[Campus-princeton-staff] mentoring details?

Wed Nov 19 20:17:17 UTC 2014

I can run a git section group. We have a well-defined Drupal mentoring
process that Peter can describe better than I can.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Do either of you or Chris want to present either "what is open source?" or
> "intro to open source communications tools?"  If no, then you don't need to
> do anything to prepare.
>
> With regard to the git section, it would be great if you could lead a
> small group.  Are you interested in doing so?  To prepare for that, I would
> look through the student guide and see if you have any questions about how
> the activity works.
>
> Are you interested in talking about open source careers?  If yes, you
> don't need to prepare anything specific, but it might be useful to think
> about how you'd describe what you do and the options that students have.
>
> For the contributions workshop, you'll want to come up with a plan for how
> to get students set up with the project.  Will you be willing to help
> students get an AMP stack set up on their computers, or should they come
> prepared with that?  Is there anything else they will need to contribute?
> Then, if you could identify some tasks for them to work on.  They don't
> need to be tasks that students can finish at the event - students are just
> learning, and the workshop is only a few hours long - but it should be
> something comprehensible to them, where they can make some progress.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Peter Wolanin <pwolanin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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