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

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
<shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,

Hi Shauna!

To echo what you said:

* Monday, November 10th at 6pm Pacific
* Tuesday, November 11th at 6pm Pacific
* Wednesday November 12th at 6pm Pacific

Dear fellow mentors: I whole-heartedly recommend the training events
that Shauna mentioned! Sign-up here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CIM_sQzQPM2X3RFf52otZX8KMJsKfZibvTXtQycuoGs/viewform


Now my answers.

> One person to present our communications tools lecture.

I can do this, but I'd be even happier if someone else is willing to.

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

I can do this, though I see I've already been signed up for "Advanced
Git", which is also OK with me. I presume this means helping people
with more advanced git questions on an ad-hoc basis?

> 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.

I can do this, if we like. My paid experience in open source includes
jobs (~2 years working at Creative Commons, ~1 year working on Miro
Community for the Participatory Culture Foundation, ~1 year working at
Eventbrite where I work with others on open source but most of my work
isn't open source, ~2 years or more depending how you count working
for OpenHatch when it was a startup but our code was open source back
then, too) and internships (Creative Commons, 2006).

For contributions workshop:

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

I'll help people contribute to OpenHatch, if we like. I'm actually
personally even happier to be a "floating mentor", but I'm generally
happiest doing the most useful thing at events, and I know that having
a healthy number of projects represented in person is hugely helpful.

Shauna, I presume to make that work, you'd want me to update the
"First Tasks" page at https://openhatch.org/wiki/First_Tasks to make
sure the OpenHatch section is up to date?


Other remarks about the schedule:

* For the career panel, I recommend we do the "Career Musical Chairs"
approach at https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Career_Panel
. Every time I've done this format, I have seen good conversations
among the small groups, and enthused students. If it helps, I can
write a brief bit of text that the "moderator" can say at the start.

* I see that I have been assigned the task of getting the git activity
set up properly. Sounds good.

* I have a nice camera (Canon digital SLR; f/1.4 portrait lens) that I
can bring, and if _needed_ I can even take pictures, though I imagine
I'll be pretty swamped during the event, so it's probably best not to
assign that role to me.

* I find that 1pm-2pm is late for lunch. Given the 11am start, though,
I guess this makes sense. We should just be sure to announce this
clearly, at the start of the event.

* I suggest that we move the schedule to the main event website
<http://berkeley.openhatch.org/>, so there's only one document to look
at, to avoid them getting out of sync. But if we want to keep them
separate, I am OK with that, too.

-- Asheesh.