[Campus-princeton-staff] IMPORTANT: Mentoring information

[Katherine Ye]

FYI we currently have 56 sign-ups. This means about 30 people will show up,
giving us about a 1:3 mentor:student ratio.

Katherine

2014-11-20 10:08 GMT-05:00 Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>:

> 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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