GSoC14 promotional talk for the Suisse Romande

[Veronica Estrada]

Hello everybody!

I hope you are well and you all enjoy a nice holiday season. 

I am organizing a GSoC promotional talk for the Suisse Romande. Who wants to participate and help to spread the word?

Last year, Spyros (CERN), Wookie (ETHZ /M-LAB), Emanuel (a colleague from my lab) showed interest. Wolf (Google) was tempted to come, specially if we organise a fondue :) Well… I didn’t obtain budget for fondue but my supervisor said he has budget to provide pizzas in the event :) I hope that will convince Wolf to visit Neuchatel and kindly bring some Google merchandise. 
 
The tentative date is Wed 26.2, 18h-20h, venue University of Neuchatel. What do you think? Is it convenient for you?  Date was chosen considering that students start the semester on 17.2 and the application for GSoC is between 10-21 of March.  

First need is to fix the date so I can print posters and submit them to other universities. The talk will receive publicity in the Benefri network (University of Bern, University of Neuchatel and University of Fribourg), University of Lausanne, University of Geneve and the University of Applied Science Western Switzerland.

My lab is also applying as a mentoring organisation this year. If we get acceptance Etienne and Valerio (UniNE) will include a short talk regarding SPLAY, our source code project.

Best wishes,

Verónica 

[Seon-Wook Park]

Hello Veronica,

This is great news! Hopefully we'll be able to bump Swiss participation up this year. :)

I should be available on Wednesdays, and am definitely still willing to come.

I've cc-ed Wolf and Iurii as they're not on our list yet.

Best,

Wookie

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[Veronica Estrada]

Iurii, Wookie and Spiros, thanks for your answers.

Anyone else in the list is interested in giving a talk about GSoC experiences?

The date for GSoC event is not fixed. We can move it to Friday if is more convenient.

I include in the mail the people from UniNE who will participate in the talk (previous student / future mentors).

Who prefer on Friday 28/2, 18-20h? Who prefer on Wednesday 26/2, 18-20h?

Please vote!

For me both days are ok: Wed and Fri.

Cheers,

Verónica

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Iurii Chernyi <che...@google.com> wrote:

> I've cc-ed Wolf and Iurii as they're not on our list yet.

> The tentative date is Wed 26.2, 18h-20h, venue University of Neuchatel.

Hi, I'll not be available on Wednesday evening, sorry (as I've started some evening German classes on Mondays/Wednesdays)

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[Veronica Estrada]

Hello,

It's me again. Friday is neither a good option for UniNE speakers, nor for students who return home during the weekend. 

If some of you want to come but is not possible on Wednesday 26/2, we can move it to Thursday. Let me know your thoughts.

Which day is better?

Cheers,

Verónica 

[Spyros Gasteratos]

Hi,

Since friday is not a good option, then I'm cool with either of wednesday/thursday  :-)

Cheers,
Spyros

[Seon-Wook Park]

I can make Thursday work.

While we're busy CC-ing everyone, I'd like to advertise gsoc-ch (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/gsoc-ch) a group made for all things GSoC in Switzerland!

I'd highly recommend anyone who hasn't joined it yet to join up :)

On 21 January 2014 15:20, Iurii Chernyi <che...@google.com> wrote:

Thursday would be fine for me

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Valerio Schiavoni <valerio....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

wednesday/thursday is fine for me as well.

best,

Valerio

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[Veronica Estrada]

Thank you for your answers! It will be great to repeat the event for people living in this area. I am sure we will increase the number of participants this year.

We fix the event's date for Thursday 26/2 18h-20h. I will start printing posters and give enough promotion to our event. 

Up to know we are 7 confirmed speakers: Spyros, Iurii, Wookie, Emanuel and me for GSoC experiences and Etienne and Valerio for GSoC future mentoring on Splay (this part of the talk will be confirmed on 24.2 when we get Google list of accepted organizations).    

BTW, I also encourage you to join the gsoc-ch group (in case you haven't done it yet) to get updates related with local news of GSoC.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/gsoc-ch

Best wishes,

Verónica

[Veronica Estrada]

Just a typo: 

Date is Thursday 27/2 18h-20h

Cheers,

V

[Veronica Estrada]

Hello everyone,

I did a website to promote the gsoc event: https://sites.google.com/site/gsocneuchatel/

You can also find the event in facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/720098028068168/

Please promote feel free to promote the event. 

Best, 

Verónica

[Veronica Estrada]

Hello!

I will print the posters to promote the event tomorrow. 

Do you have any comment?

Cheers,

Verónica

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Seon-Wook Park <seon...@swook.net> wrote:

[Spyros Gasteratos]

On 02/04/2014 07:59 PM, Iurii Chernyi wrote:
> Hi, Veronica
>
> I'd write '$5500 (and a T-shirt)' instead of the word 'stipends', to
> attract a bit more attention.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Seon-Wook Park <seon...@swook.net> wrote:
>
>> Looks good to me.
>>
>> Great work! :)
>>
>> Best,
>> Wookie
>>
>> On 4 February 2014 19:53, Veronica Estrada <estrada....@gmail.com>

>>>>>>>>>>>> specially if we organise a fondue :) Well... I didn't obtain

I agree with Seon, it looks better if it has the actual sum.

[Veronica Estrada]

Thanks for the coments! This is the new version. I add the "sweet incentives" and also include the word students, just in case a retired dude see the poster and wants to participate ;)

cheers,

v

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