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

allane at u.washington.edu allane at u.washington.edu
Fri Sep 19 21:52:57 UTC 2014


Hey all, Allan here, I've been in full on lurk mode for most of the last quarter as I was a bit overloaded.  I'm back online now and ready to lend a hand.  One thing I can do is talk to EE advising about what level of obnoxious I can be at the EE mailing lists about this.  I might also be able to rustle up some recruits from my embedded programming class...

~Allan

PS: My username on Trello is allanecker.

On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, 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> 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>)
>                   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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