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

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Yes, we were adding our talk-back right after the career panel.


Shane
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Kate Maroney
<katemaroney at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> 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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