[Campus-princeton-staff] IMPORTANT: Mentoring information

[Christopher McCafferty]

Drupal Handout - in progress
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mQzK8cLsd4TQTvIQnqxy3Q2AN8CpkoDXR5wOcWtyG4w/edit?usp=sharing

Drupal Issues - we are selecting these today
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14ZyKPkNKNeFUGgYY2_Wu9Hxsbeg7h1z4JwZw9rmts6M/edit?usp=sharing

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
>



-- 
Chris McCafferty
(609) 759-1310
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