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

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Elena Machkasova <elenam at morris.umn.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Shauna,
>
> looking at the links, I am not entirely sure about a couple of things:
> 1. The curriculum seems to be one day, why is the workshop listed for the
> entire weekend? Is there more to it? (I'd like to reserve the room at this
> point, so it would be useful to know)
>

We'll be running multiple events simultaneously over both weekend days, but
each event will be only a day long, so pick whichever single day suits you
best.  Thanks for pointing out that that's confusing!  I will make sure to
follow up with the other people I contacted and clarify.



> 2. On a related note, would you guys be doing some sort of skype/google
> hangout presentations? This may also affect our room needs.
>

We can but do not need to.  The most common use of hangouts is to do a
remote career panel when there are not enough local mentors.  You can
decide if you would like to do a remote career panel -- it's up to you.

(We're hoping to make a career panel activity in the form of a series of
videos but that's very much on the backburner and probably won't be ready
for this fall's events.)



> 3. What exactly does it mean that we are "signed up" for that weekend?
>

I'm limiting the total number of events that can run on a given weekend for
my own sanity, as I'll be helping to plan all of the events.  At some point
I will say "no more" to events who want to run on that weekend (if there's
that much interest!) but I will definitely be able to support your event.



>
> Many thanks!
>

You are most welcome.  :)




>
> 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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