[Campus-bucknell-staff] next steps

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Also, $800 should be more than enough to cover the costs of the event, so
that's great.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Melissa Rios <mr043 at bucknell.edu> wrote:

> Hi Shauna,
>
> The first two items for the website have been fixed. In terms of budget,
> we are really working hard for the rest of our events. A lot of trouble has
> stemmed from the fact that we changed over the summer as well as emails
> getting lost in Student Government spam. We actually are supposed to
> receive $500 in funding for this event from Bucknell's Library and IT
> dept., however, we're visiting some staff tomorrow to confirm the transfers
> are done. I'll let you know an official update as soon I know officially.
> Additionally, we're working with Student Government for more funding for
> the event. So far, from what I can recollect from the budget submission,
> we're requesting about $800.
>
> I think the general consensus with our board is that we want a longer
> Career Panel especially if the History is not popular.
>
>
> *Melissa Rios*
> WVBU Webmaster
> LAUNCH Vice President
> ITEC WordPress Consultant
> Bucknell University '16
> The Nightingale-Bamford School '12
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Just wanted to check in on our progress.  I took a look at the website
>> and I have two concerns:
>>
>> - the LaunchThat sign up interface doesn't seem to ask very detailed
>> questions.  Our sign up form asks for attendee backgrounds, food allergies,
>> etc. that are useful for planning the event.  I'd recommend making a more
>> detailed sign up form, or having someone ready to email sign-ups to get
>> that additional information.
>>
>> - For the speaker section, can we temporarily take it out and then put it
>> back in as we figure out who'll be there?  If we can edit it, we can also
>> use that section to advertise projects to work on in addition to people to
>> meet.
>>
>> Once we get that taken care of, we can start doing publicity.  It's a bit
>> early, but we can make sure to do a couple of reminder emails to early sign
>> ups.  It also gives folks a chance to pre-establish relationships with open
>> source projects before the event.
>>
>> I noticed the "event schedule" and "budget" items are still pending.
>>  What's the status of the budget? re: the event schedule, are you folks
>> comfortable with the one listed on the website?  If you wanted to have a
>> longer career panel, I'd recommend taking out history and ethics of open
>> source, which is not our best activity.  That said, an hour long remote
>> career panel might get kinda tedious for those who aren't as into it.
>>  Thoughts?
>>
>> ~ Shauna
>>
>>
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