[Campus-bucknell-staff] next steps

[Melissa Rios]

Hi Shauna,

I've updated the Trello board to reflect our progress.

Budget is confirmed. $822.62 from Bucknell Student Government as well as
$500 from Library and IT. The biggest portion of that will have to go
towards food.

We're having issues with MailChimp currently so we're just doing regular
email for now. We should have a final flyer designed by tomorrow evening
actually. So we'll be starting "hard" promotion then on Facebook, our
organization network site, as well as through listservs.

Volunteer Recruitment: We've gotten two professors confirmed, are in the
talks with a local developer (who would likely only be able to come after
2pm), a Math professor who's had lots of experience with SageMath but has
not promised to come as well. I've been looking for others around the area
like Peggy Fisher at Penn State or Hanna Wallach (who's really cool) but I
don't know the likelihood of them attending.

We'll be sending emails out to Susquehanna and Bloomsburg soon as well.

The proposed schedule might work better since we're lacking in official
mentors right now.

The last thing I wanted to ask because our board seems pretty divided in
terms of what we were under the impression of happening on that day: some
of us are under the assumption that someone from Open Hatch will be
present. Is this true or are we going through the curriculums ourselves and
teaching it to everyone?

Thanks!


*Melissa Rios*
WVBU Webmaster
LAUNCH Vice President
ITEC WordPress Consultant
Bucknell University '16
The Nightingale-Bamford School '12

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks, taking a look at the Trello board
> <https://trello.com/b/tlFBAAuZ/bucknell-osctc-fall-2014> this morning to
> see what I can help push forward with.  We've got...
>
> *Budget* - Last I checked this was not confirmed.  Were you able to get
> funding for the event?
>
> *Publicity* - The website is up and looks great.  We should start sending
> it around! Were you going to use MailChimp for this?  Let me know if you
> need my help.
>
> *Volunteer Recruitment* - We've got people who can help remotely -
> students will be able to work with us to contribute to OpenHatch, Mozilla,
> and more - but as predicted it will be hard to find local volunteers.  Are
> there any professors or staff at Bucknell who are already familiar with
> open source and who would be interested in mentoring?  Let's make sure that
> we recruit anyone we can from the school. Regardless, though, there will be
> a low local mentor to student ratio. That's okay! Let's focus on making the
> curriculum something that's good for individuals, pairs and/or small groups
> to work through together.
>
> *Schedule* - Which leads us to the schedule.  I'd like to propose a
> slightly different structure, to fit your school's needs.  Instead of
> having carefully timed presentations delivered by one person throughout the
> day, it might be better to form small groups and work through self-guided
> versions of the presentations together.  There could be regular breaks and
> check-ins led by you organizers to make sure groups were not getting
> stuck.  Then, in the afternoon, when folks are making their contributions,
> they're used to working in small groups, talking to people remotely, asking
> for help, etc.  Let me know if you'd like to do things this way, and I can
> set up a walkthrough for you.
>
> best
> Shauna
>
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