[Campus-princeton-staff] IMPORTANT: Mentoring information

[Lisha Ruan]

Hi mentors,

Again, thank you all so much for volunteering to mentor at the Princeton
open source workshop on Saturday! :)

This email has all the information about what you'll be expected to do as a
mentor.

Here's <https://openhatch.org/wiki/Princeton_schedule> the schedule for the
workshop. Students will arrive at 10 am; we're expecting about 30 students.
The room will be set up in round tables, and students will sit around the
tables with at least one mentor at each table. From 10 - 11 am, there will
be breakfast and laptop setup. Here's
<https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Laptop_setup>
what the students will be doing for laptop setup; if they have problems,
they'll ask you guys for help. From 11 - 12 pm, we'll have the
communications tools presentation, which I just sent an email about.

>From 12 - 1 pm, the students will be doing git mini projects. Here
<https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Practicing_Git/Students>
are the exercises they'll be doing. Since you all said that you're
comfortable with git, I'm assuming that you can each lead a group of
students during git mini projects. Your role would be to answer any
questions and troubleshoot problems. If you *don't* want to lead a group,
please let me know.

>From 1 - 1:45 pm, we'll have lunch. From 1:45 - 2:15 pm, we'll have a
"musical chairs" Q&A panel: students will split into small groups and
panelists will rotate among them, answering questions and having a
conversation. From 2:15 - 4:45 pm, we'll have the contributions workshop,
when students will choose an open source project to contribute to, work on
an introductory ticket, and hopefully submit a pull request.

*Please reply with your responses to these questions*:

1) *Are you willing to be on the Q&A panel?* (In-person mentors only)
Anyone who actively contributes to an open source project (or has done so
in the past) can be on the panel. Again, you'll be rotating around small
groups of students, answering questions and having a conversation.

2) *Is there a project that you're familiar with, that you can lead
students in contributing to during the contributions workshop?* Last year,
we had many students get stuck on the tickets they were working on and not
end up submitting a pull request. I think the contributions workshop will
be much more successful if the projects are ones that the mentors are
familiar with and can help students with. If you'll be leading students on
a project, it'd be great if you could *find some introductory tickets* for
students to work on.

If yes to question 2) *Is there anything students should set up before the
workshop to prepare for working on your project?* (e.g. installing
anything) We'll send out an email asking students to do this setup, but
prepare for some to not have it done.

Lastly -- again, it's really important that we have someone give the
communication tools presentation! Let me know if you can give it, it would
be *super appreciated*!! :)

If you have any questions that I haven't answered, please ask! Also, if you
have any ideas for the workshop, please tell me.

Best,
Lisha
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