Date: June 22, 2010
Time: 10:30-11:30 AM
Place: TASC 9204E
Attendees:
Liyang Zhang
Ouldooz Baghban Karimi
Queena Wang
Greg Baker
The meeting included talks and decisions about the following topics:
Mentor Lunch with Veronica Dahl
Date: August 3, 2010
Time: 12:00pm
Place: Nature’s Garden
Number of students: 4 – already filled
WICS will have a member in the event for taking pictures and introducing students and Mentor (Ouldooz).
Mobile Web Technical Workshop with Greg Baker
Date: Thursday, July 8
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Place: ASB9804
Prerequisite: Knowledge of basic HTML & CSS
Topics:
- Mobile stylesheets: how to create a separate CSS for mobile devices
- Mobile CSS activity: create one and try it
- True mobile sites: a separate site with device detection
- Apps vs. mobile web sites
Updates:
- Making posters: Done – waiting for approval and print
- Sending an ad on SFU page: We should contact “CSAdvise” to find out how we can do this(Volunteer: Ouldooz)
- Printing and putting Posters(Volunteer: Youna)
- Creating a facebook event (Volunteer: (probably) Queena)
Grace Hopper Conference Updates
Currently there are 9 people interested in attending in the Grace Hopper Conference but only 3 have confirmed scholarships. WICS is thinking about ways to help students to attend GHC. For helping students for attending GHC and having better experience there, WICS decided to:
- Send out emails to students attending the conference to organize the people attending the conference into groups (if they want) for lower hotel costs for students. (Volenteer: Liyang)
- Send out emails to ask for ideas for supporting students (e.g. fundraising) without conference scholarship to attend GHC (Volenteer: Liyang)
Semester End Social Event Planning
Date: after Aug 23, 2010
Place: Not decided yet, but preference is beach party
Activities: BBQ(rejected), fruit + sandwiches is probably the best option for students (to be decided in presence of event coordinator – next meeting)
Enhancing WICS
Wics execs think that for involving more people in WICS we should add more positions in WICS executives. Ideas for the new WICS position included graduate event coordinator and vice president. The possibility of creating an outstanding service award for a WICS member at the end of semester also discussed in this meeting. No decision is been made yet.
In this meeting, WICS decided to send out emails and ask people about how to improve WICS@SFU and use their ideas. WICS will collect the ideas and decide about adding a position or other methods of enhancing WICS in the next meeting.
Queena volunteered to send out the email, collect ideas and report to the group next time.
