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

Wed Oct 29 03:56:28 UTC 2014

Hi Shauna,

Apologies for the radio silence---I've had a really bad case of strep
throat for the past few days. I have made some progress though.

*General focus of event:*

I know that my survey hasn't really been that helpful, but the overwhelming
sense I've gotten from students is that they really want to make a
contribution---something concrete that's their own. The other sense is that
students are really excited to see the mentors from last time again. I
think for the students it's a rare window into the sort of world and
culture of programming in Silicon Valley.

You mention meeting the student where they're at, and I think that's
exactly the right idea. To confirm this I'd like to have some related
questions in the sign-up survey for students. I can get that rolling once I
figure out the google docs (last question in this email).

Shauna, should we set up a video meeting to hammer down the details of the
event? I'm also happy to do this by email, in another thread. I think one
thing I'd like to see is many bite-sized bugs available for students to
sink their teeth into.

*Mentors:*

I have 2 local mentors confirmed, and 2 that are probable (especially if
they can get a ride from SF). I have also sent out emails to a few more
local open source people.

Last time, it was clear that having mentors who were very well-versed were
the most useful. I think the two mentors I've recruited so far are great,
but like me they haven't been immersed in the open source world. If we
could get one more mentor with a high level of experience, I think that
would be great,

I also think we need to get information about the relative skills of the
mentors. I'll send the sign-up survey that asks about skills to all the
recruited mentors I've found.

Finally, I know that Larissa Shapiro was very interested in helping last
time, but had other things come up. I know last time Shauna reached out to
potential mentors like her. Is that something that's happening already, or
something I should do?

*Time/room reservation:*

I've been trying to get a room at Hartnell for the past few days but the
person who is in charge of room reservations has been unavailable. I
believe she'll be able to confirm the room tomorrow (Wed). However, it is
certain that we can get some appropriate room(s) at Hartnell Alisal Campus
for Nov 15. Apologies for the delay, I should have done this first. But I
believe I can put the website together with room TBD for now.

Does the 11-6 time work well, as we did last time (perhaps with 10:30-11
for optional environment setup)? If there's no objections, I'm happy to set
that time and then we can figure out the best way to fill it as we confirm
content.

I think I can move forward with the other updates in the Trello board, and
also copy this info there. One question about that--last time there was a
series of google docs that were incorporated into planning. Is there a
special way to get a new set of those, or should I just make a duplicate of
the old folder and share you on it, Shauna?

Sorry for all the questions, but happy to get the train rolling :)

Best,
Katie

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Katie,
>
> Just wanted to check in on the status of the event, as the trello board
> does not have many things checked off.  How are we on publicity, mentors,
> logistics?  Please let me know if there's anything I can help with.
>
> best
> Shauna
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/a/csumb.edu/forms/d/1tdkKBuNJ2Imv6PZ6DViYGkjIJFw7TiHrPWDFxAnO_lM/viewanalytics#start=publishanalytics
>>>
>>>
>> 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.  :)
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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