advertise the event

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To maximize diversity of applicants we recommend advertising the event as widely as possible. Use listservers, Twitter, institutional websites, posters around campus, word of mouth.

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• some lists we've used for geohack - not all of these will be relevant to FW-HW:

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climlist
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eScience website
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polar science center website
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ioos_tech
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some additional:

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[aaarendt]

Here's the template letter we've used in the past:

Hello,

START WITH GENERAL PARA FOR EACH ANNOUNCEMENT
The University of Washington’s eScience Institute is hosting a GeoHackweek, Sept 11 - 15, 2017. Join us for five days of tutorials, data exploration, software development and community networking, focused on open source tools to analyze and visualize geospatial data. Our event will include instructors from academia and industry across many different geospatial disciplines.

OPTIONAL PARA TAILORED TO THAT SPECIFIC GROUP: THIS IS AN EXAMPLE FOR CROYLIST
Several organizers have expertise in glaciology and can provide guidance on handling of field and remote sensing datasets related to the study of ice.

Please visit our website https://geohackweek.github.io/ for details on how to apply.

Application deadline: June 15, 2017

We look forward to seeing you in Seattle!

YOUR NAME HERE
Anthony Arendt