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[Campus-rutgers-staff] Power strip issue solved

Prachi Pendse prachirp at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 00:25:16 UTC 2013 

I just got news from Elana that our publicity email was forwarded to the
WiCS list. Out of curiosity, how many people are signed up? Also, I copied
you guys on an email thread from Mozilla ppl.
*Shauna*, is it ok if we do a short video conference/q&a session with
Benjamin Kerensa, a Mozilla Rep, during projects time?
-Prachi


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
<shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> I added both Russ and Julie.  Do you know if Julie can get our publicity
> sent out to WiCS ASAP?  We've got plenty of sign ups now but they're like
> 90% male names - I'd love to get a little more gender diversity and will
> happily save slots for women but we need to actually reach out to them.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Elana Braff <ebraff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey!  Can you also add Julie Duncan (jd790 at eden.rutgers.edu) to the
>> mailing list?  She is presidant of WiCS at Rutgers.  I spoke to her this
>> weekend and they would like to get involved!
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Prachi Pendse <prachirp at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> *Shauna*, can you add Russ Frank (<me at russfrank.us>) to this mailing
>>> list. He is a comp sci undergrad at Rutgers.
>>>
>>> *Sri, Shauna*, will you need visitors parking passes to park by CoRE? I
>>> will try to arrange these with the Computer Science department. Will it
>>> just be the two of you?
>>> Also, I asked Github to sponsor the snack at this event (
>>> community.github.com), and posted on a mozilla.events google group so
>>> we'll wait to hear back.
>>>
>>> Can one of the undergrads email the usacs google group, and is it
>>> possible to make announcments before or after the undergrad computer
>>> science classes you are taking?
>>>
>>> I will make sure that CSGSS sends a reminder email about this as well as
>>> includes it in their weekly digest.
>>>
>>> So far I:
>>> posted flyers around the computer science buildings
>>> made announcements at the beginning and end of HackRU and at the Github
>>> tech talk
>>> asked Komal to forward the publicity email to the undergrad listserv,
>>> since she only forwarded it to the grad students at first I believe
>>> posted it on the Rutgers Hackathon Club facebook page
>>>
>>> -Prachi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Our count is 9, which is low but not unsalvageable.  (And I believe
>>>> pretty strongly that a low turnout event can still be amazing.)  Anyway, I
>>>> think we need to make a big push on Tuesday, and I have three suggestions:
>>>>
>>>> - If we haven't gotten the main undergrad CS list to send out our
>>>> publicity, we may need to contact individual professors and ask them to
>>>> send the information along to their students.  Undergrad CS is our main
>>>> audience, so we need to be 100% that we've reached them.  It's fine if they
>>>> know about the event and don't want to come, but I'm not sure they know
>>>> about the event.
>>>> Can someone find out if our publicity email has been sent?  Once we
>>>> know that, we can figure out how to proceed.
>>>>
>>>> - Target non-CS majors.  We usually do this to some degree, but we
>>>> pushed hard at Purdue and turned out something like ten extra people.  To
>>>> do this we send customized emails (here's a doc of emails from a recent
>>>> event which we can adapt:
>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/18ZAL7lKPsJtNMCdXGJcdm40wKS93dMGvJM5OAtU8TR0/edit?usp=sharing).
>>>>  The responsibilities involved would be:
>>>> a) making a list of contacts for all the science departments
>>>> b) creating the doc of emails to send, which can mostly be done by
>>>> cutting & pasting from various sources
>>>> c) actually sending the emails
>>>> I can do b if someone else will take on a and c.
>>>>
>>>> - Make sure the host organizations (there are three of them, right?
>>>> WiCS, USACS and the graduate student society) all sent the publicity out to
>>>> their members.  Can someone find out about this as well?
>>>>
>>>> best
>>>> Shauna
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Sri Raga Velagapudi <
>>>> sriraga.velagapudi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Great! Less things for me to carry.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is our count so far. How are the advertising efforts going?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Prachi Pendse <prachirp at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> USACS has plenty of power strips and Billy will bring them to the
>>>>>> event on Monday.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Billy, I will send you a reminder email the day before or so.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Prachi
>>>>>>
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