Date:Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Place: TASC-9204West
Meeting Time: 4:30 - 5:30 pm
Secretary: Carmen Tang

Attendees:
1. Zahra Vaseqi
2. Carmen Tang
3. Maryam Hamidirad
4. Carrie Wang
5. Shannon Juzenas
6. Eleanor Li
7. Greg Baker
8. Anny

1. WICS/WEG Networking Night Feedback
Date: January 19, 2012
Budget: $300 from WICS (+ $300 from WEG)
Breakdown of WICS’s budget:
- gift cards: $50 (Ouldooz)
- guest gifts: $71.05 (Ouldooz)
- posters: $13.99 (Zahra)
- flowers: $107.10 (Carrie)
- food: $ ??.?? (Elahe)
Turnout: ~50 people (including panelists) for panel session, ~60 for networking
Feedback: - well organized, lots of positive feedback from attendees
- lacking CS speakers - would like more focus on technical things (interviews, hiring process)
- WICS should invite speakers 3 months before event
- Thursday nights are good
To-do: create a timeline and upload photos to website

2. Funding
- FAS - check proposal sent by Zahra (by January 30)
- Regional Opportunities Fund - check email sent by Carmen

3. Spring 2012 Events Brainstorming
Past: Networking Night
- Clubs Day
Next: Network event with Microsoft (February 7)
- International Womens’ Day (March 8th)
- Technical workshop (Intro to UNIX?)
- Mentor Lunch?
- an event to recruit/inform non-CS students about what Computing Science is, since our courses are taken by students in many other faculties
- Radio Show (ask Ouldooz for report for next meeting)
- Yoga/Dance sessions during the semester, alternate with WEG?
- WICS/WEG/MISA Social Event (March?) - wine&cheese night, or cocktail&boardgames?

4. International Womens’ Day
Date: March 8, 2 hour-session?
Budget: $200 for lunch+cake+prizes
Schedule:
- Intro presentation
- tech talk: Grace Hopper keynote
- small presentation about some famous women
- party games, then food/prizes

5. Microsoft event with WICS/WEG
Date, Time: February 7th, 4:00-6:00pm
Room: TASC-9204 (expect ~50 attendees)
- we are advertising that this event is focused on women, but open to everyone to attend
- Carmen to email Heidi about: food, MS budget, parking pass, poster (we make unless they have one), panel chair, event time
- Carmen to edit websurvey
- Maryam to create poster
- Eleanor to create email to students and get gifts from department
- 1weg+1wics member to get food for the event

Place: TASC-9204E
Meeting Time: 2:30 - 3:30 pm

Attendees:
1. Greg
2. Lisa
3. Renee
4. Shannon
5. Sumo
6. Tiphanie

I. Report:

• Purchased 20 movie tickets as prices
• Latest version of poster/letter head/publication/etc. in DropBox
• Try/Catch website updated
• Contacted some companies

II. Meeting Discussions/Conclusions:

• Event time/date confirmed: Apr 28th @ 10:30 - 6:00pm
• Discussed some high school promotion strategies
• In addition to mailing, will also email packages to IP teachers/councilors for more effective advertisement
• Next meeting to be held on Jan 25th Wed @ 9-10

III. To-do’s:

Publicity

• Each of us should take a look at the materials in DropBox and inform Tiphanie of desired changes
• Confirm and ask for better discounts at UPS print shop
• Will consult Carmen about other possible print shops; otherwise, will print at UPS
• Print posters/publications by ~Jan 26
• Sponsorship names to be obtained

Workshop

• Need to find lecturer for the HTML 5 workshop; will ask Anne if she’s interested

Administration

• Setup web registration
• Will book atrium through Tracy