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2007 CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop Thanks for Coming! Mary Jane Irwin, PSU Mary Lou Soffa, UVA

2007 CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop Thanks for Coming! Mary Jane Irwin, PSU Mary Lou Soffa, UVA. We need you to …. Fill out & return the survey you were given at registration Fill out & return the workshop evaluation to help us better organize the next workshop

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2007 CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop Thanks for Coming! Mary Jane Irwin, PSU Mary Lou Soffa, UVA

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  1. 2007 CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop Thanks for Coming! Mary Jane Irwin, PSU Mary Lou Soffa, UVA

  2. We need you to … • Fill out & return the survey you were given at registration • Fill out & return the workshop evaluation to help us better organize the next workshop • Volunteer to lead and participate in follow-on activities to keep this a cohesive peer support group • via the CRA-W cohort wiki

  3. We need you to … • Register in the CRA-W database • http://nt.cra.org/Survey/craw/reg.asp • Help spread the word for next year • 2008 Cohort (assuming our sponsors continue to support the Cohort) • late winter/early spring 2008 • Seattle area • a November announcement, December application deadline • encourage 1st year applicants, apply for 2nd year cohort, volunteer to be a student speaker

  4. Ideas for Activities • Self organized email groups/discussion forums • Hot line for answering (confidential) questions • Self organized, regional, f2f get togethers • Birds-of-a-Feather (BoFs) get togethers (meeting, lunch table, dinner) at technical conferences • invite along a senior woman (or women) who is (are) attending the conference

  5. The wiki • https://www.cra.org/wiki • click on CRA-W Grad Cohort • enter name (first and last) and your password • Things to put there • link to your personal web page/picture • pleas for specific help with issues • conference BOF announcements • resource information • area specific senior women resource list

  6. Discipline Specific (Women’s) Workshops • Programming Languages Summer School May 9 - 11, 2007 at the University of Texas at Austin. Application deadline is March 22nd • http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/pl-summer-2007/ • Operating & Distributed Systems Oct 13-14, 2007 at Skamania Lodge, Oregon (immediately before SOSP) • http://www.sosp2007.org/sosp07.html

  7. Other CRA-W Activities • Cohort slides from this workshop will go up in ~2 weeks (and are already there from past workshops) • Career Mentoring Workshop June 9-10, 2007 at FCRC (for junior faculty & senior PhD students) • Check for other programs at • www.cra.org

  8. TonightGoogle/Microsoft Reception Drake Saks St. Francis Macys Be sure to take your badge !!

  9. Thanks Again! • To our wonderful sponsors • Google • Microsoft • and our project co-creator • Jan Cuny

  10. Thanks! • To our special colleagues at CRA • Carla Romero • Mackenzie Colbert • Betsy Bizot • Andy Bernat • and to JoAnne Cohoon, our evaluation focus group leader

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