[Campus-cornell-staff] introductions

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Hi everyone,

Thank you for volunteering for the Open Source Comes to Campus event on
Saturday, November 15th at Cornell!  I wanted to send out a quick email to
introduce you all to each other and open up a space for you to talk and ask
questions about the event.  I’ve also added you all to our mailing list,
campus-cornell-staff at lists.openhatch.org
<campus-iub-staff at lists.openhatch.org>, where we’ll be discussing things,
coordinating, etc going forward.  You should have gotten a notification -
if you didn’t, check your spam folder.

We’ve got a bunch of great people involved in this event.  Women in
Computing at Cornell (WiCC) is hosting this event, and Jisha Kambo and
Susan Chiang are leading that effort.  Jisha and Susan will be there on the
day of the event (I’ll be helping remotely from Boston) and are your goto
people for logistical questions like “How do I find the location?”  We’ve
got a few different mentors coming to the event from around the Ithaca
area, as well as from Cornell itself - feel free to introduce yourselves!

This event is a bit shorter and more informal than our typical workshops,
running from 12pm to 3pm.  What we’re going to be doing is having tutorials
and project-hacking running in parallel.  So, we’ll need mentors to lead
tutorials, as well as mentors to help students work on specific projects.

We’re looking for:

   -

   1-3 people to lead students through how to use git
   -

   1-3 people to go over communications tools like IRC and issue trackers
   -

   3-5 people who have projects they’d like to help students contribute to**


People presenting the tutorials will do so between 12-1:30, and can help
with projects from 1:30-3:00.  People not presenting/helping with tutorials
will help with projects the whole time.

You can read explanations of different activities
<https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum> as well
as ask me any clarifying questions you have.  If you’re not comfortable
actively presenting, students can go through the self-guided versions and
just ask for help as needed, but we do recommend taking a more active
role.  So let me know if you’re comfortable helping students and also
whether you’re comfortable actively presenting vs helping if they get
stuck.  :)

** If you don’t have a project for students to contribute to, consider
leading a skillshare activity, either: improving project accessibility
<http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/newcomer-tasks/accessibility/#/>,
improving project setup instructions
<http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/newcomer-tasks/setup/#/>,
cleaning issue trackers
<https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Newcomer_Tasks/Issue_Tracker_Cleaning>,
translating software <https://openhatch.org/wiki/Translate_software>.  You
can also be a “floating mentor” which means you walk around chatting with
attendees and helping them when they get stuck.

If folks could respond with their preferences within the next day or two,
that would be fantastic.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

best,
Shauna
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