[Campus-uw-staff] introductions & beginning to plan

[Ben Marwick]

I think the website is ready to go live except for one detail, I'm not 
sure what to put for $LOCATION_BUILDING_NAME... What room are we using 
for this event?

I've customized the student sign-up form and added the URL to the 
index.html page.

Once we get the room details, are we ready to go live?

On 19/9/2014 2:41 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon wrote:
> Thanks, Ben!  Welcome, Ana.  :)
>
> We've got a trello board to help us coordinate the event.  Perhaps we
> can assign some roles there?
>
> https://trello.com/b/vXOTICdf/uw-fall-2014
>
> To get edit access, please request access or give me your preferred
> email address so I can issue an invite.  For now:
>
> - Mako is covering booking the room.
>
> - I'm tentatively covering finding funding, in that I think Red Hat
> would like to sponsor the event, although Mako had said that he might be
> able to find funding elsewhere if that falls through.
>
> - Ben seems to be taking care of the website.
>
> Perhaps once the website is ready and the room is confirmed, Ana you
> could take the lead on sending out publicity emails? Although as someone
> new to UW, she could probably use some suggestions of the best places
> and lists to publicize to. Alternatively/additionally, Ana could take
> responsibility for replying to attendee questions and emails.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Ben Marwick <bmarwick at uw.edu
> <mailto:bmarwick at uw.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I've made a start on the website.
>
>
>     On 18/9/2014 10:29 PM, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
>
>         <quote who="Shauna Gordon-McKeon" date="Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at
>         02:37:57PM -0400">
>
>             Have we successfully moved the event to Sunday and booked
>             the rooms?
>
>
>         The facilities people (still) have not confirmed. I just sent
>         them an
>         email to remind them. As before, there's nothing on the calendar
>         so I
>         think this will not be a problem.
>
>             A few other questions:
>
>             - How are we doing for funding?  Red Hat may be interested
>             in sponsoring
>             the event, which would mostly involve putting them on the
>             website, and
>             having a Red Hatter or two mentoring at the event and on the
>             career panel.
>                I haven't 100% confirmed with them that they want to do
>             this, but they
>             very probably do.
>
>             - The event isn't for a while yet, but there are a lot of
>             potential
>             projects and mentors.  For instance, I talked to someone at
>             OpenMRS today
>             who is going to ask some UW-area core contributors if they
>             want to mentor
>             at the event.  It might be worth getting the publicity
>             website (<
>             https://openhatch.org/wiki/__Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/__Logistics/Publicity_Website
>             <https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Logistics/Publicity_Website>>)
>             up early so we can connect to mentors and attendees ahead of
>             time, and
>             allow them to start collaborating before the event.  This
>             requires more
>             work than just introducing everyone the day of, but is often
>             worth the
>             effort.  Let me know what you think.
>
>
>         I can possibly help with this stuff but I cannot commit to
>         leading it.
>         I'm teaching undergraduates for the first time this quarter and
>         have a
>         bunch of travel planned so I want to be realistic about what I can
>         commit to.
>
>         I'm a little worried that until yesterday (Hi Ana! Thank you so much
>         for chiming in!) the only email to the list has been from Shauna
>         (who
>         will not be here) and myself. :)
>
>         Regards,
>         Mako
>
>
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