Open Source Comes to Campus/Potential Locations

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Criteria for Selecting Locations

  • How many attendees are we likely to get? As a general heuristic, if the CS program is more than 100 people, we're likely to get enough people for a good event.
  • Is there a good host organization - an ACM, Women in CS group - that can follow up on the workshop with project nights or other events to keep people involved?
  • Is it easy for us to get to? Can we get funding to pay for our travel?
  • Is there a pool of local volunteers - for instance, from local user groups, or from the CS program - that can help mentor at the event?

Staff date (un)availability

Our Google calendar should have the most up to date schedule.

Abbreviated List

  • Present:
    • BU/NEU, tentatively sometime in June
    • CCSF, scheduled for Saturday June 29th (have we contacted Grant Bowman re: also including SFSU?)
  • Future
    • First time events:
      • Midwest:
        • University of Minnesota, Morris; contact: Elena Machkasova; tentative date: Sept 14/15 2013
        • University of Indiana; contact: LKuper
          • Diversity angle: Indiana Women in CS can be a primary host
        • Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana
        • UMN Twin Cities
        • University of Chicago
        • University of Illinois at Chicago
      • East coast:
        • George Mason University; contact: Tyler Hallada
        • University of Virginia; contact: Jeff Spies?; (open science themed?)
        • Columbia; contact: Kathy Sun; made significant plans before having to cancel
        • SUNY Buffalo; contact: Nicholas Di Rienzo
      • Bay-area:
        • UC Berkeley; contact: Hina Sakazaki and Rahul Basu; we contactted them first & made siginificant plans before canceling
        • UC-Davis; contact: CS Club officers; we contacted them first
      • Pacific Northwest
        • University of Washington; contact: Allan Christopher Ecker
        • Oregon State University; contact: Jennifer Davidson; sign plans
        • Portland State University; contact: ?; sign plans
      • Misc:
        • University of Arizona; contact: Corwin Pena, Ami Buczek
        • West LA (ULM? UCLA?); contact: Esther Nam
        • Australia (email thread is really old! should reply soon either way); contact: Brianna Laugher
    • Follow-upe events:
      • Boston: invite alumni from MIT (2011), Harvard (2013), Wellesley (2013) and potentially NEU/BU to a non-workshop project night?
  • Past:
    • UMass-Amherst (April 2013), Wellesley (April 2013), Harvard (February 2013), UIUC (October 2012), Johns Hopkins (September 2012), RPI (April 2012), U-Maryland (Feb 2012), MIT (Sept 2011), UPenn (Sept 2010)

Future events with Status: Likely, or higher

  • Baltimore
    • Status: ACM says yes!
    • Dates: Thu Sep 13 + Sat Sep 15.
    • Links: Public event page, Staff info page
    • JHU
      • First day of classes: Tue, Sep 4 2012 [1]
      • Contacts:
        • ACM - ACM officers approved event. They still need to approve the budget.
        • WiCS (women in computer science) [2] - Asheesh is in touch with Dr. Selinski about doing outreach there
  • Illinois
    • UIUC
    • Status: UIUC ACM says yes. We need to find co-instructors before committing.
      • Dates: Lecture on Oct 6. Full day, Oct 7.
      • First day of classes: August 27, 2012 [3]
      • Contacts:
        • WCS (Women in Computer Science) [4]: officers list [5] - perhaps try President Lavanya Iyer (iyer6@illinois.edu) or webmaster Julia Syi (syi10@illinois.edu)?
        • ACM (potential host) [6]: general questions (acm@uiuc.edu), other contacts [7]

Planning

Curated First Tasks

OSCTC career panel

Open Source Comes to Campus/Fall 2013 logistics

Places I'd like to take the tour:

  • San Francisco
    • Berkeley
      • First day of classes: Thursday, August 23 2012 [8]
      • Contacts:
        • AWE (undergraduate women in CS group [9] (contact info at link)
        • WISCE (graduate women in CS group) [10]: outreach coordinator Colleen Lewis - ColleenL@berkeley.edu
        • HackBerkeley (potential host) [11]: contact Workshop Team: workshops@hackersatberkeley.com
        • Contacted HackBerkeley on 2012-07-23. We'll see what they say!
    • Stanford
      • First day of classes: Mon Sep 24 [12]
      • Contacts:
        • WIC (women in computer science) [13]: mailing list: wics-board@lists.stanford.edu (no other contact info on page)
        • ACM (potential host) [14]: acm-officers@lists.stanford.edu
    • SFSU
      • First day of classes: Friday, August 31, 2012 [15]
      • Contacts:
        • WiSE (women in science and engineering - no CS specific group)[16]: cose323@sfsu.edu
        • ACM (potential host) [17] - no contact info on page
  • Other California schools
    • Caltech (Pasadena)
      • First day of classes: Monday Oct 1st, 2012 [www.registrar.caltech.edu/AcademicCalendar2011-12.pdf] (PDF)
      • Contacts:
        • Keegan?
        • SWE (society of women engineers) [18]: swe@its.caltech.edu
        • Caltech Club for Computer Science [19]?
    • UC Davis (Davis)
      • First day of classes: Mon, Sept 24, 2012 [20]
      • Contacts:
        • Phoebe
        • WICS (women in computer science) [21]: President of Board at das@cs.ucdavis.edu, other contact here [22]
        • Computer Science Club (potential host) [23]: ucd.csclub.officers@gmail.com
  • Oregon
    • Portland State
      • First Day of classes: Sep 26 [24]
      • Contacts: People from Open Source Bridge
      • To work with the CAT group there. Contact-points sorted by how excellent they are for contact, most-excellent first: topdog AT cat.pdx.edu ; psuacm AT cecs.pdx.edu ; bart AT cs.pdx.edu
      • I just pinged topdog and bart, suggesting Sep 29+30. Paulproteus (talk) 01:55, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
  • NYC
    • Cornell
      • First day of classes: Weds Aug 22nd [25]
      • Contacts:
        • rmo, or people he knows or can get me in touch with
        • Women Across Computing At Cornell [26]
        • ACM [27] (seems entirely ICPC focused, though)
  • Texas
    • University of Texas at Austin
      • First day of classes: Weds Aug 29 [32]
      • Contacts:
        • Kartik, possibly
        • WiCS (women in computer science) [33]: Brianna Connelly (briannacon@gmail.com)
        • ACM [34]: general questions (utacm@utacm.org), other contact info [35]
    • Rice (in Houston)
      • First day of classes: Mon, Aug 20th, 2012 [36]
      • Contacts:
        • CSters (women in computing) [37]: links to various officers here [38]
        • Rice Computer Club (potential host) [39]: Joan Chao (jec8@rice.edu)
  • Boston
    • Harvard
      • First Day of classes: Tues Sep 4th, 2012 [40]
      • Contacts:
        • HCS people, or Felice
        • WISHR (women in science at harvard-radcliffe) [41]: wishr.board@gmail.com
        • Harvard Computer Society [42]: board@hcs.harvard.edu
  • Western Mass
    • U Mass Amherst
      • First day of classes: Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 [43]
      • Contacts:
        • CS Women (computer science women's group) [44]: women@cs.umass.edu
        • UMASS ACM (potential host) [45]: umass.acm@gmail.com
  • Seattle
    • University of Wasington
      • First day of classes: Monday, Sept 24th, 2012 [46]
      • Contacts:
        • WICSE (women in computer science and engineering) [47]
        • ACM-W (ACM women's chapter) [48]: acmw-officers@cs.washington.edu
  • Stevens Institute of Technology.
    • Contact: Tyler Romeo (emailed us during 2012-08)
  • Providence
    • Brown
      • First Day of classes: Weds September 5th [49]
      • Contacts:
        • Historic Brown Free Culture people?
        • WiCS (women in computer science) [50]: wics@cs.brown.edu
  • Philadelphia
    • Penn
      • First Day of classes: Wed September 5th [51]
      • Contacts:
        • Yuvi, perhaps?
        • WiCS (women in computer science) [52]: list of officers [53]
        • Dining Philosophers (they run the computer science club, apparently?) [54]: dinphil@gmail.com
  • North Carolina
    • UNC Chapel Hill
      • First Day of classes: Tuesday Aug 21st [55]
      • Contacts:
        • possible contact: http://www.sarahriggs.com/
        • Women and Science [56] - kind of unusual but can't find anything else
        • Computer Science Club [57]: for events, contact Katie Hawthorne (kathryne@email.unc.edu)
  • Canada!
    • McGill
      • First Day of classes: Tuesday Aug 7th [58]
      • Contacts:
        • Biella
        • Women at SoCS (school of computer science) [59]
        • ACM [60]: Mohit Singh (mohit@cs.mcgill.ca)
    • U Alberta
      • Contacts: Tyler Davidson, who emailed hello@ in May
  • Chicago
    • UChicago
      • First day of classes: Thursday, Sept 27th 2012 [61]
      • Contacts:
        • WIS (Women In Science) [62]: wis-officers@lists.uchicago.edu
        • ACM [63]
    • UIC (U of Illinois at Chicago)
      • First day of classes: Monday Aug 27th, 2012 [64]
      • Contacts:
        • WiCS (women in computer science) [65] (fairly out of date/uninformative - maybe try Anushka Anand [66] or Habiba Habiba [67] WiSC officers from 2010-2011 year)
        • ACM [68]: acm-officers@uic.edu
        • Status: Jillian Aurisano contacted us on 2012-08-26 and it seems ACM and WiCS are both interested in working on it.
    • NEIU (also in Chicago)
    • Contacts: Iacobelli Francisco contacted us during 2012-08.
  • Indiana.edu
    • Contacts: Lindsey Kuper, via Asheesh

Post-event publicity

  • Get student newspaper to write about it.

Archived

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