[Campus-princeton-staff] [PLEASE READ] introductions for mentors & organizers at Princeton

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Hi everyone,

Thank you for volunteering for the Open Source Comes to Campus event on
Saturday, November 22nd at Princeton!  I wanted to send out a quick email
to introduce you all to each other and open up a space for you to talk and
ask questions about the event.  I’ve also added you all to our mailing
list, campus-princeton-staff at lists.openhatch.org
<campus-iub-staff at lists.openhatch.org>, where we’ll be discussing things,
coordinating, etc going forward.  You should have gotten a notification -
if you didn’t, check your spam folder. The list will be a bit busy for the
next couple of weeks, as we plan - feel free to ignore anything that
doesn't say [PLEASE READ] in the subject, and you'll be just fine.

We’ve got a bunch of great people involved in this event. It's being
organized by Open Source at Princeton <http://opensourceatprinceton.com/>,
a great group which includes Katherine Ye, Lisha Ruan, Diana Liao, Valerie
Morin, and Catherine Wu, all of whom are helping to run the event and are
on the mailing list. If you have any questions, or needs, just email the
mailing list, and one of them or myself will respond.  They'll be mentoring
at the event as well.


And then of course we have our volunteer mentors - Peter, Allison, Alan and
Brian. Thank you so much for your help, and please feel free to introduce
yourself!  It's also worth noting that we're looking for a few more
mentors, so if you know anyone who you think would enjoy mentoring at the
event, please do invite them.


I have a few questions for each of you, students and volunteers, to help us
figure out who’s going to do what on the day of the event.  Here's a link
to some explanations of the different activities we'll be presenting
<https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum>. We
also offer completely optional trainings for these activities.  If you’re
interested, please go ahead and sign up here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CIM_sQzQPM2X3RFf52otZX8KMJsKfZibvTXtQycuoGs/viewform>
.

What we’re looking for are:

   -

   One person to present our communications tools lecture.
   -

   At least five people who feel comfortable enough with git to lead a
   small group of students through our git activity.
   -

   At least three people who’ve had paid experience in open source (jobs,
   internships, fellowships) who are willing to talk about that for our career
   panel.


Please let me know if you’d like to do any of those things!

I’d also like everyone to let me know what they’d prefer to do for the
contributions workshop.  There are three options:

   -

   Help students contribute to a specific project, either one you’re a
   maintainer/contributor for, or one we can help you get to know.
   -

   Help students learn a specific type of task, either: improving project
   accessibility
   <http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/newcomer-tasks/accessibility/#/>,
   improving project setup instructions
   <http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/lessons/newcomer-tasks/setup/#/>,
   cleaning issue trackers
   <https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Newcomer_Tasks/Issue_Tracker_Cleaning>,
   translating software <https://openhatch.org/wiki/Translate_software>.
   -

   Be a “floating mentor” who walks around the rooms and helps individuals
   as needed.


If folks could respond with their preferences by the end of the week that
would be fantastic.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

best,
Shauna
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