[Campus-princeton-staff] mentoring details?

[Peter Wolanin]

Ok, I actually got roughly that much originally:
http://paste.debian.net/hidden/dbc53708/

however, I'm not sure if e.g. Chris or I should be prepared to do
anything for the morning presentations?

Got learning git it sounded as though mentors might interact with
smaller groups to help them?

For people Chris and I would mentor in terms of Drupal contributions,
they'll want an AMP stack set up on their computer in addition to git,
e.g. DevDesktop is probably the easiest option:
https://www.acquia.com/downloads

Though you can possibly do it on Mac via OS-native packages, howbrew,
MAMP or on PC via XAMPP, or on linux via OS packages.

-Peter

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
<shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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