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

Katie Cunningham kcunningham at csumb.edu
Wed Oct 29 04:06:13 UTC 2014 

Fantastic! Much appreciated. Hopefully I'll have a ton of progress to greet
you :)

I'm very excited. And I want to say: Thanks to you and OpenHatch for all
you do!

Have a great day tomorrow,
Katie

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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