[Campus-columbia-staff] planning an event for next semester

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

If you're willing to open the event to other campuses, I'd be optimistic at
finding at least 15 women who want to attend.  We've had similar numbers of
women at other events.  That said, all we want to do extend the invitation
to as many women as possible.  If it ends up being majority male, c'est la
vie.

We've played with the format before.  We could split the event into two
days, 2-3 hours each - one tutorial, one working-on-patches workshop - but
I'm not sure if that's preferable.  We've gotten a full house of attendees
before.  It's just a matter of picking a good date, publicizing well, and
having a big enough base of potential invitees to begin with.

The weekend of Oct 19/20 would be fine for me.  Asheesh, can you chime in
on whether that would also work for you?

- Shauna



On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Dina Lamdany <dinalamdany at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Shauna,
>
> Thanks!
>
> We think it would be difficult to get 25-30 females to an event like this.
> That being said, WICS would be happy to work on this event as well, and
> advertise it to our list-serv (we also do have Barnard students in WICS and
> on our board.) But it is unlikely that the event will be majority female,
> if that many people are expected, given the demographics at our events.
>
> Is there a possibility to make a shorter event? Like an hour or two,
> rather than five? That would probably help attendance.
>
> If ADI is going to collaborate on the event, which it would like to,
> October 12/13 is probably a bad date, since ADI is hosting a startup career
> fair on the 11th. Would the weekend after work?
>
> Best,
>
> Dina
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Dina,
>>
>> No worries - I hope your internship went well, and that your trip back to
>> the east coast (whenever you do it) is safe and stress-free.
>>
>> re: turnout, we usually aim for 25-35 attendees.  If you'd like to
>> collaborate with other groups/schools, then great!  We love collaboration.
>>  One of our main goals, though, is to reach out to women - to that end,
>> we're most enthusiastic about collaborations with women-in-CS/STEM type
>> groups and with women's colleges.  For instance, we have contacts at
>> Barnard and would love to be able to invite them to this event.  This
>> doesn't mean we can't collaborate with other groups, just that we'd like to
>> prioritize making sure women who want to attend can attend.
>>
>> When do you think we could get a definite time & space nailed down?  And
>> what did you think of Oct 12/13th as a potential weekend?
>>
>> - Shauna
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Dina Lamdany <dinalamdany at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Shauna,
>>>
>>> Sorry for the super slow response time--I've been finishing up an
>>> internship in San Francisco this week, and the past week has been crazy.
>>> Kathy has graduated, so he's no longer a good point-person, but I am.
>>>
>>> WICS would be interested in this event, but given the nature of the
>>> event (a pretty big time commitment for attendees) we think it would be
>>> best to collaborate on this event with some other CS groups on campus to
>>> get a bigger turnout. WICS would definitely advertise the event to our
>>> list-serv, however.
>>>
>>> I'm also a board member of the Application Development Initiative, which
>>> will have an easier time booking a space, and which would be happy to
>>> collaborate on this event. We'd also potentially be interested in reaching
>>> out to a tech group at NYU and collaborating with them. What do you think?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Dina
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Kathy and Dina,
>>>>
>>>> Just wanted to follow up.  I'm CCing Melanie just in case our point
>>>> people have, in fact, changed.  Asheesh and I will both be out of the
>>>> country and fairly unavailable later in August, so it would be great to
>>>> figure this out beforehand.
>>>>
>>>> best
>>>> Shauna
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Kathy and Dina,
>>>>>
>>>>> We're looking forward to doing an Open Source Comes to Campus event at
>>>>> Columbia this semester.  Are you ready to start planning again - this time,
>>>>> hopefully, with better luck finding space?  If you're no longer the best
>>>>> point people for organizing this, just let us know.  :)
>>>>>
>>>>> As far as timing, we've pinpointed the weekend of October 12th/13th as
>>>>> a good one, though we're flexible.  How does that sound to you?
>>>>>
>>>>> best,
>>>>> Shauna
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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