[Campus-cornell-staff] introductions

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

CCing in two additional mentors, who I forgot somehow.  :)



On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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