[Campus-morris-staff] bringing Open Source Comes to Campus back to Morris
Elena Machkasova
elenam at morris.umn.edu
Sun Jul 13 17:33:25 UTC 2014
Hi Shauna,
sorry, I misread your email initially: I was overwhelmed by its
(perceived) urgency :-)
Well, then we are exactly on the same page because we were planning on
putting together a workshop along the same lines anyway. I have a couple
of students who volunteered to be on the organizing committee for this,
so we will work on the plans for the September workshop. The links you
have provided are very helpful. I'll let you know in the next couple of
days who's on the organizing committee so that they can be added to the
list (faculty reading this - you are more than welcome to join the
committee).
Sorry about the confusion, and thanks for the organizational help, this
makes our life much easier!
Elena
On 7/11/2014 3:54 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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