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

Sun Nov 16 16:05:02 UTC 2014

Alex Yang, the student organizer from Hackers @ Boston, will be taking care
of food.  I believe we're doing breakfast and lunch, though I could be
mistaken about that.

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> 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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