[Campus-princeton-staff] I'm interested in helping out at the Princeton event on 11/22

Wed Nov 12 02:56:02 UTC 2014

Chris signed up to mentor also and thanks to him reminding me, we both
just ran through an intro training session w/ Shauna.  So, keep him in
the loop too.

-Peter

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Katherine Ye <kye at princeton.edu> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Thanks for signing up. It did show up on the form, and I think Shauna is
> planning on emailing all the mentors, though I don't know when.
>
> We have ~4 mentors signed up now (including you). We're aiming for 8, so
> we'd appreciate your help!
>
> Katherine
>
> 2014-11-09 21:25 GMT-05:00 Peter Wolanin <pwolanin at gmail.com>:
>
>> I signed up on the mentor form a couple days ago - should I expect any
>> feedback or message?
>>
>> Still trying to recruit 1 or 2 more experienced Drupalists.  Where do
>> you stand as far as the number of mentors you need?
>>
>> -Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Lisha Ruan <lruan at princeton.edu> wrote:
>> > Hi Peter,
>> >
>> > Thanks for pointing out that it's not listed on those calendars. It
>> > looks
>> > like it's listed on the OpenHatch site now. I'll look into why it's not
>> > listed on the Princeton calendars.
>> >
>> > We're hoping to have at least 10 mentors for the event. We've reached
>> > out to
>> > a few companies who said they could provide mentors, but no one has
>> > definitively signed up yet, so we'd appreciate anyone who can come. For
>> > panelists, anyone who's had professional experience with open source
>> > would
>> > be awesome. But mainly we're just looking for any experienced engineers
>> > to
>> > be mentors (those with open source experience would be especially
>> > great), so
>> > that the students will have guidance during the workshop.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Lisha
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Peter Wolanin <pwolanin at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Lisha,
>> >>
>> >> Glad to hear that you have a definite place/time/plans already.
>> >>
>> >> I was a bit unsure, since it doesn't seem to be listed at
>> >> http://cal.tigerapps.org/evlist/gen/ or
>> >>
>> >> http://www.princeton.edu/events/?view=daily&category=all&from=2014-11-22
>> >> or http://opensourceatprinceton.github.io/calendar/ or
>> >> http://campus.openhatch.org/#upcoming
>> >>
>> >> A group of potential mentors from the Central NJ Drupal meetup already
>> >> made plans to mentor a code sprint/contribution day on the 22nd
>> >> outside Princeton, but possibly we can split off one or two people or
>> >> pull in people who are not going to the other event.
>> >>
>> >> Can you tell me roughly how many more mentors or panelists you are
>> >> looking to add or if there are panelist topics or industry areas you
>> >> are looking to fill in?
>> >>
>> >> -Peter
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Lisha Ruan <lruan at princeton.edu>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi Peter,
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks so much for volunteering!
>> >> >
>> >> > We're actually not within PWiCS anymore -- we're an independent club
>> >> > called
>> >> > Open Source at Princeton. Our website is here:
>> >> > http://opensourceatprinceton.github.io/ It's still a work in
>> >> > progress,
>> >> > though, since we only became a club this year. A sign-up website for
>> >> > the
>> >> > open source workshop will be up very soon.
>> >> >
>> >> > We can't move the date of the event because we've already booked a
>> >> > room
>> >> > (the
>> >> > Friend Center Convocation Room) and reached out to potential mentors
>> >> > with
>> >> > the current date. But it would be fantastic to have you there and
>> >> > anyone
>> >> > else involved with Drupal!
>> >> >
>> >> > Anyone who wants to be a mentor can sign up here:
>> >> > http://goo.gl/MlhAxK
>> >> >
>> >> > Let me know if you have any other questions.
>> >> >
>> >> > Best,
>> >> > Lisha
>> >> >
>> >> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
>> >> > <hello at openhatch.org>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hi Peter,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The event is being organized locally by Lisha Ruan (lruan) and
>> >> >> several
>> >> >> other students from Princeton WiCS.  They have a group called Open
>> >> >> Source at
>> >> >> Princeton although as far as I can tell they don't have a website.
>> >> >> They're
>> >> >> all part of this conversation via campus-princeton-staff, although
>> >> >> they're
>> >> >> on fall break right now so they may take a bit to chime in.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> We (OpenHatch) are very open to moving the date, but pushing it back
>> >> >> may
>> >> >> cause problems in terms of the semester schedule, so again, I'll let
>> >> >> Lisha,
>> >> >> Katherine, Diana and the other organizers decide on that.  My guess
>> >> >> is
>> >> >> that
>> >> >> running the event in December would be too late for them, but we'll
>> >> >> see.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> It sounds like at the very least there is the potential for lots of
>> >> >> collaboration with local Drupal users and contributors for future
>> >> >> events.
>> >> >> Let's see what we can do for this event as well.  :)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> best
>> >> >> Shauna
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Peter Wolanin <pwolanin at gmail.com>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Also, my wife is the administrator at Rockefeller College at
>> >> >>> Princeton
>> >> >>> where lruan is associated, and so that's a possible source for
>> >> >>> meeting
>> >> >>> space
>> >> >>> and other support.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> -Peter
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Peter Wolanin
>> >> >>> <pwolanin at gmail.com>
>> >> >>> wrote:
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> Hi Shauna,
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> there are several people locally who could both mentor and speak
>> >> >>>> in
>> >> >>>> regards to Drupal and/or some other PHP apps.
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> Also, in IRC I was pointed to  lruan and
>> >> >>>> http://princetonwics.wordpress.com/ as the nexus of campus
>> >> >>>> organizing.
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> I wasn't getting the sense Nov 22 was firm given the lack of
>> >> >>>> published
>> >> >>>> events on any calendar.
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> -Peter
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
>> >> >>>> <hello at openhatch.org> wrote:
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> Hi Peter,
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> Thanks for volunteering!  It'd be wonderful to have you at the
>> >> >>>>> event
>> >> >>>>> on
>> >> >>>>> the 22nd.  It's a pretty firm date, although I'll let our student
>> >> >>>>> organizers
>> >> >>>>> (CC'd via the campus-princeton-staff list) give the final word on
>> >> >>>>> whether or
>> >> >>>>> not it's moveable.  This is our second event at Princeton, and we
>> >> >>>>> hope to do
>> >> >>>>> more - we can let you know about those earlier so there's less
>> >> >>>>> likely to be
>> >> >>>>> conflicts.
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> A few questions about how you'd like to participate in the event:
>> >> >>>>> Are
>> >> >>>>> you interested in helping students at the event contribute to
>> >> >>>>> Drupal?  Also,
>> >> >>>>> given your speaking experience, would you like to present one of
>> >> >>>>> the
>> >> >>>>> morning
>> >> >>>>> tutorials?
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> best,
>> >> >>>>> Shauna
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Peter Wolanin
>> >> >>>>> <pwolanin at gmail.com>
>> >> >>>>> wrote:
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>> Also, there may be a conflict for some potential mentors, so 2
>> >> >>>>>> weeks
>> >> >>>>>> later might be better, and certainly more realistic for
>> >> >>>>>> planning.
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>> On Oct 29, 2014 11:22 PM, "Peter Wolanin" <pwolanin at gmail.com>
>> >> >>>>>> wrote:
>> >> >>>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>> We've been talking with paulproteus in IRC
>> >> >>>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>> I'm interested in helping out at the Princeton, NJ event on
>> >> >>>>>>> 11/22.
>> >> >>>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>> I'm one of the organizers of the Central NJ Drupal meetup, and
>> >> >>>>>>> in
>> >> >>>>>>> addition to contributing to Drupal core and contributed
>> >> >>>>>>> modules,
>> >> >>>>>>> speaking at
>> >> >>>>>>> events, and organizing events, I've made some small
>> >> >>>>>>> contributions
>> >> >>>>>>> to the
>> >> >>>>>>> Apache Solr project and others.  I'm also a Princeton alumnus
>> >> >>>>>>> and
>> >> >>>>>>> took CS
>> >> >>>>>>> courses as an undergrad (majored in Physics though).
>> >> >>>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>> -Peter Wolanin
>> >> >>>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>> https://www.drupal.org/user/49851
>> >> >>>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
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