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Student Department Informatics

How do I set up a working group?

First, check whether you meet the following criteria:

  • There must be at least 3 of you
  • You are all members of the Informatics Student Department

If these apply, you can create a group on mafiasi.de and request a mailing list. Next, send an email to the Student Council and introduce yourselves briefly (see below for a sample email). Provided there are no objections, you can consider your working group approved. After that, create a wiki page. There are plenty of examples of this :). Finally, it’s best to send another email to the mailing list fs-inf@inf and introduce yourselves to all students (remember to do this in both languages, even if your working group is conducted in German).

Sample email for introduction to the FSR

To: fsr"AT"informatik.uni-hamburg.de

Subject: Setting up a working group [Working group name]

Hi FSR, we’d like to set up a new working group called “[WG Name]”.

Here’s a brief introduction:

[Brief description of our activities, which we can embed here on the page]

Best regards,

[Name]