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

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

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> 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?
>

Are they not able to make it on Saturday themselves?  If not, we can
certainly tell the students about it, but it would be even better if the
staff member could come.



>
> 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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