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[Campus-rutgers-staff] Power strip issue solved

Shauna Gordon-McKeon shaunagm at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 04:12:53 UTC 2013 

That sounds like a great place to put it, especially if it's not dominating
the room - students who want to chat and socialize, or continue working,
can do so as well.


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Prachi Pendse <prachirp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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