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

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

I'll save most of the questions for Thurs - I'm going to try to take a
non-OpenHatch day tomorrow :) - but I wanted to add you to the folder so
you can access it.  You should have gotten a notification.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Katie Cunningham <kcunningham at csumb.edu>
wrote:

> 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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