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[Campus-rutgers-staff] Power strip issue solved

Shauna Gordon-McKeon shaunagm at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 03:35:45 UTC 2013 

I'm totally okay with doing a videoconference Q&A session during projects
time if we can find a separate, nearby space to do it in so that students
don't have to disrupt their work if they don't want to.  Would that be
feasible?


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Prachi Pendse <prachirp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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