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

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

I think Asheesh may be busy that weekend.  Without ruling it out - we'll
wait for him to get back to us - is there another weekend that might work?
 The weekend of the 26th/27th?


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
<shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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