[Campus-princeton-staff] mentoring details?

[Peter Wolanin]

Again, opening their drupal.org accounts in advance would be very
helpful - I can give them the "not a spammer" role, so they don't have
their initial posting throttled.

Also, watching about 10 minutes of this video from 12:20 would be great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqH9WZLOyg4&t=12m20s

All this for whatever subset of participants want to work on learning
contributing to Drupal for the workshop.

-Peter

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Peter Wolanin <pwolanin at gmail.com> wrote:
> an an alternative to setting up the AMP stack locally, students can
> register and *login* to simplytest.me
>
> 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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