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

Thu Oct 30 18:27:00 UTC 2014

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.
>

Oof.  Hope you're feeling better!

> *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.
>
>
Well, Asheesh is definitely coming again, and we'll ask all the other
mentors back as well.  :)

> 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.
>

I'm all for focusing on contributions.  We pulled this together for
October's events, and many are still active:

https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Tasks_for_Oct_18th

I have a slight preference for email, as it makes it easier to keep track
of what was said.  Please do start another thread.  :)

>
> *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.
>

We should be able to provide rides to 3-4 people coming from SF, not
including Asheesh.

>
> 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,
>

That should be doable.  Asheesh, do you want to chime in here with
suggestions?

>
> 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?
>

I've not reached out to anyone in particular yet.  If you would like me to,
please let me know (including any details like "high level of experience"
listed above) and Asheesh and I will figure out who makes sense to ask.
Since you already know Larissa, I'd suggest that you be the one to contact
her.

>
> *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.
>
>
As long as you're sure we'll have a room, that's good enough for me.  :)

> 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.
>

Sounds good!

> 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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