[Campus-purdue-staff] next steps

Tue Oct 28 16:12:22 UTC 2014

The website is now up at http://oh-purdue.github.io/ and I'm putting together emails to mentors. (Thanks, Shauna, for the awesome list of leads!). I also sent a list of IP addresses to the ticketing system for FreeNode. I'll start sending out mentor asks (including to last year's attendees) and general publicity emails this afternoon. 

Lauren

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shauna Gordon-McKeon" <shaunagm at gmail.com>
To: campus-purdue-staff at lists.openhatch.org
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 4:11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Campus-purdue-staff] next steps

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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