[Campus-portland-staff] Talking about a future Open Source Comes to Campus event

[Damon Liang]

Sorry for the delayed response. On Friday during our acm meeting I  
asked everyone what they thought about holding this event. The general  
input seemed to be positive and there seemed to be some who would like  
to participate. I was going to ask at the Computer Action Team if  
anyone was interested but if we are thinking about rescheduling, I'll  
hold off on that until we get a firmer date.

We usually don't plan that far in advance so our fall schedule is  
open. Anytime that works for you, should be fine for us. Here's a link  
to the Oregon academic calendar, it may be helpful in figuring out a  
date:
http://www.ous.edu/sites/default/files/stucoun/prospstu/Revised_2012_2017_Five_Year_OUS_Academic_Calendar.pdf

I'd imagine that any date not falling on those weeks would be best. Is  
there any particular time during the term you would like to hold this?

Quoting Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>:

> (Resending to the right PSU ACM officers email address this time.)
>
> Hey lovely PSU ACM folks,
>
> I had the pleasure of talking with Damon on the phone! I thought I'd

> send a quick note here.
>
> There were a few things we talked about:
>
> * Any of you PSU ACM officers, we'd love to get you on the planning  
> mailing list for the event:  
> http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/campus-portland-staff
>
> * We discussed how Saturday events can be tough, due to many
students
> being commuters.
>
> * I mentioned that I'd share a tentative schedule, and here it is --

>
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ZLmwmF1r8V2kDffV-hNNxZV8Ql-HYeXWf6eCKqfsuQ/
>
> * Students have a wide variety of command line expertise, so it'd be

> important to have that be part of a workshop we run.
>
> The subject line says "future" event because I think that we're not  
> prepared enough at this point commit to a "yes", and I think it's  
> better to commit to a great event rather than travel to run one that

> disappoints. That's a change since the phone call, having looked
into
> our side of things more -- sorry to be a flip-flopper.
>
> It seems to me the best time to set an event up would be the fall  
> semester. Do you folks have a set of dates that might work on your  
> end? (I'm also keeping the existing team in the loop by CC:ing the  
> mailing list.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Asheesh.
>

-- 
Damon Liang
<damonl at cecs.pdx.edu>