URGENT AND IMPORTANT: We are in need of mentors for the hackAuton

[Artur Dubrawski]

Team, we are headed into a full crisis. Your help is necessary!
Thanks in advance.
Artur

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From: Nicholas Gisolfi <ngisolfi at cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: We are in need of mentors for the hackAuton
To: Artur Dubrawski <awd at cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: Jack Good <jhgood at cs.cmu.edu>


Hi Artur,

We are on track to fall short on mentors for the hackAuton.  I have made
repeated appeals to try to support Jack (cc'ed) on the ground this weekend.

We are at risk of needing to close up shop early tomorrow evening after
dinner - we have no one available to help at the evening session and I
don't want to expect Jack to be there himself.  Out of all the Autonians we
sent direct emails to, we only have 3 mentors for the coding sessions:
- Mononito
- Chi-En
- Yeeho

In your meetings today, please encourage Autonians to be present in-person
to help out at the hackAuton.

Thanks,

- Nick

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 5:47 PM Jack Good <jhgood at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to those who have signed up so far! If you are volunteering, we
> want to make sure you have access to the PSC compute resources that will be
> available to the participants. This can take up to 48 hours, so if you
> think there is even a chance you will volunteer, please do steps 1 and 2
> below ASAP.
>
> 1) Head to https://identity.access-ci.org/new-user and follow
> instructions for creating an ACCESS account.
> 2) Send me your ACCESS username.
> 3) After I confirm that you've been added, request a Pittsburgh
> Supercomputing password at https://apr.psc.edu/ using your ACCESS
> username and email address. If it says your username/email combination
> doesn't exist, try again later (this is the up to 48 hour part).
> 4) Connect to Bridges-2
> <https://www.psc.edu/resources/bridges-2/user-guide/> using your
> credentials from terminal $ ssh [username]@bridges2.psc.edu
> 5) Check out the user guide
> <https://www.psc.edu/resources/bridges-2/user-guide/>.
>
> We have a number of CPU and GPU nodes reserved for the duration of the
> event.
>
> Thanks!
> Jack Good
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 2:06 PM Nicholas Gisolfi <ngisolfi at cs.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> We are in need of your expertise for the hackAuton
>> <https://autonlab.org/hackAuton/> this weekend, Sept. 15-17.
>>
>> We will likely have between 30-75 grad/ugrad/HS participants and we need
>> mentors to circulate and help answer any questions they may have.
>>
>> Most importantly, we want to have a strong roster of volunteers for *Friday
>> and Saturday*, when teams will be thinking about which challenge problem
>> they will tackle.  Participants will be thinking about AI Safety,
>> Green/Sustainable ML, and Reducing ML Dev Cycle Time - common meta-topics
>> that weave through many of the lab's projects.
>>
>> Please sign up
>> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mpIzq9M-y1a4oPnaX-Lv5JShpOBjfReu1kTil4cYJ_Q/edit?usp=sharing>
>> so we know who we can count on for each session.
>>
>> I want to thank you in advance for making yourselves available on a
>> weekend - the hackAuton is a really important part of the 30th Anniversary
>> celebrations and we want to create a positive and memorable experience for
>> everyone involved.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> - Nick and Jack, on behalf of the rest of the hackAuton planning team
>>
>
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