[Campus-hartnell-staff] planning another Open Source Comes to Campus event for the fall

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Katie Cunningham <kcunningham at csumb.edu>
wrote:

> Sorry about the link, I think it should be visible now. There aren't too
> many responses yet, but the ones so far are focused on actually making a
> contribution during the session. I would guess that it's our most confident
> students who are writing those responses.
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> https://docs.google.com/a/csumb.edu/forms/d/1tdkKBuNJ2Imv6PZ6DViYGkjIJFw7TiHrPWDFxAnO_lM/viewanalytics#start=publishanalytics
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I believe strongly in meeting students where they're at, so we should make
sure to facilitate their making contributions.  If these are the most
enthusiastic students, we can try having a conversation with them ahead of
time and set them up talking to projects they want to contribute to,
whether that's OpenHatch, or one of our affiliated projects.

If these students are already familiar with the materials in our morning
tutorials, they can either help other students during tha time, or get to
work on contributing at the beginning of the day in a dual-tracked manner
like we had at CCSF.

Basically, we need to communicate with these folks so we can help them get
what they want out of the day.  :)



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>>
> I really like this idea. And I'm happy to have ours be the test run if
> this is the first time.
>

Awesome.  Perhaps you can be the mentor who takes the lead on this during
the contributions workshop?  Let's make sure that Asheesh and I host the
train-the-trainers session on the contributions workshop modules at a time
when you can attend.



> Yes, I need to start hustling on recruiting mentors. I have started
> reaching out to local people and I will continue. I have some people in
> mind, and I hope to have a few confirmed shortly.
>
> In our program, we are also reaching out to SV/SF tech companies in an
> effort to have them partner with us. The idea is that if companies really
> want to move the needle on diversity on their companies, they can't only
> recruit from the most elite colleges---they need to look into broad/open
> access colleges like Hartnell and CSUMB. It's where the diverse students
> overwhelmingly are.
>

I'm very glad to hear about this.  Have you had much luck so far?  If any
of the companies are open source or at least open source friendly, they are
welcome to send their mentors to our events.



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>> OpenHatch is going to start running live trainings for our curriculum via
>> a combination of IRC and hangouts, and we'd love to include some folks from
>> your area (including you, if you would like to participate/think you could
>> benefit from it).  In the end, past experience/expertise matters very
>> little.  What's important is an enthusiasm for open source and an interest
>> in teaching others - that's innate to people, we can teach the rest.  :)
>>
>
> I would be happy to participate! I will also spread the word about the
> training to local people as well.
>

Great.  I'm going to send out an email about this in the next day or so.

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> Would you like me to keep track of progress on a Trello board? My goals
> for this week are: confirm room, create webpage, get 2 yeses from my
> friends or local people as mentors, and start recruiting students to attend.
>

Here's a trello board:
https://trello.com/b/6UacR6N4/hartnell-college-nov-2014  I've added you to
it.

Feel free to assign me to things!  :)







>
> Best,
> Katie
>
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