History of the Current Site

It all started with Nabeel Sheikh (B9) in a moment of deep mediation promised to himself that despite who won the elections, he would work to improve the Alumni. As usual, he dragged me (hi!) into it as well. The elections finally came, the results were announced and to our shock, we didn’t make it in the executive council (well, I stepped down). Nabeel was devastated and in a fit of rage he swore to the Almighty that he would do even more for the Alumni. I was dragged in again.

So, Nabeel brought the idea of pimping up the GIKI Alumni website. Making it awesome, something like a Facebook-gmail-msn-yahoo-twitter-flickr-clone. I told him what every reluctant engineers tells management: what a fantastic idea. Of course, the problem was execution. How do we do it?

After this initial idea, I went into my cave and thought about how could we do all this. As luck would have it, I met the Great Gran-daddy of resnet, Abidoon (B8) himself. He has been running his company Mindblaze Technologies that worked in Social Media among other voodoo. Over the course of a few months, I chalked a plan out with Abidoon and we finally decided the best way to do all of this was to have it done professionally as opposed to whipping interns into doing it. The problem was funding. This was going to be expensive.

But then, two awesome things happened which demonstrate the power of the Alumni and our collective determination: Abidoon agreed to do the project at bare-cost. This brought the figure down significantly. This was momentous considering the current dire financial state in Pakistan. I took these figures and the plan to Nabeel Sheikh who in his typical shiekh-like fashion told me not to worry about the money (he’s been with Arabs far too long) and that he would finance all the amount if no one else stepped in. At the same time, I shared the idea with Ali Khattak (B9, secretary of the GIKI-AA) and he pledged to fill in the amount too.

We then proceeded to boil down all we wanted from the GIKIAlumni.com. We wanted it fast and we wanted it working. We created a road-map, deliberated over the features with the Executive Council and work started underway. Tughral assigned Waqas Burney (b14) to coordinate online activities with the old site and the new team.

The Executive Council

The Executive Body of GIKI Alumni Association would be happy to answer any query you may have about GIKIAA. You may also contact them for anything that you feel would help GIKI and its students. The Executive Body would like to hear from you to improve its functioning in general and to improve this GIKIAA Portal in particular.

Listing of current office bearers of the the Executive Council can be found here.

You can read the charter of GIKIAA here.