Dear ACM-W SC,
The preparations of womENcourage 2021 are on its way and it
is a truly exciting journey. We have a couple of points to
bring to your hands for your next SC meeting:
1. Conference Chairs
We are happy to announce that Olga (Olga Maximova) and I
(Barbora Buhnova) will serve as the conference chairs. You
have our email contacts in the CC, my ACM membership number
is 8940879. These emails work as google identities, so
please use them to give us edit access to the ACM
womENcourage 2021 google drive folder so that we can
populate it with our organization information (if we
understand correctly that you prefer all our organization
happening there), i.e.:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1fBHtWV2hmSqy_4_Ooqhc374AKOkfIyhI
2. Organizing Committee
Once we have access to the folder, we will move there also
the list of our organizing committee roles and members. You
can find the current copy attached, so far avoiding the
surnames and contacts of the candidates due to the control
over the privacy of this information.
3. Theme
We propose the theme of the celebration to be “Bridging
communities to foster innovation”, because that is something
which we (Czechitas) are strong in. Please let us know if
you agree.
4. Website and logo
The logo and the website are being designed now. Soon we
will share with you how we envision it. Regarding the
website, the responsible person on our side is Marek Sedlak
(also in CC). Could you please pair Marek with the past
website chair or a person in the SC responsible for the
website, so that they can synchronize on the expected
content and technical details? Thanks a lot!
5. Monthly meetings
We would like to find the day and time of our monthly
meetings and plan the first one. We have a number of points
that we would like to discuss in the first meeting with you
(we will populate them in a document in google drive folder
once we have edit access). We propose the monthly meetings
to be on Fridays (once a month) if we are able to find a
timeslot fitting you, the SC. We are flexible with time,
could you please tell us what time slots are possible on
Fridays for you?
6. Communication
Which email(s) shall we use to send these monthly reports
and communicate with the SC? I now use the emails I have
from our previous conversation, but likely there is a better
way - an SC mailing list? Or just the chair of the SC? A
dedicated person on your side?
Thank you very much for your support!
Bara and Olga
womENcourage 2021 Conference Chairs