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[Campus-portland-staff] website's up

Shauna Gordon-McKeon shaunagm at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 15:27:04 UTC 2013


Hi Candace,

Just checking in to see if you've been able to confirm a location.  That's
the main thing we need right now.

best
Shauna


On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Candace Cheney <ccheney at pdx.edu> wrote:

> Shauna,
>
> Sorry I didn't answer all of these questions. I also didn't see that you
> wanted to invite non-PSU students as well. I would prefer this as well. I
> was an English major when I stumbled upon the CAT environment. I didn't
> know anything about computers, and I especially didn't know what Linux or
> Open Source was. Now, I'm learning html, css and python. I have already
> contributed in small ways to Ubuntu.
>
> The CAT is no longer admitting non-Engineering and Computer Science
> students in their program. I'm not sure why. I think they prefer people who
> are taking those routes in their education. I will get more information
> about your questions today.
>
> Candace
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Great.  Did you also see these questions?  I'm copying and pasting them
>> from a previous email.  Of these, the location is the most important.  We
>> can't go ahead with publicity until we've confirmed a location.  So that
>> should be the priority.
>>
>> *
>>
>> A few questions to finish it off:
>> -- How, if at all, would you/CAT like to be credited in the about
>> section?  (see:http://pdx.openhatch.org/about/)
>> -- How does the schedule listed here fit in with your expectations?  It's
>> sort of purposefully vague for now.  (see:
>> http://pdx.openhatch.org/schedule/)  As a heads up, we also made some
>> changes in the detailed schedule (
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ZLmwmF1r8V2kDffV-hNNxZV8Ql-HYeXWf6eCKqfsuQ/edit).
>> Mostly to put the career panel before lunch.  It's nice for attendees to be
>> able to follow up the career panel with socializing over food.
>> -- Do we want to limit attendance to PDX students?  Our inclination is
>> not to - to make the event open to all.  We can keep track of who is from
>> PDX and who is not on the sign up form and preferentially admit PDX
>> students.  If that sounds good to you, let me know and I will alter the
>> form to add a question to get that info.
>> -- What is the location we'll be using?
>>
>> As a side note, I don't think we talked about what we need in a
>> location.  We're looking for:
>>   - ideally a place with two distinct rooms, one for
>> food/socializing/advanced tutorials if folks are interested, and one for
>> the main event
>>   - somewhere with equipment to project tutorials, and a decent number of
>> outlets (though we can make do with tangled webs of power cords)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 20, 2013 2:05 AM, "Candace Cheney" <ccheney at pdx.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Shauna,
>>
>> I can do the publicity part. I have already started a document, and will
>> share it with you. As soon as we get confirmations that we can go ahead,
>> I'll start sending out emails and putting your flyer around campus. We
>> should get a pretty big attendance level, I'm sure of it.
>>
>> Candace
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> >
>>> > Hi Candace,
>>> >
>>> > Just following up to make sure you got this.
>>> >
>>> > The event is coming up soon, ...
>>>
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> "Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the
> more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be
> pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal
> dedication to a course greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's
> surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the
> same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
> ...success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of
> it." Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
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