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

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Hi Elena (and all reading this),

To clarify, we're actually not planning to visit any schools this fall.
 The interest in Open Source Comes to Campus has been amazing, but it's far
more than we can handle if we're physically attending every event.  So
we've been focused on putting all of our materials - curriculum, planning,
etc - online.  This blog post
<http://openhatch.org/blog/2013/open-source-comes-to-campus/> discusses our
reasoning and goals, if you're interested.

We've had a lot of success with this methodology.  We've had five events
run without any of us present, and several more where Asheesh or I
functioned as a mentor.

The three weekends I quoted are dates where we'll be running multiple
events simultaneously (we've also successfully done this, this past
spring).  We can definitely reserve you a spot on that September weekend!

Please keep me updated, and let me know if you have any questions - I'm
happy to answer in as much detail as needed.  :)

best
Shauna




On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Elena Machkasova <elenam at morris.umn.edu>
wrote:

> Just a preliminary note, however: I looked at the calendar, and of the
> three weekends you are proposing Oct 18-19 doesn't work for us: it's right
> before the fall break. Things get very busty in November, so if are to do
> it here, the Sept one works the best (and avoids exposing you guys to MN
> winter :-) ). So, could you hold that date for us while we figure things
> out?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Elena
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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