[Campus-boston-summer-staff] next steps

[Ali Ukani]

Looks great, Shauna!
Could you add "Ali Ukani of NU ACM" under "who we are" for hosting credit,
and link "NUACM" to http://acm.ccs.neu.edu?

As for handling signups, we once ran a Ruby on Rails workshop that was
capped at 40 students (signup done first-come-first-serve through
http://guestlistapp.com/), and students self-organized exchanging tickets
on the Facebook event and our college's Facebook group (most cases either
someone really really wanted to go but didn't have a ticket and someone
else was willing to let them have theirs, or someone just wasn't able to
make it and wanted to open up their spot).

If we do need to filter, first-come-first-serve has always worked well for
me, but enthusiasm and diversity seem like good criteria to consider.

Ali Ukani (http://ali.io)
NU ACM <http://acm.ccs.neu.edu/> President
NU Hacks <http://hacks.io/> Organizer


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Molly White <molly.white5 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Alrighty, your call.
>
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> The examples are meant to be highly recognizable.  It's not clear to me
>> what percentage of people who don't know much about open source would
>> recognize "MediaWiki", whereas presumably everyone will recognize Wikipedia.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Molly White <molly.white5 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Just a minor note, but I feel like "Wikipedia's backend code" should
>>> just be "MediaWiki".
>>>
>>> - Molly
>>>
>>>
>>>  On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> So we're almost ready to start publicizing.  We can do so with emails,
>>>> flyers, and by linking people to this website:
>>>> http://boston-summer.openhatch.org/
>>>>
>>>> Please give it a look and see if there's any changes you'd like made.
>>>>  Also, please see the line under "Who we are" and let me know who I should
>>>> credit as hosts.
>>>>
>>>>  We should also talk about how we're going to run sign ups.  Generally
>>>> we have not had issues with events getting over-full, however it has
>>>> happened and if we are advertising the event to many colleges it might
>>>> become an issue.  If we have too many sign ups, do we want to filter based
>>>> on:
>>>> - first come, first serve
>>>> - who is a student of which college (ie host college gets priority)
>>>> - those who seem most enthusiastic
>>>> - those who provide diversity to the event
>>>>
>>>> We can also do a mixture of the above.
>>>>
>>>> My hope is to begin publicizing the event early next week.
>>>>
>>>> best
>>>> Shauna
>>>>
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