[Campus-princeton-staff] mentoring details?

[Peter Wolanin]

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On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Peter Wolanin <pwolanin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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