[Campus-morris-staff] Would you be willing to be a mentor at an Open Hatch event in Morris next month?

[Elena Machkasova]

Hi Melissa,

thank you for the tools links! I am forwarding this to the staff list since
they may be useful in many contexts.

As for the projects: your suggestions for students with no/little
programming experience are excellent. The other options include adding
documentation based on other resources, adding art work, translating
documentation (for those with foreign language skills).

We are getting some sign-ups already, and we will take a look at the list
at the end of the week to see how many of students with little/no
experience we've got. This will be useful for setting up the project list.
This resource from Open Hatch may also be helpful:
https://openhatch.org/search/

I hope we will continue project discussion on this list since it is really
crucial to the success of the workshop. Many thanks!

Elena


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Melissa Voegeli <
melissa.a.voegeli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Elena,
>
> I wanted to share a few super cool tools that would be great to pass along
> to the students. Not sure if there is time to specifically bring them up at
> Open Hatch, so I thought I would at least share them with you now.
>
> http://www.codetriage.com/ - Allows you to pick a project you're
> interested in, categorized by language. Once you pick a project, CodeTriage
> will send you an email everyday with a new link to an open issue that needs
> to be triaged as well as instructions on how to triage the issue.
>
> http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/ - An app that allows
> beginners to visually grasp the concepts on branching.
>
> -Melissa
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 6:43 PM, Melissa Voegeli <
> melissa.a.voegeli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Elena,
>>
>> Thanks again for giving us the privilege of being part of this workshop.
>> It is incredibly important to show students how awesome open source is. I'm
>> comfortable sharing my experiences with contributing to OS on the career
>> panel, as well as being a Git/IRC mentor. I am not interested in leading a
>> open source project at this time.
>>
>> However, I want to make sure I understand what will be going on in these
>> projects. My assumptions are the following:
>>
>> For students with no programming experience:
>> 1. Reading up on documentation to possibly fill in the gaps or make
>> corrections
>> 2. Triage bugs by reproducing the buggy behavior in order to provide more
>> context and information in bug tickets
>>
>> Students with a little programming experience:
>> 1. Find a project and go through the readme to set it up on their
>> machine, possibly filling in missing steps where they occur
>> 2. Triage bugs by reproducing behavior and then looking through code to
>> start understanding what is happening
>>
>> Please let me know if those expectations sound about right. Looking
>> forward to it!
>>
>> -Melissa
>>
>>
>>
>>
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