• 23Jun

  WICS Meeting - Wednesday, June 24th, 2009, 11:30pm

  WICS Meeting Minutes No Comments

   

  Attendees:

  Greg

  sumo

  Caty

  Longlong

  Colleen

  Harman

  Ashley

  Cat

  Crystal

  Winona

  Sally

   

  Office Report:

  Ashley:

  ·         Only one receipt received

  ·         Anyone else who is holding receipt should give it to Ashley

   

  Longlong:

  ·         working on Picasa

  ·         created gmail account

  ·         Password - same as the sfu password for website

  ·         username: wics.sfu@gmail.com

  ·         post the link of pictures on picasa on wics website

  ·         reschedule the ChicTech brainstorming session

  ·         July 20-24

  ·         sent emails about it reschedule

   

  Winona:

  ·         sent out email about brainstorm session questions

  ·         please reply back

  ·         lunch with SWICST

  ·         July 3

  ·         Ashley is working on finding out who will be attending

  ·         BBQ:

  ·         Women’s centre interested

  ·         Women in Engineering interested

  ·         Event Co-ordinators to meet up to arrange the BBQ

  ·         CSSS Subversion workshop

  ·         this afternoon

  ·         Wing’s night tonight

  ·         Bit&Bytes

  ·         Linux workshop: may need reconsideration

  ·         Couple women starting in fall, expressed interest in WICS

   

  Cat:

  ·         BBQ:

  ·         Meeting with on Friday with Women Centre & Women in Eng.

  ·         Mid-July after the midterms

  ·         Find out the # of people attending

  ·         Find out about the BBQ availability

  ·         Subversion:

  ·         About 14 people showed up

  ·         Good success

   

  Elections:

  Nominations:

  ·         Secretary - Crystal:

  §         Nominated by Kate

  §         Grad student

  §         Has been involved in WICS for a long time

  §         Good at typing

  §         No-opponents

  §         Crystal claims the position

   

  ·         Events Co-ordinator - Cat:

  §         Nominated by Harman

  §         Existing Events Co-ordinator

  §         No opponents

  §         Cat claims the position

   

  Upcoming Events:

  Frosh Week:

  ·         Ashley coordinating the event

  ·         Need to find sponsors soon

  ·         Longlong can help in finding sponsors

  ·         Arrange the meeting to find volunteers

  ·         Separate registration for frosh week

  ·         suggest CSSS to advertise to DDP students as well

  BBQ:

  ·         More details by Cat

   

   

  Open Floor:

  ·         Forward info to Salima

  ·         Sally winning GoogleFUSE

  ·         Kate & Vivian winning Anita Borg Scholarship

  ·         Women in Open Source Talk

  ·         Experience of New comers in CS

  ·         tough teachers

  ·         more guys in-class than in high-school

  ·         discouraging with low grades in first year

  ·         Individual student assignments, a challenge

  ·         CMPT 220:

  §         girls participate less in class

  §         No even group participation of guys & girls

  ·         suggestion:

  §         give good feedback on TA’s work or Professor’s work

  §         Get assistance from WICS members

   

  ·         Amanda’s update on Funding for GHC

  ·         CS supporting 3 students

  ·         FAS will match CS funding

  ·         looking into how to apply

• 08Jun

  WICS Subversion Workshop

  Events No Comments

  Title: WICS Subversion Workshop
  Location: ASB CSIL 9838
  Description: This workshop we will introduce the Subversion version control system.
  We will discuss basic usage of Subversion, both individually and with a group: checking out repositories, working with working copies, branching, and merging.
  Participants may work with example repositories using either CSIL computers or their own laptops.
  Start Time: 15:30
  Date: 2009-06-17
  End Time: 16:30

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