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Planning notes for the SC09 Community Group
Group Members: Broadening Engagement (Tiki Suarez-Brown), Student Volunteers (Paul Fussell), Education Program (Charlie Peck), Sustainability (Brent Gorda), Community (Cherri Pancake)
Group Listserv: mailto:sc09community@committee.supercomputing.org
Next meeting - Wednesday August 6th at 4:30p PDT at the Hilton in Portland
Things to do
- Organize a presentation for the steering committee
- what are we doing and why are we doing it
- what's gained/saved/enhanced by it within Community, what are the larger effects of it
- what will we need to do it
- Think about other ways we can collaborate
General themes
- "The whole is greater than the sum of our parts" (our tag line for the committee...)
- Make it easy for participants from each of the the areas to participate in events/presentations of the other areas
- Hold joint events whenever beneficial and practical
- Look for ways to be creative and extend our reach as a result of collaborations
Events at the conference we think we can jointly plan and host
- Job fair - Tuesday evening starting around 5/6p? With food and speakers from industry, labs, etc.
- Poster session - Sunday evening starting around 5p, with food
- Meals
Ideas we're considering
- Joint food for Education Program (through Tuesday), Student Volunteers (through Friday), possibly Broader Engagement too
- Virtual resume wall for all Community participants, organized by educational level, job board too? Consider notion of speed dating for a lunch.
- What can we do with Sustainability? Visualize real-time power consumption and production data?
- Organize schedule of show floor tours - contact vendors and lab representatives in advance
- Space
- Booths near/adjacent to each other
- Education Program and Student Volunteers both need office space
- BE needs central consistent space for specific opportunities and program
- Education needs lots of presentation spaces
- This may require some flexibility/creativity on our part depending on the convention center layout
Inter-group marketing/outreach opportunities
- Broader Engagement's mentorship program
- Broader Engagement's Job Fair
- Steering Committee's PhD fellowship program
- Education Program sessions at the conference (Saturday through Tuesday)
- Education Program summer workshops
- Encourage Cluster Challenge students to participate in our events, are there any other student groups we should include?
- Facebook group for all Community participants, tagged with which group brought them here? (Keep some identity, maybe additive over time)
- Education Program award programs
Events that happen outside of the conference
- BE and Education Program joint workshop in southeast during summer 09
Things to consider changing
- Remove due-date requirement for hotel reservation to occupant mapping
- Move Education Program's keynote to Sunday and combining with Broadening Engagement, invite Student Volunteers too but it won't replace their orientation.
- Leverage additional resources as a unified "SC Communities" front
Oregon Convention Center
- SC Community would use Lobby B and Lobby C, the Education Program booth would be to the left of Starbucks where the non-existent Food Court is shown along the curved wall. The Cluster Challenge would be along the walls outside of Lobby A/B/C.
