[Campus-uw-staff] introductions & beginning to plan
Shauna Gordon-McKeon
shaunagm at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 00:05:52 UTC 2014
I've fixed the redirect from washington.openhatch.org on our end - the
website should start showing up at that address in 20 minutes or so.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Ben Marwick <bmarwick at uw.edu> wrote:
> 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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