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[Campus-bucknell-staff] next steps

Melissa Rios mr043 at bucknell.edu
Fri Sep 19 21:44:19 UTC 2014


We'll look at it again at our meeting this Sunday and see. Since I inputted
it, I probably won't see it. But others might. We'll let you know.


*Melissa Rios*
WVBU Webmaster
LAUNCH Vice President
ITEC WordPress Consultant
Bucknell University '16
The Nightingale-Bamford School '12

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If I'm the only one who thinks it's confusing, then it's probably not an
> issue...
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Melissa Rios <mr043 at bucknell.edu> wrote:
>
>> Sorry. We don't have control over the help text appearing on top of the
>> question.
>>
>> Melissa Rios
>> Bucknell University '16
>> Nightingale-Bamford School '12
>>
>> On Sep 19, 2014, at 5:17 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> One minor thought: the ordering of the help text for some of the
>> questions might be confusing.  For instance, it reads:
>>
>> e.g. "never heard of it", "run Ubuntu", "wrote most of the Linux kernel"
>> "Please briefly describe your involvement in open source"
>>
>> Perhaps the ordering around on those three questions (From how did you
>> discover... to dietary restrictions.)
>>
>> 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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