Activities Fair
When
Activities fairs occur in the fall and spring. In the fall, it's generally the first Wednesday after Labor Day. In the spring, it's sometime in early January. They tend to run 4:30-6:30pm, with setup at 3:30. Both are worth going to, but the fall one is vastly better attended.
Who
We generally need 2-3 people at the table at all times to answer questions and hand out flyers. In practice, this means about 5 people should make an appearance at various times. Having a few people at the very start is helpful for carrying stuff.
What to bring
Flyers (see Club Propaganda)
- Fall: about 100, Spring: about 50
print these in advance -- days or hours before -- seriously
Signup sheet (see Club Propaganda)
print these in advance -- days or hours before -- seriously
- 11x17 logos, usually two to affix to the table and another to hang from the table (cardboard or manila file folders are useful here)
- A few machines (we usually bring the SGI Indy, a small VAX, and a Sun IPC) and some random manuals (VMS is always fun)
- Scotch tape
- Beefier (e.g., packing) tape to hang logo sign from table
Afterward
First create the mailing list (see Computer Club Administrative Stuff/Mailing Lists).
Then send some messages to it. The following should serve as starting points for copypasting:
Greetings from CMU Computer Club, Thank you for showing interest in the club. We know you are probably receiving lots of emails like this, so we'll keep this brief and to the point: Computer Club focuses on hands-on Computer experience, from server operations to retro computers. Whether you are at Carnegie Mellon to study computers or just find them to be interesting, we can provide you with useful practical experience and lots of fun playing with cool toys. To get involved, you should show up to machine room hours. These occur every Saturday at 5pm in Cyert B6 (just follow the signs towards academic development). Here we will give you a Computer Club account and help you get started on a project of interest to you. Projects range from writing software for ancient retro platforms to setting up modern server infrastructure. You might also be interested in our talk series. Here we try to present practical computer skills and other topics which are omitted from classes at CMU. For a schedule, see: http://club.cc.cmu.edu/talks If you are extra eager to get involved, poke around our website. Feel free to come to any of our meetings. http://club.cc.cmu.edu Regards, Christian Preseau CMU Computer Club President P.S. If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, simply send a message to announces15-unsubscribe@club.cc.cmu.edu and you'll never heard from us again. But we promise not to spam you much if you stay.