USE AN ON DEMAND COMMUNITY SOLUTION OR ACTIVITY KIT AND REQUEST A COMMUNITY GRANT! 

Have you volunteered with a non-profit organization or school this year? You may be eligible to receive one or two IBM Community Grants!! Community Grants provide cash or IBM products to eligible community organizations and schools where IBM employees and retirees are actively volunteering. This is your chance to support the non-profit or school that you care about!!

To begin, go to the IBM On Demand Community website and ‘sign in’. If you don’t have an IBM ID and Password, you will need to ‘register’ and create one. Once you sign in, you are ready to go.

This Centennial year there are enhanced grantoptions to receive even more cash for the non-profit or school where you volunteer! Use one of almost 200 On Demand Community Solutions or Activity Kits to leverage your volunteer time to the fullest and receive more cash or equipment for your non-profit. 

Ready to apply for a grant? It’s easy!

• Log your volunteer hours at the On Demand Community site by clicking ‘Track hours’ in the left-hand navigation area. This is a mandatory requirement for a grant.
• Determine which grant category fits your volunteerism (see Celebration of Service Grants). Be sure to review the eligibility details for the grant. The following grant categories and grant values are available to IBM employee and retiree volunteers this year:
  Award categories:
  • Individual (40+ hours)
  • Team (100 hours total with 3+people)
  • Team – 25 people (at least 13 IBM employees and/or retirees, no hour requirement)
  • Team – 50 people (at least 25 IBM employees and/or retirees, no hour requirement)

Award values:

• Individual without solution $500 cash (USD) or 1 IBM product (not including Young Explorer)
• Individual with solution $1000 cash (USD) or 2 products (maximum of 1 Young Explorer unit)
• 100 hours without solution $1000 cash (USD) or 1 product (may include Young Explorer)
• 100 hours with solution $1500 cash (USD) or 2 products (maximum of 1 Young Explorer unit)
• 25 people without solution $2000 cash (USD) or 3 products (maximum of 2 Young Explorer units)
• 25 people with solution $3000 cash (USD) or 4 products (maximum of 3 Young Explorer units)
• 50 people without solution $4000 cash (USD) or 4 products (maximum of 2 Young Explorer units)
• 50 people with solution $5000 cash (USD) or 5 products (maximum of 3 Young Explorer units)
• Apply for a Community Grant, under ‘How to apply.’ This can be foundat the bottom of the Community Grant page (https://www-01.ibm.com/ibm/ondemandcommunity/grants/communitygrant.wss)as a link directly to the application. You will need your IBM serial number when applying for a grant. The application should take less than 30 minutes to complete.Note:For each grant, you’ll need:
• 501(c)3 form from the non-profit (not required for a public school)
• Signed Affirmation of Compliance form
• For cash grants, a budget which meets or exceeds the dollar amount for which you are applyingIf you need assistance, please click on the ‘Contact us’ link in the left- hand navigator of the On Demand Community site to find your local grant administrator.*NOTE: During the Centennial year, IBM employees and retirees are eligible for one individual Community grant and one Team Community grant. Recipient organizations are eligible for only one Community grant.***DON’T MISS OUT!!!! Apply today! The grant program closes at the end of September!***

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Tom Trotter, Debbie Hurst and John Young

 

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IBMers and Retired IBMers
July 5, 2011 to August 5, 2011
Sam’s Club in Irving (1213 Market Place, Irving TX 75063)
10:00am to 8:00pm

Join or renew today and start saving with a $20 gift card!

Membership Annual Fee: Advantage $40.00; Plus Advantage $100.00

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Here are two additional articles about the IBM Centennial from The Economist. Because the articles are fairly lengthy, I’m including only the links and the titles in this message.

IBM:  1100100 and Counting
www.economist.com/node/18803123

IBM’s Centenary:  The Test of Time
www.economist.com/node/18805483

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Event title: Tuesday Golf League 2011 – Dallas/Fort Worth

Date: Tue 19 Apr 2011 through August (18 weeks)

Time: 5:00 p.m.



Event short description: Tuesday Night Golf League (9 holes) – Grapevine GC, Grapevine, Texas

Event description: 9 hole league comprised of 2-person teams competing weekly for 18 week season – mid-April through August. Open to all (IBMers and non-IBMers) golfers (no beginners please). Tee times start at 5:00 PM each Tuesday evening.

Event cost description: Prepaid season fee of $385 per player includes weekly green fees and prizes.

Sign-up eligibility: IBM Employees, Retirees, Spouses/partners, Families, Guests

Sign-up status: Open

Sign-up comments: For more information and/or to sign up contact John Aulbach (jraulbach@gmail.com).

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XEROX IS DOING SOMETHING COOL 
  
If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com  you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can’t pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services. 
  
How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!!    It is FREE and it only takes a second. 
  
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these?    Whether you are for or against the war, our soldiers over there need to know we are behind them. 
  
This takes just 10 seconds and it’s a wonderful way to say thank you.    Please take the time and please take the time to pass it on for others to do.  We can never say enough thank you’s. 
  
Thanks for taking to time to support our military!

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Manufacture of servers a big boon for the IBM Rochester campus

 

Tuesday (Aug. 17) was a big day for Big Blue’s Rochester, MN campus as IBM rolled out a number of new computer servers to round out its new Power7 Systems line.

While the high-end IBM Power 795 server led the announcement, four new mid-sized servers being manufactured in Rochester were also introduced.

“It is a big deal for the Rochester site,” said Ian Jarman, Power Systems software manager. “More than 50 percent of the Rochester team were involved in the development, manufacturing, software and marketing of the Power7 Systems.”

IBM spent about $3.2 billion creating the Power7 line over the last three and half years, said Jarman. The first Power7 computers came out in February and these latest servers complete the product line.

“We’re delivering these ahead of schedule,” he said. The first of the mid-sized servers — the Express 710, 720, 730 and 740 — are expected to start shipping to customers on Sept. 17.

The Express servers, priced at about $6,000 each, target small companies, schools, government agencies and similar customers.

Like other Power7 computers, the Express servers can run three types of operating systems software — UNIX, Linux or IBM’s i. However, it is the last of those three that most mid-sized server customers use.

Over the years, rumors of a phase-out of the i operating system have surfaced regularly. That’s of particular interest locally, since the operating system is based completely in Rochester.

“Today’s announcement and the entire Power7 Systems show a very clear commitment to the i operating system by IBM,” Jarman said.

IBM released a new version of the software in April. That, along with incorporating it into the Power7 Systems line, has assured that it is not being used only on older legacy computers systems, he said.

“IBM’s i clients are delighted to be in the mainstream,” said Jarman.

The Express servers were only one part of Tuesday’s extensive Power7 additions.

Topping the list was a new high-end server, the IBM Power 795.

With 256 Power7 cores, it offers about four times the performance of IBM’s previous server in that category.

Big Blue also introduced two new software products Tuesday — a new version of IBM’s UNIX operating system called AIX 7 as well as a workload-optimized Smart Analytics System that helps businesses draw real-time information from massive amounts of data.

Overall, Jarman said the Power7 announcements signaled strong growth by the company in various markets, including UNIX servers and the valuable mid-sized server market.

“This is an IBM announcement with a strong Rochester element. It continues to demonstrate that Rochester is integrated very well with the broader IBM,” he said.”It also demonstrates that when IBM talks about its Smarter Planet initiative, Rochester is right in center of this initiative with our systems, servers and people.”

by Jeff Kiger, The Post-Bulletin

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This article is an excellent follow-up to the earlier information about the insider trading scandal concerning ex-IBMer Robert Moffat. Thank you to Steve Salavarria for providing the following link:

http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/06/news/companies/ibm_insider_trading.fortune/index.htm

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