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

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

> My group would probably get more mileage if I led it on Mozilla instead of
> my side brackets project, if I can still take you up on that suggestion.
> I'll dig through some docs but I've worked with Rhino extensively and
> Chrome otherwise.
>
You can totally take me up on that suggestion.  :)  I know Mozilla has done
a lot of work to be welcoming to newcomers, I'd suggest seeing if they have
any "getting started" pages or "good first tasks" lists that you can point
students towards as well.




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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.
>>
>>
> I invited him, but unfortunately he can't make it on Saturday. He
> mentioned that he maintained a project, and asked to talk to me about it,
> so that's how I learned about Quail.
>
> -Katie
>
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