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

[Asheesh Laroia]

Hi everyone!

I'll get to the room at ~10am, and we can figure out anything that still
needs figuring out at that point.

I was looking at the "Day Of" responsibilities doc <
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xUyd5lMSoTX3GZsleNgBQDtlwd9DNhWFJNv8i0Tmq_4/edit>,
and I had some suggestions/questions:

* Ordering food: Is someone assigned to take care of this? If not, I
nominate Alex Yang. I presume we're just doing lunch, not breakfast, as it
starts at 11:30am.

* Taking pictures: I'll bring my camera. I hope someone else will be
willing to use it, as I often forget to.

* "Introduction / Open Source Communication Tools" -- this is mostly
lecture-y, so we don't need as many mentors around during this. Having said
that, it might be a good time for mentors to be quietly working on making
sure they have a solid plan for the later, high-risk part of the day, the
"Contributions Workshop," since during the Contributions Workshop students
will be contributing to open source projects for the first time, and there
are a great number of possible stumbling blocks that can pop up.

* "Career Panel" -- we'd probably do well to have even more people willing
to be mentors for this. The idea is that students will chat with mentors in
small groups, learning more about their personal history with open source
and how it has fit into their career. It'd be nice if we could get a few
people, so we could make the small groups even smaller.

* Lunch -- we do need to make sure this gets taken care of!

* Git -- I'll bring printed copies of student & instructor handouts. I'll
work with instructors tomorrow morning to make sure we're all on the same
page. Thanks to these people for volunteering: Katy Huff, Jess Hamrick,
Min, Matt Davis, Lauren Hallet, Sebastian Benthall, Elizabeth Leddy, Nihil
(floating)

* Contributions Workshop -- thanks hugely to all the people for
volunteering on this!


Nihil, sorry that I didn't manage to meet up with you in the past couple of
days to discuss the schedule & mentor training in more depth. If you'll be
there in the morning, we can do that then.

All -- I'm looking forward to this. Thanks to everyone on this list.

-- Asheesh.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
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