel – the Indian, French, German, Chinese and Hispanic – of what the essence of leadership means?" The answer from the panel was a resounding "YES." Regardless of nationality, a leader is viewed as "someone who can inspire others." This was only a snippet of the dialogue on Thursday, March 23 at the event entitled "Leadership in a Multi-Cultural World," moderated by Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-chief of Red Herring.

Over 200 attendees spanning all industries descended upon our host, SAP, to network and listen to esteemed panelists share their thoughts on leadership, each adding the unique perspective of their ethnic group. Gautam Godhwani, as envoy for Indian culture, stole some of the attention by charismatically sharing his insights into the impact of ethnicity on the global war for top professional talent. Gautam also shared his experience on the impact of ethnicity in business from his viewpoint as a successful entrepreneur.

This event was the first of its kind; symbolizing a coalition of six separate organizations joining forces to host an insightful professional event. The groups represented included the Silicon French, German American Business Association, Chinese Software Professionals Association, Hispanic Net, Network of Indian Professionals and the Silicon Valley Indian Professional Association. The event started by commentary about the "true diversity that this single event represented."

For more details and information about upcoming events, feel free to contact sheila@netip.org or professional@netip-sfba.org

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Reprsentatives from H&R block went over tax saving tips relevant to Indian professionals. This event was free for members and part of monthy series from NetIP-SFBA.

Please email [email] professional@netip-sfba.org[/email] with your suggestions on what events you would like to see NetIP organise.

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We had a our first round of elections for the 2006 Board at Southern Spice Bistro in Mountain View on 22nd Oct. Around 22 NetIP members participated. We filled in 6 out of 16 positions in the 2006 NetIP-SFBA board. The following people were elected

Co-Chair : Ritesh
Community Service : Seshu and Ranjani
Membership : Arathi
Marketing : Sheila S
Corp Sponsorship : Sandeep

The following positions are open in the 2006 NetIP Board: Co-Chair, Treasurer, National Liasion, Sports, Social, Professional, Communications. Contact co-chair@netip-sfba.org if you are interested in any of these open positions. Click here for description on these positions, election procedure and application form.

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Google sponsored this professional meet at Arts India Gallery in Palo Alto. Representatives from Google where present to hire for positions in India and Switzerland. About 90 people showed up for this event.

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This is the NetIP event with SAAFA. One week before the Oscars, we had a screening of Little Terrorist. Ashwin Kumar was present, and gave a brilliant Q&A

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We had set up a donation booth at Bollywood Nights party at Forum. NetIP volunteers did a fantastic job in raising awareness to support the relief effort at New Orleans. We raised around $250 at the event.

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Always enthusiastic and dedicated, NetIP volunteers arrived as early as 6.15am to help ILP mark the course and setup for the race.

We had 14 volunteers help with ILP tasks -- course marking and monitoring, food, general assistance while 9 others helped at NetIP's Donor Drive. We signed 64 donors in about two-and-a-half hours, a very productive drive indeed!

More on donor drives: http://www.netip-sfba.org/community/donor_main.htm

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What's the best way to sort a gazillion cans of food?! Is a can of pumpkin a vegetable, fruit, or meal in a can?

These were some challenges NetIP-SFBA volunteers faced at this FUN community event. We sorted 20+ barrels of cans, rice, food, fruits, cereal and more into major categories -- fruit, vegetables, meal in a can, sodas, tuna and more. We were treated to chips and sodas at the end of the event. (the pumpkin can usually ended up in the miscelaneous category).

Thanks to Niru for taking the lead on this event.

Upcoming Community events: http://www.netip-sfba.org/groups/community

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Didn't think NetIP members make good cooks?! Then you should have seen our very own volunteers, complete in their disposable aprons, hairnets and gloves, as they raced to make meals for the homeless!

Two groups set out to make peanut butter and chicken and meat sandwiches and then pack these in paper bags with candies, mustard and other goodies. A perfect way to way to give back to our community -- one sandwich at a time -- on a Saturday morning! Don't miss the next one...

Thanks to Venkat for taking the lead to organize this event.

Upcoming Community events: http://www.netip-sfba.org/groups/community

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On Dec. 3, we closed the year with a high-energy dinner and dance party in Mountain View. The celebration of NetIP SFBA included a raffle, a 2005 Board of Directors slide presentation, and live performances by Dholrhythms, a leading bhangra dance troupe, and Antariksh, a "pop/rock with a Hindi twist" band whose performance packed the venue. Many attendees received major discounts on 2006 membership as NetIP SFBA celebrated its 10th anniversary at the party.

2005 Members can renew their membership at 50% discount till 12/31/05. New members use the discount code 'GoNetIPSFBA' to get $20 off membership by clicking on membership tab at NetIP-SFBA main page

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We had a fun filled social fundraiser at The Atrium in San Francisco.

In light of the severe earthquake tragedies in South Asia, NetIP SFBA has established an online fund to help survivors. Please spread the word that NetIP will match the first $5000 of donations. We will give all donations and proceeds from the social to charities doing groundwork in Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.

Donate generously to NetIP-SFBA Charitable Foundation's Earthquake Relief Fund

All contributions to the NetIP SFBA Charitable Foundation are tax-deductable. The Foundation is a registered 501c(3) organization, tax ID number 01-0794427.

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We had a fun BBQ potluck by the poolside in Moutain View. About 20 people and a bird showed up. Enjoy the pics

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We celebrated a successful Yosemite trip with games, music, food, chai and bonfire at Ocean beach. Some of the folks stayed on till 3:30am!

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We had a fun evening starting off with Hot Salsa Lesson by Jimmy from Jsmoothsalsa.com followed by fantabulous bollywood, hiphop and house remixes by DJ Andy Atta. We raised $700 for Kanisha's Leukemia treamtment from ticket sales for this event.

More on Kanisha Memorial Fund: http://www.netip-sfba.org/groups/community/kanisha.htm

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32 people attended this fun trip. Trip hightlights:
- 13 people hiked up Half dome
- 18 folks opted for Nevada Falls/ Vernal Falls
- A lucky few got to see 'moonbow' on full moon night at lower yosemite falls at 1am
- Most of us drove to Glacier Point on Sunday for great views of the valley.
- Few of us concluded the trip with delicious dinner at Shalimar after 2 nites of pizza :)

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Sixteen people showed up for the hike. We were initially planning to hike up the hill overlooking the ocean but the fog was really dense in the morning and we could hardly see the ocean. By popular vote we decided to hike up to the summit instead. On the way back, the Sun had come out and the fog had cleared up.
A small group of hardy hikers decided to also go up the hill that we were initially planning to climb, the "second summit".

It was a great hike!
Here are some more pics.

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We had a fun time bike riding in the gorgeous Napa/ Calistoga Valley. 14 of us started from the Bike rental shop at Yountville at 9:30 am. Our plan was to do split into two groups with one group riding a 30 mile relaxed loop whilethe other group rides upto Calistoga and back. However, plans changed midway and everyone wanted to go to Calistoga to check out the scenery. We started off on busy Hwy 29. The bike lane on 29 even though wide is not very smooth for road bikes. We then cut off the Silverado trail on shady 128. Silverado trail is essentially a less busier road with rolling flattish hills with vineyards on both sides. Due to natural differences in pace, the group split into many smaller groups on Silverado trail. The first group reached beautiful Calistoga downtown at noon. The other group got delayed due to tire flats! We had 6 flat tires in the whole trip and we ran out of kits to fix the flats on the way back! We had lunch at a pizza place in dt Calistoga owned by an Indian!

On the way back some guys took Silverdo trail and the rest went down on Hwy 29 again to be greeted with great views, traffic and tire flats! We were stuck 2 miles south of Calistoga on 29 due to a flat as we ran out of kits to fix it. It was getting warmer with hot air breeze blowing at 10 -20 mph. The first set of people arrived back at the bike rental place at 3:30 pm, took some additional kits and drove to Calistoga to shuttle the last one standing as the bike shop closes at 5:00 pm. Everyone made it to the bike shop by 5pm: tired, drained, however, happy with a sense of accomplishment of riding 40 miles in the wine country. We ended the day with wine tastings at Chandon Vineyards.

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30 people participated in this fun whitewater rafting and camping trip at American River.
We left in carpools from bayarea saturday afternoon and reached the campsite by 5 pm.
Some of us played volleball after pitching the tents till sunset while others were busy preparing the food for dinner. We then had a gourmet dinner around the bonfire. We partied till almost 1am till we ran out of logs and the other L. We started our sunday with some warm Chai and Muffins thanks to Shaheen. Middle fork people left for rafting at 7:00 AM soon followed by the South folks folks.

We braved the tunnel chute (class 4+) and numerous rapids on the middlefork and got out fine and dandy. South fork folks had lots of fun in their full river run as well. Everyone was back in the campsite by 5PM. We cleaned and packed up and got back to bayarea by 8:00 PM. Some of us went for some awesome Paki food at Shalimar in Fremont.

Join us for 'Tour de Napa' on July 30th to be part of the excitement! Contact srini@netip-sfba.org

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We had quite a few new people on this challenging hike, 12 miles -3500ft and lots of sun! Fortunately we did not encounter any rattlesnakes on the trail where rattlesnakes sightings are quite routine. We started at 9:40 and finished by 4:30 pm.

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