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

[Dina Lamdany]

The weekend of the 26th/27th will probably be bad for turnout--it's the
weekend right before midterms/the last weekend before our fall break, so
I'm not sure that would be good. The 2/3 is our fall break, and then the
9th we're holding a hackathon--would you be interested in moving to the
week after? It's a bit deep in November.


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
<shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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