D2BD Kickoff Meeting minutes

Attending:

Kenny (Microsoft) phone
Anna () phone
Katharina Rock (SAP)
Laura Deck (IYF)
Martin Stein
Anne Hardy (SAP)
Diana
(Intuit)

ACM-W – not directly important for the conference, but important for their marketing.

Underserved commmunities: Contra-costa county (arrange busses), E-PA. Appoint one volunteer of the steering commitee. Anna will look into it. We have to set up: chaperone on busses, rent bus, insurance, logistics. Laura D will take it on.

Sponsorship commited: SAP, Cisco,

Sponsorship under discussion: Google,  Intuit, Symantec,  Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe.

Fee: $20 - idea: add a  fee waiver.

Production: web site. (TODO Laura)

How many volunteers? 1 per 10 girls for chaperon. 50 total?

Colleges for volunteers: foothill, de anza (Kenny talked to them), SJ state (MIS dep, Kenny), Stanford?,  -- problem only 20% women in student body.

High schools: hire girls in science and math from high school. $500 for college?

ACM student chapters! (TODO MS)

Academy of information technology: San Francisco group of schools.

Guidelines:

Hands-on workshops

Movement

Keynotes - upto 1h, entertaining: Pixar, Facebook

Train the trainer: Lynn Langit, Michelle

Schedule:

Keynote

Pixar, Microsoft/Milo,

Ignite talk format? See here or here

One in the morning and one at the end.

Have to decide how many workshops per day (2  or 3).

Surprising inventions women have done?

Length of workshops? 60 – 90 minutes.

Hand out a book funded from donations.

Possible topics:

* Pervasive computing (computers everywhere). Nokia! (TODO: MS, AH). Take pictures and post to a server.

* Robotics, Sun-spots from sun labs?

* Social networking

Workshops fill in the blanks in a existing program.

* Tina Seelig – infectious action – problem is that high-school girls are somewhat shy and inhibited in groups.

* Google Earth – street view – microsoft touch?

Parent track:

Security

Teachers – how collaborate in the classroom

TTT – train the trainer session

Raising girls without preconceived notions.

ACM participation? Career prospects. (TODO MS). STEM program. (TODO AH)

Gifts:

meaningful giveaway, desirable.

Backpack? Bag?

Sponsorship

Max $5000, less possible.

$20k bare minimum (Laura)

Martin