[Campus-princeton-staff] IMPORTANT: Mentoring information

[Peter Wolanin]

I had said I'd be willing to present a section on what is open source
- from the schedule it looks like that's missing and you'll only have
"Open Source Communication Tools"?

Also - only 2.5 hours for the workshop?

-Peter

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 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 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 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