[Campus-rutgers-staff] bringing Open Source Comes to Campus back to Rutgers

[Sri Raga Velagapudi]

Yup. I should be able to get us sponsorship. Let me send out a few emails.

Shauna: I assume you will be running the sessions?
On Jul 15, 2014 3:26 AM, "Prachi Pendse" <prachirp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Shauna,
>
> Nice to hear from you again. Yes, I would be available to organize an
> event again, and can probably reserve space for two full days and hopefully
> have enough people to help out. I will need to check on the dates though to
> check that there won't be conflicts with other events.
>
> Sri, would Google sponsor it again?
>
> -Prachi
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Prachi and Sri,
>>
>> Last fall you helped us bring our introductory open source event, Open
>> Source Comes to Campus, to your Rutgers.  Since then we’ve done a lot of
>> work improving our curriculum and our event-planning process.  We’d love to
>> have another, even better Open Source Comes to Campus event at Rutgers!
>>
>> Some of the major changes we’ve made:
>>
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    We are no longer running events personally, though OpenHatch people
>>    still frequently attend events as mentors.  This means we need one or more
>>    local people to take on the role of lead organizer.  Could it be you?
>>    -
>>
>>    To aid in the above, we’ve put all of our curriculum and logistics
>>    information online.  For instance, this trello board
>>    <https://trello.com/b/UazH4j3s/osctc-template> lists the specific
>>    tasks that need to be done for a typical event (though your event may have
>>    different needs).
>>    -
>>
>>    We provide help in a number of other ways, as listed on the program
>>    website <http://campus.openhatch.org/>, you can find the details of
>>    what’s involved in running a full day event, and how we can support you.
>>    -
>>
>>    We’re creating self-guided versions of our entire curriculum.  This
>>    means, practically, that you’ll never have to worry about a mentor dropping
>>    out and having to teach something you’re not comfortable with yourself --
>>    you and the attendees of your event can always go through self-guided
>>    versions together.
>>
>>
>> There’s plenty of other changes that I think make our events even better!
>>  I’m happy to answer any questions you have about this.
>>
>> A practical note: this fall, we will be running events on three weekends:
>>  September 13th & 14th, October 18th & 19th, and November 15th & 16th.
>>  We understand that the process for reserving space varies from school to
>> school.  Please let us know if you’re generally interested in running an
>> event and we’ll figure out together which, if any, of those weekends will
>> work for you.
>>
>> Looking forward to hearing back from you!
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Shauna
>>
>>
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