[Campus-cornell-staff] introductions

[Jisha Kambo]

HI Everyone,
We're meeting *Friday 4-5 PM location TBD*, to finalize the structure and
how everyone is contributing. Again, thanks for signing up! A number of you
have emailed me personally and I'm sorry I haven't responded so I hope the
meeting on Friday is useful. Please let me know if you can't make it that
time on Friday (and then we can be in touch on email instead).

Regardless, please do let us know what your final preference is on the
sign-up spreadsheet below, sorry this is repetitive!
http://tinyurl.com/openhatchmentors
 (leading GIT/ IRC/ issue tracker tutorial / name particular projects you
can help with / skillshare activity that Sauna mentioned below)

If you are helping with a particular project(s), it would be incredibly
helpful if you could put down links to issues using the project database
here
<https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Finding_a_Project#Step_1:_Brainstorming_Projects>
so
these can be passed on to the students. Thank you!

Cheers,
Jisha

On Wed Nov 12 2014 at 3:00:19 PM Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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