[Campus-berkeley-staff] introductions for mentors & organizers at Berkeley

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Hi everyone,

Thank you for volunteering for the Open Source Comes to Campus event on
Sunday, November 16th at Berkeley!  I wanted to send out a quick email to
introduce you all to each other and open up a space for you to talk and ask
questions about the event.  I’ve also added you all to our mailing list,
campus-berkeley-staff at lists.openhatch.org
<campus-iub-staff at lists.openhatch.org>, where we’ll be discussing things,
coordinating, etc going forward.  You should have gotten a notification -
if you didn’t, check your spam folder.

We’ve got a bunch of great people involved in this event. James Maa is the
point person for Hackers at Berkeley, who are hosting/helping to organize the
event. James will be there on the day of the event and is your goto person
for logistical questions like “How do I find the location?”  I won't be
there myself, but I'll be helping remotely from Boston, and Asheesh Laroia,
co-founder of OpenHatch, will be there in person as well. Additionally,
we've got a bunch of other folks mentoring, from local professionals to
Berkeley staff and faculty and students. Please feel free to introduce
yourself!

I have a few questions for each of you as well, to help us figure out who’s
going to do what on the day of the event.  Here are links to the basic
schedule of the event
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xUyd5lMSoTX3GZsleNgBQDtlwd9DNhWFJNv8i0Tmq_4/edit>
as well as explanations of different activities
<https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum>.  We
also offer completely optional trainings for these activities.  If you’re
interested, please go ahead and sign up here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CIM_sQzQPM2X3RFf52otZX8KMJsKfZibvTXtQycuoGs/viewform>
.

What we’re looking for are:



   -

   One person to present our communications tools lecture.
   -

   At least eight people who feel comfortable enough with git to lead a
   small group of students through our git activity.
   -

   At least four people who’ve had paid experience in open source (jobs,
   internships, fellowships) who are willing to talk about that for our career
   panel.


Please let me know if you’d like to do any of those things!

I’d also like everyone to let me know what they’d prefer to do for the
contributions workshop.  There are three options:



   -

   Help students contribute to a specific project, either one you’re a
   maintainer/contributor for, or one we can help you get to know.
   -

   Help students learn a specific type of task, either: improving project
   accessibility
   <http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/newcomer-tasks/accessibility/#/>,
   improving project setup instructions
   <http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/newcomer-tasks/setup/#/>,
   cleaning issue trackers
   <https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Newcomer_Tasks/Issue_Tracker_Cleaning>,
   translating software <https://openhatch.org/wiki/Translate_software>.
   -

   Be a “floating mentor” who walks around the rooms and helps individuals
   as needed.


If folks could respond with their preferences by Sunday night, that would
be fantastic.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

best,
Shauna
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