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

Ben Marwick bmarwick at uw.edu
Fri Sep 19 03:59:29 UTC 2014


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>)
>> 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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