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

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

My apologies for not being entirely clear.  I'm actually running no events
personally this fall - in order to scale up and run events everywhere we've
been invited, we've put all of our materials online and are helping our
local organizers run the events using them.

An event this fall would likely get many more mentors than last time, since
it would be on a weekend and not a weekday.  (We typically get 8 or 10
mentors per event -- Rutgers had in fact the fewest mentors we've ever run
with.)  We're also creating self-guided versions of all of our curriculum,
so even if we can't find a mentor to teach a section, students can still
learn it.  So while a local organizer does have to "run" the event in terms
of getting it started on time, announcing lunch, etc, they don't have to
present any material unless they want to.

Let me know if you're still interested in running an event.  Happy to talk
more about the details.

best
Shauna




On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Sri Raga Velagapudi <
sriraga.velagapudi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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