Date:Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Place: L9014
Meeting Time: 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Secretary: Carmen Tang
Attendees:
1. Queena Wang
2. Amy Li
3. Maryam Hamidirad
4. Zahra Vaseqi
5. Shannon Juzenas
Past WICS Events for Fall 2011 Semester:
- Froshweek Luncheon (Sept 7)
- Clubs Day (Sept 15)
- GHC Information Session (Sept 16)
- Ada Lovelace Day (Oct 7)
Current budget: $2425.87
1. Undergraduate Student Liaison Committe (USLC)
- High school outreach program: we may get more funding
- want us to advertise their Halloween event through Student Affairs
- Queena talked about difficulty getting people involved
2. Ada Lovelace Day Feedback
Date: Friday, October 7, 2011, Time: 10:30am-11:30am
Place: SFU Surrey Room 4070
Feedback:
- Surrey women showed interest in participating in WICS events (Try/CATCH)
- problem is separate campuses: Burnaby, Surrey
- Sue (WICS’s Surrey link) will promote WICS events at Surrey
- also organizing Mentor Lunch with Tamara Smyth @ Surrey
3. Mentor Lunch
Date: late October
Budget: $100
- Anne Lavergne prefers after October 27
- next person to be contacted: Eugenia Ternovska
- Maryam to follow up
4. Technical Workshop:
Date: postponed to: Thursday, November 17, 2011, Time: 1:00-2:30pm
Place: CSIL 9840 (Linux Lab)
Presenter: Evgeny Vinnik
- Evgeny said he will give: presentation + technical demo + one of the following:
1) If they wish to actually code, Evgeny can prepare DVDs with all materials/installations to give away
2) Otherwise, we install for:
a) Android demo: (MacOS/Linux/Windows)
Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/)
Android SDK (http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html)
b) Windows Phone 7 demo: Windows 7/Vista OS only
Windows Phone 7 SDK (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27570)
*note: CSIL 9840 is a Linux Lab
5. Educational Workshop: WICS, WEG, IEEE (SFU & UBC)
Date: Friday, November 18, 2011
Time: 1.5 hour session
Location: SFU Harbour Center
Leaders: (WEG: Eleanor, Rashika, Pevisha, Grace, Riddhi, Tenge), (IEEE: Priyanka), (WICS: Queena)
- Queena to make poster and ads
- input on what speakers should talk about to be given to Eleanor
6. WWEST Partners Funding
We asked for a total of $4850
1) Educational workshop - $250
2) Joint Networking Event - $1600
3) Try/CATCH Outreach Program - $2000
7. Semester-end Social
Date: December 19/20, 2011?
Activity Choices: - curling @ 8-rinks?
- laser tag @ Planet Lazer, New Westminister
- snowshoeing @ Cypress or Grouse mountain
- Carmen to send survey