[Campus-princeton-staff] IMPORTANT: Mentoring information

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

If anyone would like to help students contribute to a project but doesn't
have one in mind, I'd love to partner with an in-person mentor to help
students contribute to my WelcomeBot project.  I've found it's a great
project for students because it's pretty small and self-contained, and very
easy to set up.  You can see more here:

https://github.com/shaunagm/WelcomeBot
https://github.com/shaunagm/WelcomeBot/labels/first%20task

The project is in Python, but anyone can help with this, since a) it's easy
to get started with and b) the main thing I need in a helper is someone to
notice when students are getting stuck, talking them through how to ask for
help, and just generally being around to advise.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Lisha Ruan <lruan at princeton.edu> wrote:

> 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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