[Campus-neiu-staff] event schedule & day-of responsibilities

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Oh, also, someone should moderate the career panel.  All this requires is
doing a brief intro for panelists (just a sentence or two is fine) and
asking questions (we have a list for you to work off of) if students are
shy.


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> I added more times to the Day-of Responsibilities sheet:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fPVjs7X4IzWr9YWt4GKBt5aWnRhq3kpBKpTrUWpgTB4/edit
>
> A couple of things we need to figure out:
>
> -- Who is presenting the "intro to open source" / "tools" section?  You
> can see the materials here:
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/OSCTC/Tools  This can actually be broken up
> into "intro to open source" and "tools section", the latter of which can be
> turned into self-guided exercises if you give me enough notice, and the
> former of which really needs a person.  Zach, would you be willing to lead
> some/all of this?
>
> -- Who is intro-ing the git activity?  We have enough people (Jim, Zach,
> Meg, Sheila and Paul) to run the small groups, but someone needs to take 5
> minutes to introduce the activity and help arrange the room into groups.
>  Pretty much anyone can do this.
>
> -- Who is on the career panel?  Right now we just have Zach.  Are there
> additional local people who are willing to be on the panel?  If not, I'll
> find us some remote panelists, but we should figure that out quickly.
>
> - It seems like most of our mentors don't have projects they want to help
> people work on (right now the only person on my list is Paul with python-sphinx).
>  That's totally okay.  Paul can lead contributions to python-sphinx, and
> Asheesh can remotely lead contributions to #openhatch.  In this case,
> though, we probably want to focus on teaching attendees how to find their
> own projects (via the Finding a Project activity, which Meg will be
> intro-ing and demo-ing).  We'll also have our list of recommended projects
> for students to look through.  If you don't have a project you're leading,
> look through the finding a project activity (
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Finding_a_Project)
> and let me know if you have any questions/hesitations about being assigned
> to help students through the process of finding and contacting projects.
>
> An unnecessary thing it might be nice to figure out:
>
> -- Recently we've noticed that people get bored during laptop setup.  This
> is gratifying, because it means out laptop setup process is really well
> vetted at this point, but some people sail through and have extra time.  It
> might make sense to do some kind of ice-breaker/socializing activity during
> this time to help people relax and get to know each other.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Jeremy L. Grajales <
> jeremygrajales at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just confirmed that we have the room scheduled from 9 AM to 5 PM.
>> So we have an hour before the event (at 10 AM) to get everything set up.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Jeremy L. Grajales <
>> jeremygrajales at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Meg, not sure about when we'll have access to the room. Professor
>>> Iacobelli made those reservations I believe.
>>> On Apr 21, 2014 10:24 AM, "Shauna Gordon-McKeon" <shaunagm at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Jim mentioned that he might be willing to present the activity. Jim,
>>>>> are you willing to do it? I can help students with this also. I agree that
>>>>> it would be helpful to have someone on #openhatch to walk us through things
>>>>> in case there is something no one is familiar with.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Asheesh will be available all day on #openhatch.  I will also be
>>>> around, but less available, as I'll be physically at an event at MIT.
>>>>  There may be additional people in the channel who can help as well.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Shauna, is this the page we should use for the first contributions
>>>>> section of the workshop: https://openhatch.org/wiki/First_Tasks
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that's the page.  Although that being said, I think it makes sense
>>>> for us to switch to using event-specific pages, so I've made one here:
>>>> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/NEIU/tasks
>>>>
>>>> Projects that won't have a person available at the event (either in
>>>> person or remotely) can go under "recommended projects".  Projects that
>>>> people will be available to help with can go under "curated tasks".  Other
>>>> resources can go under additional resources.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, is it OK to point students towards the MediaGoblin section on
>>>>> this page: https://openhatch.org/wiki/Additional_tasks
>>>>> if they need help choosing a first task?
>>>>>
>>>>> Meg
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>> Absolutely.  You can copy the MediaGoblin section to "recommended
>>>> projects" or, if someone familiar with the project (you?) will be around to
>>>> help, to the "curated tasks" section.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  This page gives details on what's involved in mentoring/presenting
>>>>>>> for each part:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/mentorguide.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If everyone could take a look through and see what they feel
>>>>>>> comfortable presenting/leading/floating/etc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> best
>>>>>>> Shauna
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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