[Campus-purdue-staff] next steps

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Also worth noting:

I put the publicity and sign up sheets from last year in the google docs
folder.  So there's a list of contacts for doing publicity, as well as a
list of all the people who signed up last year.  We should use them!  :)

- Shauna

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Lauren M Stuart <lstuart at purdue.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Shauna!
>>
>> Funding -- CSWN is covering everything. We're a well-funded group this
>> year. One thing we need to know ahead of time is if we're going to have
>> mentors from out of town so that we can try to support their travel as
>> well, sort of like how we did with you and Asheesh last year. We'll need to
>> know that two weeks before the event so we can make sure we've got the
>> right paperwork to make that work smoothly.
>>
>
> I think that's a deadline we can hit.  Let's prioritize finding mentors
> now so we know who we've got coming by two weeks out.
>
> Here's a mentor form for people who are interested to fill out.  It helps
> us keep track of how many people we have, and what areas we've got covered,
> so we know if we need to keep looking.  It also has a link for folks who
> want to sign up for our (completely optional) mentor training.
>
>
>
>> Publicity -- We'll handle the website. I tasked Eehita, with me as backup
>> for any problems.
>
>
> Excellent.  When do you think the site will be up by?
>
>
>> Mentors -- We're contacting the main student group we know (Purdue Linux
>> Users Group, with a link to the mentor sign-up and a rough description of
>> what a mentor could do) to fish for mentors there. It hadn't occurred to me
>> to ask faculty. Should we cold-email or ask for referrals? Or both?
>>
>
>
> I'd do both.  Ask for people to mentor, and then either way follow up by
> asking them if there are any other people they know who might be interested.
>
> Some leads:
>
> - There's a professor named Sabine Brunswicker who is teaching a class on "open
> innovation" <
> https://www.purdue.edu/opendigital/courses/research-on-open-innovation-phd-course/>
> and who directs the Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (<
> https://www.purdue.edu/opendigital/>).  If you're not already in contact
> with her, you should be!  She'd be a great mentor, and regardless she
> likely knows a lot of other people who could mentor, including grad
> students in her classes, and the research team and students from the center.
>
> - The people involved in this Open Compute Challenge from a couple years
> ago: <http://www.purdue.edu/opencompute/>
>
> - The Purdue profs listed in this article:
> http://www.purdue.edu/uns/html4ever/2005/051114.Arns.virtual.html
>
> - The professors and students who work on this project, which was launched
> at Purdue: https://mygeohub.org/groups/geoshare
>
> - Maybe these people?
> http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/prism/about/software.php
>
> Let's keep track of all the people we're talking to on the mentor
> spreadsheet:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vOLBk9Ui8BCLUWV_8j3bOZAhw6QQSqBEMi_TAms-W4Y/edit#gid=1986340895
>
> best
> Shauna
>
>
>
>>
>> Lauren
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Shauna Gordon-McKeon" <shaunagm at gmail.com>
>> To: campus-purdue-staff at lists.openhatch.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:33:01 PM
>> Subject: [Campus-purdue-staff] next steps
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Lauren and Eehita,
>>
>>
>> My apologies for the radio silence the last couple of weeks! I wanted to
>> touch base and talk about the next steps.
>>
>>
>> According to Trello (< https://trello.com/b/DJa8TmiM/purdue >), we've
>> got date + location settled, but still need to figure out:
>>
>>
>>
>> - Funding: Will the school be able to provide any funds to cover food for
>> the event? If not, I can look for sponsors, but I need to know soon. I've
>> assigned all three of us to this item on Trello.
>>
>>
>> - Publicity: We should start our publicity push within the next week. To
>> do this, we should get the publicity site up. Can one of you take care of
>> it? There are links on the Trello card for how to do so. If you can't,
>> please say so, so that I know that I need to step in and do it. If you can,
>> let me know once it's ready so I can get up the domain name stuff.
>>
>>
>> - Mentors: I'm willing to take the lead on this, but it would be helpful
>> if you could let me know any students or faculty that you think might like
>> to be mentors. I've assigned myself to this on Trello.
>>
>>
>> best
>> Shauna
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