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[Campus-depaul-staff] Science outreach

Shauna Gordon-McKeon shaunagm at gmail.com
Sun Sep 28 04:59:18 UTC 2014


That would be great.  Thanks, Massimo.  Is the no-mass-emails culture
DePaul-wide, or just CDM?

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Massimo DiPierro <
massimo.dipierro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 4 miles. 20 mins by train. I do not have the time to go post flyers there
> but I can ask some students next week.
>
> On Sep 27, 2014, at 11:52 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> How far away is the other campus?  And how much smaller is it than CDM?
>
> OpenHatch is very interested in reaching out to non CS majors, both
> because those students can definitely benefit from learning about the FLOSS
> community but also being FLOSS needs non-CS majors.  We have had a lot of
> success in the past reaching out to non-CS students.  That said, if CS
> students at DePaul are geographically isolated it may make sense to
> concentrate our efforts on CDM students.
>
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Massimo DiPierro <
> massimo.dipierro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I can flyer the CDM building. I can get some students flyer the science
>> and humanities but it would be a big waste of time. They are on a different
>> campus, away from us, and there is very little interaction between them and
>> CDM. They have never attended out events. Statistically those populations
>> are insignificant compared to the number and the level of engagement of CDM
>> students.
>> Massimo
>>
>>
>> On Sep 27, 2014, at 11:41 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Okay!  That's unusual, but we can work with it.
>>
>> Is there a plan for getting the campus well flyered?  It would be good to
>> get some flyers in science and humanities departments as well.  Are you
>> planning on doing that, Massimo?  Should we try to recruit students to help
>> with this?
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Massimo DiPierro <
>> massimo.dipierro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Sheila,
>>>
>>> we do not do mass emails. Not even within out department.
>>>
>>> I can only email my own students and I can ask colleagues to email their
>>> students. We can post on the university news page but nobody read that. The
>>> best change to get people is posting flyers at CDM. Students will see that.
>>>
>>> Massimo
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 27, 2014, at 11:31 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Massimo and Liz,
>>>
>>> Would you be willing to send out some emails to other departments?
>>> Shauna has templates here in our drive:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mEU-EMONpIZJ2YBa8tgLqmdom9idLDQ7EQlSqyBlw_A/edit
>>>
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