[Campus-columbia-staff] intro email for organizers and mentors at Columbia event this Saturday!

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Nik Nyby <niknyby at riseup.net> wrote:

>    One person to present our communications tools lecture.  Nik, I’ve
>>    assigned this to you.
>>
>
> Okay that's fine -- I'll do all the research tomorrow night.. there's some
> basic material for this, right? Sorry I haven't read everything and don't
> have time to find it right now. I could also just talk about the things
> that I like to use -- irc and mailing lists.
>
>
Hi Nik - the presentation is here:
http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/comm-tools/#/
The self-guided version of this is essentially the same, but easier to look
through to get an idea of the content:
http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/comm-tools/self-guided.html#/

(There's a lot of material in the presentation version that's in speaker
notes, which you can access by pressing 's'.)




>     People to talk about open source careers.  It looks like Nik is the
>> only
>>    one with paid experience in open source.  Nik, would you feel
>> comfortable
>>    leading a general discussion?  I can also arrange for people to join
>> the
>>    discussion remotely, including folks who have done GSoC or OPW - it’s
>> great
>>    to highlight those opportunities as things that students can do in the
>> near
>>    term.  Nik, let me know what you’re comfortable with.
>>
>
> Yeah it only happened recently that I now have a career writing
> GPL-licensed
> code. Up until now I've worked primarily on proprietary code, using
> permissively-licensed libraries. Software licensing is something I feel
> strongly
> about but I realize it might not be the most interesting or relevant thing
> to these students, but I could give an intro on some of the different
> philosophies.. I think the trend of programmers releasing code with
> permissive
> licenses like MIT and BSD is very detrimental to the community, but I
> don't need
> to talk about that, haha.
>
> But yeah I could lead a discussion on open source careers.


That sounds great.  Last year we had people write down questions and pulled
them out of a hat, which was pretty fun.  :)  It's a good way to make sure
the discussion is student-directed.



>   Nik, did you have a project you wanted to help students
>>  contribute to?
>>
>
> The EmberJS project might be a good candidate for this.. I'm not that
> involved but I know a lot of the people that work on it.
>   https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js
>
> I dunno, though, who would want to work on some "JavaScript framework"?
> I'll
> try and think of something more interesting projects that would be fun to
> contribute to tomorrow.
>

Students who are interested in Javascript would like to, probably.  The key
for students is to get the experience of trying to understand an open
source project, practice using the tools, etc.  It's great when it's a
project they want to stick with long term, and it's great when they're able
to make a contribution at the event, but realistically we can't always
provide that, so we focus on what we can provide: in-person help as they
get used to navigating the world of open source.  :)
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