[Campus-hartnell-staff] [MENTORS] planning for Saturday

Fri May 2 17:09:37 UTC 2014

Great.  So we're pretty much set, except for having someone take pictures.

For the contributions workshop, the set up will be thus:

* The "Finding a Projects demo":  Asheesh will demo, at the front of the
room, doing this activity with the whole room as his "small group":
https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Finding_a_Project
Then, you'll break off into small groups and go through the activity in
small groups.  By the end of 20 min to half an hour, students should have
contacted in some way at least one project.

* Students will then pause for the rest of the workshop to be introduced.
 Students will be given the option of continuing to investigate the project
they found, or joining a small group:
  - Asheesh working on OpenHatch
  - Katie working on Wikipedia
  - Ryan working on Python tickets
  - Jesse working on the bracket manager

What's key in this second part of the workshop is being attentive to
students and helping them solve their own problems, not immediately knowing
the answers to their questions.  Some questions you can ask to help provoke
thought/further exploration:
* Do you know what this project does?  What interests you about it?
* Have you said hello to the community?  Does it have an IRC channel/have
you joined it?
* Does the project have a guide for contributors?  Have you read it?  Is
there stuff you don't understand?
* Have you tried installing the project/getting it running on your
computer?
* Have you looked through the bug tracker?  Have you found a couple issues
that seem interesting?  (If yes: can you explain what you think is
happening?  Are there parts that you find confusing?)

The contributions workshop should not be framed as an activity with a set
process and a clear solution, the way the earlier activities are.  It is a
process of exploration.  In some ways it's better if you're not an expert
on a project, as you can role model the process of exploration.  If you can
show them how to explore, and show them how much fun you have doing it,
then you'll be successful.  :)

best
Shauna

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Katie Cunningham <kcunningham at csumb.edu>wrote:

> Sorry, I was preoccupied with my organizer hat and forgot my mentor hat :)
>
> 1) I believe I can lead a git group with the mission's guidance. I don't
> have much experience beyond git basics, so if one of those showstopping git
> errors pops up I may need assistance.
>
> 2) I think all but 3 of the attendees know about my job, so probably no on
> the career panel.
>
> 3) I have edited pages on MediaWiki, so I may be in a solid spot to help
> guide Wikipedia contributions.
>
> I just talked to a technology staff member here at CSUMB who works on a
> project called Quail <http://quailjs.org/>. It's a tool to check if a
> website you've designed has everything needed proper accessibility
> (pictures have alt-text for blind users, color scheme doesn't cause
> problems for colorblindness, etc). If a student were to be involved in this
> project, it seems they could get a lot of local mentorship. Do you think it
> would be appropriate to mention this project at some point on Saturday?
>
> Thanks!
> -Katie
>
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Ryan Compton <rcompton at ucsc.edu> wrote:
>
>> 1) Yes I can lead a group on Git
>>
>> 2) Yes I can be on the career panel
>>
>> 3) No projects that would be good for contributions since they are very
>> specific to some research projects. But I can take a look at the Python
>> Tickets project and see if I can familiarize myself with it well enough
>> before Saturday.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback, everyone.  I've updated the responsibilities
>>> sheet, which is now mostly filled out, although it would still be quite
>>> helpful for Katie and Ryan to answer the questions above and/or take a look
>>> at the sheet.  We can definitely use more mentors for various things.
>>>
>>> For people leading small groups teaching git, the current git activity
>>> is this one: http://openhatch.org/missions/git
>>>
>>> For the contributions workshop, here are some projects that have good
>>> documentation about how to contribute.  Would anyone be interested in
>>> taking a little time to familiarize themselves with the project and then
>>> leading contributions to them?
>>>
>>> Python - https://openhatch.org/wiki/Triaging_Python_tickets
>>> Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal
>>> (non-programming tasks)
>>> Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/
>>>
>>> It's okay that you're not expert at these projects - the key is to be
>>> able to role model a good approach for contributing to a new project.  :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Chas Leichner <chas at chas.io> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes to git. Yes to career. No to current project, though I have
>>>> participated in the google summer of code and I could explain that process.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, April 30, 2014, Jesse Gunsch <j at qxlp.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 1) Yes to leading a group through Git.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Yes to being on the career panel.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) I work semi regularly on chromium but that's not really feasible
>>>>> for introductory contributions.
>>>>>
>>>>> I did run a college basketball bracket manager for reddit this year (
>>>>> http://brackets.qxlp.net) which has all its code on github, and could
>>>>> manage some small contributions to that pretty easily.
>>>>> On Apr 30, 2014 9:55 AM, "Shauna Gordon-McKeon" <shaunagm at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've updated the "day of responsibilities" with times for each
>>>>>> activity.  It would be great if all of our volunteer mentors could respond
>>>>>> to this email and answer:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Would you feel comfortable leading a small group of students
>>>>>> through how to use git, by following our git activity?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Would you be interested in being on the career panel/history and
>>>>>> ethics panel?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * Do you have an open source project that you maintain and/or would
>>>>>> feel comfortable helping students contribute to?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> best
>>>>>> Shauna
>>>>>>
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