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

Sat May 3 02:26:00 UTC 2014

This is fantastic! Thank you so much Shauna for all your hard work to bring
this together. I can't believe the event is here already!

I have a big box of local strawberries from the guy who sells them down the
street, and I've scoped out the room. I'm an a student award ceremony right
now, but I'll send out an email with a map of the building and any other
advice I can think of.

Also, Shauna, is the pizza lunch a reimbursement situation?

Thanks again!
Katie
On May 2, 2014 10:09 AM, "Shauna Gordon-McKeon" <shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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