[Campus-boston-summer-staff] next steps for the event!

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Mailing lists are usually our best bet (and sometimes facebook pages),
however emailing individual professors and asking them to reach out to
their students is also useful.

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Molly White <molly.white5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry! I'd be happy to send out the emails for NEU, but I'm afraid I don't
> know/have access to any of the CS lists... Ali, do you have any idea about
> how we could spread the word via email? I see on the mailing list that you
> sent a message to ACM and some CS professors -- I suppose I could try
> sending an email to some of my past CE professors...
>
> - Molly
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Replies are appreciated!  :)  Even if they are just, "Having a busy week,
>> will get to this on X date" or "Can you take care of Y, I'm too busy to."
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Here are the next steps towards making the June 22nd event as amazing as
>>> possible.
>>>
>>> *1)  Publicity!*
>>>
>>> The website should be ready (http://boston-summer.openhatch.org/)
>>> although feel free to give it another look over and request additional
>>> changes.
>>>
>>> We should start sending out emails to relevant lists.  Places to email
>>> include:
>>>
>>> - CS departments at NEU, BU, and other schools
>>> - CS clubs and organizations at NEU, BU, and other schools
>>> - non-CS departments/clubs/organizations at NEU, BU and other schools
>>>
>>> We (Asheesh and I) will take care of all of the "other schools"
>>> publicity, but if Ali or Molly (or another NEU person) could handle
>>> emailing NEU CS departments and clubs, and Christopher (or another BU
>>> person) could handle emailing BU CS departments and clubs, that would be
>>> fantastic.  If you can't, let us know and we'll do it.  It just seems
>>> better to have a student at the school taking point.
>>>
>>> When you send publicity emails, please add some basic information to
>>> this spreadsheet so we can keep track of what's been done:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoHP1ey91UqPdEhXQVcwdXI3NHlfUTF6WncxQkpBV1E&usp=sharing
>>>
>>> And here is a template email to send out:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UketlMiGRnG4nBunliDZ-bbIKyReUUXr8EHUdFZxyNs/edit
>>>
>>> re: non-CS stuff.  We have more carefully tailored emails for reaching
>>> out to science departments and such.  If you're interested in using those,
>>> let me know, but usually Asheesh and I take care of that.  (Recruiting
>>> scientists to free software is a special passion of mine!)
>>>
>>> It would be great to get the first wave of emails out by the end of the
>>> week!
>>>
>>> *2)  Food*
>>>
>>> When we last left off, Asheesh and I were working towards getting a Red
>>> Hat staffer in attendance, which would get us $200 towards food (as I
>>> understand it).  If we successfully get 35-45 people between staff and
>>> attendees, it would be better to have a slightly larger food budget.  Ali,
>>> did you have a sense of whether we can get a bit more funding for this from
>>> NEU?
>>>
>>>
>>> Let me know if you have any questions!
>>> - Shauna
>>>
>>
>>
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