Send out an email to sipb-announce@mit.edu, mentioning date, time,
place, name, etc. Sound excited and enthusiastic. Add a "tl;dr" for
-lazy people.
+lazy people. They traditionally start 1pm and go until 11pm or so. Any earlier and people don't wake up early enough and the office is lonely.
Create a Facebook event. You probably want to be an administrator of
the SIPB Facebook group for this.
Expenses:
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-SIPB allocates $150 to a hackathon. Most of this should be used on
+SIPB allocates $150 to a hackathon (assuming approval of the vice-chair).
+Most of this should be used on
food (see below). If you have extra money, you can be creative. For
Hackasaurus Rex and Velocihacker, we purchased prizes off of ThinkGeek
and raffled them off on the hour. It was reasonably popular.
button on pages that don't exist. To create a new page, go directly
to
- https://sipb.mit.edu:444/ikiwiki.cgi?do=edit&page=<PAGE>
+ http://sipb.mit.edu/<NEWPAGENAME>
+
+and click on the question mark.
To add a redirect on a page, the wiki code you want is
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Encourage discussion on zephyr, either on -c sipb or
--c <HACKATHON_NAME>.
+-c $HACKATHON_NAME. Don't spend a bunch of time trying to get people set up on zephyr. Consider asking Matt Goldstien (austein) to set up a gateway from a zephyr class (not -c sipb) to an AIM gateway.
Social stuff:
regulars to get into a niche and for new people to feel excluded. Try
to make sure that that doesn't happen.
+Someone should try to help people find projects they are interested in.
+One way to do this is to have enthusiastic happy person who knows whats going on at the door greeting people, asking what their interested are and routing them to the people leading those projects.
Afterwards:
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