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[Campus-rutgers-staff] Power strip issue solved

Prachi Pendse prachirp at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 03:52:44 UTC 2013 

Would it be ok if we just had it going on during snacktime?
-Prachi


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
<shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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