[Campus-neiu-staff] hope everything went well!

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Oh, and one last thing - I don't think I ever received a reimbursement
request re: the small amount we were planning to cover.  Please re-send if
I've somehow missed it!

best
Shauna


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> Thank you for all the feedback.  I went through it again and tried to pull
> out things for us to work on this summer, during our "break" period (where
> we only run 1-3 events, rather than a dozen!).  If you're interested in
> helping us shape the curriculum, you can join our list:
> http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/osctc-planning
>
> I also had a couple of other follow up questions:
>
> - We've created a mailing list to help volunteers keep informed about
> upcoming OSCTC events.  It's very low traffic - averaging one email a
> month, announce only.  Would you mind if I added you?  (As far as I can
> tell, only Meg is on it.)  I've heard from a couple of other people in
> Chicago that they want to run events so there will definitely be more in
> your area, in addition to any we run together.  :)
>
> - By the end of the summer, we're hoping to start up a mentorship-type
> program for OSCTC alumni who are interested in continuing in open source
> but feel like they'd like some more structured guidance.  If there were
> specific students you thought seemed especially engaged and interested,
> please pass along their names to me.  We plan to invite all event attendees
> to participate in our mentorship program, but we like to reach out
> personally to those who seem most likely to want to be involved.
>
> Finally, if you want to run an event (a full workshop, a project night,
> etc) over the summer please let me know and I can help you arrange that.
>  I'll also be sending an email about planning events for the fall in June.
>
> best
> Shauna
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Carl Karsten <carl at nextdayvideo.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:40 PM, meg ford <meg387 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "I also think it would have been better if the event had been broken
>>> into two days. It was a lot of information for one day. "
>>>
>>> We've done two day events, and the primary issue is lack of consistency
>>> - some people will only show up one day, and then you have to catch people
>>> up, etc.  If you're strict about confirming, or if you have a few mentors
>>> dedicated to reviewing/catching people up, this can totally work.  Again,
>>> this is a change we're happy to help you make if you want to.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Idea:
>> Friday night: laptop setup - get git and whatever installed.  maybe a
>> text editor.   The boring stuff.
>> Now Saturday morning they are ready to jump into doing stuff.
>>
>> Also, anything that allows people to work alone should be removed.  get
>> people working together.
>>
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