[Campus-bucknell-staff] next steps

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Also, here are a couple of local meetup groups we might be able to find
mentors at:

http://www.meetup.com/Plone-Users-Group/
http://www.meetup.com/Central-PA-Hadoop-and-Big-Data-User-Group/
http://www.meetup.com/Harrisburg-WordPress-User-Group/
http://www.meetup.com/cp-lug/
http://www.meetup.com/Bloomsburg-Coffee-and-Code/

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Melissa Rios <mr043 at bucknell.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> This is great.  I think it's unlikely that we'll need anywhere near that
> much, FYI - typically events with 30-50 people cost $400-600 for 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.
>>
>
> This sounds good to me.
>
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>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I didn't realize Hannah Wallach was in the area!
>
> How many student organizers do you have?  At least three, right?  So
> that's at least five folks willing to take some sort of lead, which is good
> - people can help each other learn, but someone needs to be willing to say
> "and this is what we do next".
>
> Let me know if folks would like to meet to go over the curriculum so they
> feel more prepared for the day.
>
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
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> What is the setup of the room like?  I think this schedule will work very
> well for your situation, but might be harder to do in lecture-style rooms
> than rooms with round tables or where you can push tables together.
>
>
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>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> The latter.  Unfortunately there are no OpenHatch volunteers near you.
> I'm the only staff member OpenHatch has, and I can't attend every event -
> or most events.  But we've now had nearly a dozen schools run their own
> events without an OpenHatch person present, and they seem to have gone very
> well.  Please let me know if there are any aspects of running the event
> that you're worried about and we can go through them in as much detail as
> you need.
>
> ~ Shauna
>
>
>> 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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