[Campus-princeton-staff] mentoring details?

[Peter Wolanin]

I'm not dying to do the presentations, but I could do "what is open
source?" if no one else is available - I did something related for a
conference: http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/free-software-and-you

Happy to help with the git section, if I'm are going to be there anyhow.

I could talk about careers - if nothing else about myself and others
leveraging it for career path changes.

It would be ideal if people working with us in the contribution
workshop installed DevDesktop in advance and create an account on
https://www.drupal.org .  Chris is too modest since he's done more of
the formal mentoring than me - but I think parts are already covered
by the earlier section including installing git and an IRC client.  Is
there a text/code editor you have them install?

We will come with some suggested tasks, and will help them set up the
AMP stack if they didn't do it in advance (but it's a bit of a time
suck).

-Peter

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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