[Campus-princeton-staff] NYC-area OpenHatch events

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Jennie Rose Halperin <jhalperin at mozilla.com>
wrote:

> hey all!
>
> Super psyched to make this connection! I can't wait to see what you all
> cook up!
>
> Here's the project plan on our side...
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Contribute/Open_Hatch_Mozilla_Project
> I would generally love to have 3 weeks lead time so I have enough time to
> look for mentors and projects as well as get the budget request in.
>

Totally sensible.  The current plan is for the Stony Brook event to run Sun
October 19th and the Princeton event to run Sun November 16th, though
neither has a room booked, which is OpenHatch's internal metric for "okay,
this event is going to happen!".  Once the rooms are booked, let's start
looking for mentors.  :)




>
> We can provide some funding for food, mentors either remote or in person,
> a career panel, and a tour of our offices if you feel like coming out to
> see them!
>
> I also went ahead and asked the NYPL's Digital sector if they had time or
> energy to work on this with you because they are doing some wonderful and
> pretty funky stuff with open source projects, particularly in the Cultural
> Heritage sector.
>

Please feel free to CC us all in if they're interested.  I think the NYPL
would be a great org to see represented at these events.

- Shauna



>
> Best,
>
> Jennie
>
> Jennie Rose Halperin
> Community Building Team | Mozilla | http://jennierosehalperin.me |
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hanne Paine" <paine.hanne at gmail.com>
> To: "Shauna Gordon-McKeon" <shaunagm at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Jennie Rose Halperin" <jhalperin at mozilla.com>, "Katherine Ye" <
> kye at princeton.edu>, "Lisha Ruan" <lruan at princeton.edu>, "Diana Liao" <
> dmliao at princeton.edu>, "campus-princeton-staff" <
> campus-princeton-staff at lists.openhatch.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 8, 2014 4:37:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Mozilla at NYC-area OpenHatch events
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> It's great to meet you all! I'm so looking forward to hearing more about
> what you've done in the past and and figuring out how we can make our
> events this semester even better.
>
> Katherine -- I'm strongly considering applying to Hacker School for the
> summer, and would love to hear more about your experience some time.
>
> Anyway - Unhackathon is coming up in less than two weeks now (!!) and our
> applications are still open. We're especially hoping to get the word out to
> female students <http://unhackathon.org> and mentors
> <http://unhackathon.org/mentors>, since our event is focusing on
> inclusiveness. If you know anyone who might be interested in attending or
> mentoring, it would be so great if you could pass that info on.
>
> Have a great week - thanks so much for introducing us, Shauna.
>
> Cheers,
> Hanne
>
>
>
>
> On 8 September 2014 16:26, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > Before I begin, I think some introductions are in order:
> >
> > Jennie works at Mozilla and has been coordinating our efforts to bring
> > Mozilla to our Open Source Comes to Campus events.  I met her at AdaCamp
> > <https://adainitiative.org/what-we-do/events/>, which I highly recommend
> > to all of you.
> >
> > Hanne is a student at SUNY Stony Brook who helped organize an Open Source
> > Comes to Campus event at her school last spring, and is organizing
> another
> > one on Sunday, October 19th.  Fun trivia: she's also organizing this
> > Unhackathon <http://www.unhackathon.org/>.
> >
> > Katherine, Lisha and Diana organized our Open Source Comes to Campus
> event
> > at Princeton University last fall, and our planning to run another event,
> > probably in November.  They were the very first campus to run an event
> > without an OpenHatch person in attendance, and proved that it was totally
> > doable.
> >
> > (Katherine also went to Hacker School <https://www.hackerschool.com/>,
> > which I have not been to but hear great things about from
> > Sumana Harihareswara - who mentored at both the Princeton and Stony Brook
> > events and met Jennie at Adacamp.)
> >
> > I'm emailing you all rather than separately because I want Hanne,
> > Katherine, Lisha and Diana to know about each other, as NYC-area students
> > who are also open source community organizing superstars.  And also
> because
> > Jennie will need to have the same conversations with each of you: namely,
> > how would you like to incorporate Mozilla into your events?
> >
> > Mozilla has NYC offices so we should be able to get several mentors
> > involved.  I'm familiar with the Mozilla Science Lab, which runs out of
> NYC
> > and is headed up by the inimitable Kay Thaney, who I'm hoping to convince
> > to attend one or both events.  Jennie I think has some suggestions as
> well.
> >
> > We can also talk about building ongoing relationships.  How can we help
> > interested students (including perhaps yourselves!) become ongoing
> > contributors to Mozilla?
> >
> > Looking forward to figuring this all out with you.
> >
> > ~ Shauna
> >
>
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