People List from CSSA Listserv

[Jacob Beauregard]

I've gotten up to 9/2009 for people that posted to the CSSA list, so basically a few months after I graduated. I decided to hasten things, so it's a little less organized than the pre-oct-2003 data. Also, it's not so good as to be current email addresses, but at least gets the people (that sent email on the list). I've made an effort to note/exclude people who requested removal from the list or who were just spamming (there's one Nigerian who's potentially legit, but probably wasn't a UVM student). I'll send it out to anyone interested when we decide what we should do.

 

So, there will need to be volunteers for contacting people hopefully not entirely cold, and a reason for contacting them. The reason answers these questions:

 

What can UVM CS Alumni gain from one another?

What can UVM CS Alumni gain from current CS students at UVM?

 

Meanwhile, how should UVM CS Alumni and CS Students interact? I like the idea of recycling the listserv, and that would require some contact work. Lily likes the idea of using LinkedIn. I have doubts an effective communication system would be as simple as either/or.

 

-Jacob

[kip steele]

No silver bullet here. 

Lehigh uses a list serve. Harvard has a separate app. MIT Uses several options. Champlain uses a Facebook group.super easy and for the most part everyone has an account. Let's start small and iterate. 

 I'm heading into the graduate program at UVM so happy to act aa someone with skin in the game a bit more here. 

Kip

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[Jacob Beauregard]

Speaking of the graduate program, I'm looking into applying this fall or in the spring. The deadline's 10/15 though, I'm taking two courses to finish a second BS (Business Administration post CSIS), and I'm trying to find some good resources to study for GREs.

[kip steele]

To UVM? Check to see if you need a GRE from a graduate advisor since you are already enrolled. I would also start talking to different staff to see what their areas of focus are and who you would like to be your advisor. Grad school is a whole other beast and I've just started the trip myself but very very slowly. 

Kip

[Jacob Beauregard]

First: What's the LinkedIn URL? Another thing to mention is that the list is a list of people and email addresses that were used *once upon a time*. I've got Fall 2009 through Spring 2012 to go through, and we will need to find alternative contact methods for a lot of the names I've come up with that used UVM accounts that are now inactive. It would probably help to partition the final list by time period and then delegate recruitment to anyone who recruited members during those time periods in particular. E.g. I'd be good to contact a number of people who joined around 2006-2009. If Alison is looking to contribute, she'd be an excellent resource for contacting people from the years immediately before I was a student at UVM, and would probably be a better contact even for the officers from when I first joined. Personally, I would also seek to delegate some further network building to Mek, Gary, Robin and/or Tucci if I can get any of them on board, primarily because they all score better on the charisma scale than I do, and because they were still active in the group after I graduated.

From: Robert Erickson
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 1:34 PM
To: Jacob Beauregard <jrbe...@uvm.edu>
Cc: Computer Science Student Association <CS...@LIST.UVM.EDU>; Robert Erickson <Robert....@uvm.edu>; Lily Nguyen <lhng...@uvm.edu>
Subject: Re: People List from CSSA Listserv

 

Why not send a note out to the list and invite them to connect with us via linked in and facebook?

 

https://www.facebook.com/computersciencecrew/

 

Lets see what the response is.

 

 

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