[Campus-portland-staff] Room request information

[Asheesh Laroia]

Hi Bart (and all),

I thought I'd quickly summarize the event we're putting on, with your 
support, and see what space is available. Again, I work for a non-profit 
called OpenHatch that helps people get involved in open source.

The event is a one-day workshop in how to get involved in open source, 
with an emphasis on contributing to existing projects. We're aiming for 
20-30 students, and would be happy if non-Portland State students attend 
as well. General info site: http://campus.openhatch.org/

The first half of the day is more traditional teaching -- lecture and 
discussion, with some hands-on exercises to cement the learning. In that 
part, we cover:

* The basics of version control

* How open source projects communicate, including an overview of mailing 
lists, bug trackers, and IRC

* A very brief history of open source and free software, and a career 
panel where students get to hear from local companies who actively 
contribute to code projects that are free and open source

The second half the day is even more participatory -- the goal is to help 
every attendee contribute a patch to a real open source project so they 
get the feel that open source includes everyone, especially themslves.

You mentioned a room ("8601" is what I heard) that might be a good fit; 
can you check if it's available for Sat, March 9? If not, is there a 
different room that would work well for that number of people?

I imagine, in terms of seating layout, for the first half of the day we'll 
have people mostly paying attention to lectures, and for the second half 
people will likely work together ontheir laptops. (They'll have laptops 
either way, but in the second half, they're likely to want to spread out 
around the room.)

Let me know what works! If you can CC: this list on follow-up 
conversations, or forwardings-along to other CS-y people, that'd be very 
helpful.

http://pdx.openhatch.org/ is the event website for this event, but I aim 
to make some changes to it shortly to make it somewhat flashier. (-:

Thanks,

-- Asheesh.