[Campus-uofa-staff] getting mentors for the event

[Kate Maroney]

For timing, we were following the default one you provided, putting the
Career discussion at 1 or 1:30 I believe. Shane, correct me if I'm wrong

On Thursday, February 6, 2014, Zuoming Shi <zuomingshi at email.arizona.edu>
wrote:

> I'll send out the reminder emails when I get out of class today
>
> Z.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> For the remote career panel:
>
> - I shouldn't have a problem finding 3 mentors (I wouldn't recommend more,
> as each person additional increases the likelihood of technical issues).
>  The key is figuring out what time the career panel will be, so we can ask
> people to keep a specific time free. Once you get me that, I'll send out
> emails.
>
> - With only a few days notice, I think it makes sense to limit the remote
> mentors to OpenHatch.  From past experience, it would be useful to arrange
> about 5 minutes for Asheesh and/or myself to talk to the attendees before
> the contributions workshop starts, so we can explain a bit about what we
> have for them to work on.  (We recommend that mentors with open source
> projects also prepare a 3-5 minute explanation of what they have to work
> on.)
>
> ~ Shauna
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Shane Gianelli <shanejgianelli at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Sorry, yes to both, I really like the idea of giving students a chance to
> chat directly with mentors.
>
> Let me know what we will need to set up for that portion.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shane
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Kate Maroney <
> katemaroney at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> If you can get remote mentors, that would be great, I know last minute is
> difficult.
>
> Food will be ordered today, and I've looked at the list of attendees with
> dietary needs. We're all set up with equipment, and I'll take care of
> taking photos and notes.
>
>
> On Thursday, February 6, 2014, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Shane:  I'm going to assume the answer to those questions is no, unless I
> hear otherwise from you.  (At which point I'll do what I can to make them
> happen, but I can't promise anything.)
>
> Zuoming:  Usually about 2-3 days out from the event, we send out a
> reminder email asking people to confirm that they're coming.  If you
> haven't yet, you should consider doing so.  :)  From past experience, 90%
> of sign ups that confirm they're coming will come, and about 30% of
> attendees that never respond will show up.
>
> Kate:  Are you all set with food?  Make sure to check the attendee signup
> list for allergies and vegetarians/vegan.  There's also the second half of
> the space checklist <https://openhatch.org/wiki/OSCTC_space_checklist> to
> make sure you're set up equipment-wise.  Are you planning to have someone
> take pictures and/or take notes?
>
> One more note - we have an exit survey that we'd love for students to fill
> out.  We love to get as much feedback as we can so we can improve our
> events.  If you can make sure the students see this link - I would
> recommend putting it up on a chalkboard/blackboard at the start of the day,
> and then mentioning it a few times to remind folks - that'd be great:
> http://bit.ly/uofa-exit-survey
>
> best
> Shauna
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Looks like you've got everything covered!  That's great to hear - thanks
> for going over it all with me.
>
> Just to clarify a few things:
>
> - Am I correct that you'd like to do a remote career panel, via google
> hangouts?  If so, how many people wou
>
> --
> Zuoming Shi
> President, UA Video Game Developers Club
> President, UA Asian Music Club
> Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Arizona
>


-- 
Kate Maroney
CSc 245 Section Leader
Co-President, WiCS
Microsoft Intern Ambassador
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