[Campus-princeton-staff] mentoring details?

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

I don't know the exact details - that's up for OSAP to decide - but I can
tell you the broader outlines of the event.  My apologies for the delay
here, I should have shared this information earlier.

The event will be structured with tutorials in the morning, a career panel
at mid-day, and a contributions workshop in the afternoon.  What does that
mean?  Well, when students arrive, they will do approximately these things:

- Get their laptops set up.
- Learn what open source is.
- Learn about open source communications tools.
- Learn to use git/github.

Laptop setup is self-guided, while the "What is open source?" and "Open
source communications tools" presentations *can* be self-guided, but we
usually look for mentors to present those.  They're very interactive, and
communications tools involves things like setting up IRC, etc.  If you're
interested in presenting either of those presentations, that would be
great.  Otherwise, you'd be a "floating" mentor, helping students as
needed.  The learn to use git/github activity, if possible, involves small
groups of students with a mentor leading them through the process of
editing a toy project website on github.  If you'd like to lead a small
group, that'd be great too.

The career panel is usually half an hour of talking about your experiences
in open source.  One thing that we've taken to doing, which gets pretty
rave reviews, is having "career musical chairs" where students again divide
into small groups and career panelists rotate between them, about 7-10
minutes each.  We've found that this encourages students to ask more
questions, as they can be shy in a larger group.

The contributions workshop is a change of pace.  Students work with mentors
to contribute to particular projects.  Mentors can do a few things here.
They can help students contribute to their own projects, they can help
students contribute to one of our recommended projects or learn one of our
"newcomer skills", or they can float and help people getting stuck.

There are links to all of the above here, with more explanations and the
actual activity material:
https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Training/Short_Explanations

Let me know if you have any questions, and again, my apologies for the
delay in getting these explanations to you.


On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Peter Wolanin <pwolanin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't gotten any details about the Saturday schedule, or exactly
> what I should be planning to do as a mentor for this event on the 22nd
> - was I supposed to get something already?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Peter
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