[Campus-princeton-staff] IMPORTANT: Mentoring information

[Lisha Ruan]

Great, thanks Valerie!

*To the mentors:* I'm about to send to the students a list of projects that
they can contribute to during the workshop:
https://openhatch.org/wiki/Princeton_Workshop_Projects

If you want me to add a project to that page, let me know.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Valerie Morin <vmorin at princeton.edu> wrote:

> Yep, til 6
>
>
> On Nov 20, 2014, at 7:49 PM, Lisha Ruan <lruan at princeton.edu> wrote:
>
> I believe we have the room until 6. Valerie, can you confirm that?
>
> That's a good point, but I also think often students don't last through
> the whole contributions workshop if they get stuck and feel they're not
> making progress. If we can avoid that, they may want to keep working.
>
> It looks like about 1/2 of students are familiar with git/Github, but not
> many with IRC. I was thinking the students familiar with git/Github can
> start choosing, setting up, and maybe working on a project during the git
> mini projects portion. Not sure if there's any way to get around listening
> to the presentation for those who know the material already.
>
> Also, I don't think we should extend the workshop past 5 pm (not
> officially, though students can stay later). If we make the contributions
> portion longer, we should shorten something else.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We find that students don't last more than 2.5 hours - they've already
>> spent several hours learning new materials, and they need to take a break
>> by the end of the workshop.  There are often a few students who are so into
>> things that they'll keep going for hours, so when possible we do like to
>> keep the room book for after the event.  Lisha, Katherine, do you know if
>> we've got the room past 4?
>>
>> It looks like there are about 12 sign-ups (so about 6-8 attendees) who
>> already have experience with the things we'll be teaching in the morning
>> tutorials.  If you'd like to do the workshop for longer, we can see if
>> they'd be interested in starting early with your project.  (We've done this
>> a couple times and it generally works pretty well.)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Peter Wolanin <pwolanin at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
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