Phone conference April 28

Today I had a phone conference with Jean Fahy from the Girlscouts and the new Girlscouts in Computing seminar leader, Anne Hardy. Anne works at SAP and is heavily involved in the women-in-computing effort there. I am very happy to have won her for this. She already proved to be very well organized, going through the list of questions.

Here some notes from today's meeting:

• the conference will be in November
• the location has to be determined. It should be at a hi-tech company. I am contacting Google and Microsoft, Anne SAP and the Computer History Museum.
• we want to limit attendance at ~300! We need to define minimum attendance.
• Financing may be a problem: Feeding 300 people will cost more than the $600 we have from Max. We need to augment from our funds, sponsorships or an attendance fee.
• Legally we are good: the GS have insurance, and we can ask for additional ACM insurance if required.
• GS can also provide first-aid on site.
• By the end of May, we need: description, date, cost, venue and a name!
• speakers: according to Anne not a problem. We are looking for students, practitioners and older, experienced leaders.
• There should be keynotes and workshops. If you know someone who can teach a workshop, or who has achieved happiness or impressive results, please try to recruite her.

We will have another phone call organized by Anne before May 9 or after May 15.

Jean will check for dates in November.

Martin contacts Microsoft and Google.

Anne contacts SAP and CHM.