[Campus-hartnell-staff] Contributions Workshop time

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2014, Shauna Gordon-McKeon wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> 
> wrote:
>
>> Notes mostly for Shauna, but also for anyone else who's interesed:
>>
>> I struggled to find a good solid set of oh-mainline bugs for Hartnell. I
>> did add them to First_Tasks <
>> https://openhatch.org/wiki/First_Tasks#OpenHatch> and make sure the bugs
>> themselves are readable.
>>
>> I'm going to try to add a bunch of Merge Stories tasks, too, and get other
>> mentors to help students with that. Shauna, I hope that's OK with you?
>>
>
> Totally okay.  I also added WelcomeBot back to the sheet (why did you
> delete it?)

I only deleted it because all the bugs that I saw were no longer fresh + 
bitesized. Presuming that you put bugs back, then that's great.

> Some of these issues may get claimed by students from other workshops, 
> but I think they mostly won't be - we have at least three 
> in-person-mentor-led projects at each location, which I think will get 
> the bulk of the contributions.

Cool.

>> Other than that, I plan to find one or two mentors and assign them the 
>> task of getting people to work students through the "Finding a Project" 
>> exercise, and then after that, mostly encourage students to follow up 
>> on that with the 3 "Newcomer Tasks" activities at 
>> https://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/index.html 
>> .
>>
>> Does that pass a sanity check? Am I missing something? Feedback 
>> extremely welcome.
>>
>
> Sounds great.

Yay.

>> * I'll then say, If you have a project in mind that isn't oh-mainline or
>> Merge Stories, or you have ABSOLUTELY no idea what to do and you don't want
>> to do oh-mainline or Merge Stories, you should work in a small group with
>> an instructor on the Finding a Project activity. Then after that, your
>> small group leader will help you pick one of the 3 "Newcomer Tasks"
>> activities or help you find a bug to sink your teeth into.
>>
>
> OpenHatch OR merge stories OR welcomebot (and why did you add 
> openstreetmap or mozilla to this list if you didn't want people to work 
> on it?  is it in the hope of finding a local hartnell mentor to lead 
> those projects?)

Yes, in the hopes of getting a local Hartnell mentor to lead it.

>> P.S. Having written this out, I'm thinking we could totally make an 
>> "Instructor handout" for having instructors do something like the above 
>> at future events, if we like this small-groups structure for 
>> contributions workshop.
>>
>
> Yeah, we could have much better clarity for mentors on what's involved 
> in the contributions workshop.  Lessons learned!

(-:

-- Asheesh.