[Campus-morris-staff] bringing Open Source Comes to Campus back to Morris

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Hello all!

Last fall you helped us bring our introductory open source event, Open
Source Comes to Campus, to your school.  Since then we’ve done a lot of
work improving our curriculum and our event-planning process.  We’d love to
have another, even better Open Source Comes to Campus event at Morris.

Some of the major changes we’ve made:


   -

   We are no longer running events personally, though OpenHatch people
   still frequently attend events as mentors.  This means we need one or more
   local people to take on the role of lead organizer.  Could it be you?
   -

   To aid in the above, we’ve put all of our curriculum and logistics
   information online.  For instance, this trello board
   <https://trello.com/b/UazH4j3s/osctc-template> lists the specific tasks
   that are done for a typical event. Luckily given Morris's small community,
   many of these can be discarded.
   -

   We provide help in a number of other ways, as listed on the program
   website <http://campus.openhatch.org/>, you can find the details of
   what’s involved in running a full day event, and how we can support you.
   - We’re creating self-guided versions of our entire curriculum.  This
   means, practically, that you’ll never have to worry about a mentor dropping
   out and having to teach something you’re not comfortable with yourself --
   you and the attendees of your event can always go through self-guided
   versions together.

There’s plenty of other changes that I think make our events even better!
 I’m happy to answer any questions you have about this.

A practical note: this fall, we will be running events on three weekends:
 September 13th & 14th, October 18th & 19th, and November 15th & 16th.  We
understand that the process for reserving space varies from school to
school.  Please let us know if you’re generally interested in running an
event and we’ll figure out together which, if any, of those weekends will
work for you.

Looking forward to hearing back from you!

best,
Shauna
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