[Campus-uofa-staff] getting mentors for the event

Tue Feb 4 17:30:35 UTC 2014

Thanks for getting back to me.  The next thing we have to do, by the end of
the day, is to discuss the curriculum and make sure we have people willing
to run the various parts.

Shane, I presume you will be the one "running" the event - that is, making
sure each activity proceeds roughly on time, reminding people when it's
their turn to present, etc?

My suggested schedule:

10am-10:30am Laptop
Setup<https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Laptop_setup>,
Introductions (Need someone to lead introductions, low effort)
10:30-11:30am Open Source Tools
presentation<https://openhatch.org/wiki/OSCTC/Tools>(Need someone to
lead this, high effort)
11:30-12:30pm Practicing Git
activity<https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Practicing_Git>
(Need
someone to introduce the activity, low effort, and at least 3-4 people
willing to lead small groups)
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:00 Career Panel - It seems like all your mentors are students.  That
means we should either do a remote career panel, using google hangouts, or
turn it into more of a "talk about your experiences" panel.  Depending on
what you choose, we'll have different needs for mentors.
2:00-5:00 Contributions Workshop - Needs someone to introduce the activity
and run checkins at 3, 4 and a wrap-up at 5.  We need to pair mentors up
with projects - either their own, if there are any FOSS projects they'd
like to help students contribute to - or to OpenHatch.

So, Shane:

- Let me know what you think about the career panel, and whether you'd like
it to be via google hangout, or to do something less career-focused with
the mentors we have.
- Can you be the person to introduce activities such as Laptop Setup,
Introductions, Practicing Git, Career Panel, Contributions Workshop?  This
is low effort but requires you to be good at leading groups and keeping an
eye on the time.
- Can you present the Open Source Tools presentation?  If not, we need to
find someone who can.
- Can you email the above mentors and ask them to:
     - Confirm that they can lead a small group through the Practicing Git
activity.
     - Email me with any projects they contribute to/maintain that they'd
like to guide students towards contributing to.  Ask them to explicitly
state that there are no projects, if they have no projects.

best
Shauna

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Shane Gianelli <shanejgianelli at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Shauna,
>
> Sorry for the delay, this email thread appears to have been filtered.
>
> The mentors that we have currently are as follows:
>
> *MENTORS:*
>
> *Chris Van Horne*
>
> cwvh at email.arizona.edu
>
> Chris is a senior who, as an undergrad, taught the Computer Science
> Departments Web Programming class, an upper-division elective.  He has been
> programming for more than 10 years, is a member of the Tucson Functional
> Programmers Meetup and contributes heavily to that community in helping
> refine people's code and teaching newcomers the basics of the field.  He
> has made contributions to a handful of open source projects, primarily
> Python and Haskell -based projects. Chris has been programming for 10-12
> years.
>
> *Chris LaRose*
>
> cjlarose at email.arizona.edu
>
> Chris is a senior, graduating in 3 years, in Computer Science, has 4-5
> years of programming experience and a frequent and involved member of our
> school's ACM chapter.  He has given regular talks on such things as
> algorithms, programming languages, open source frameworks and libraries,
> and how to get involved in the open source community.  His primary emphasis
> in software development is front-end website development and has written
> about his experiences with frameworks like Facebook's React.js library, and
> recently released an open source project in Python that assists in
> interfacing with various Bitcoin exchange markets.  He has released a basic
> C-- compiler on GitHub.
>
> *Roey Chasman*
>
> rchasman at email.arizona.edu
>
> Roey is a senior in the Computer Science department who, like everyone on
> this list is self taught.  He has been programming since before he came to
> college.  He has been heavily involved in the Bitcoin community since its
> infancy, and is currently in the progress, with myself, Kate, Matt, and
> Chris L., of developing a website utilizing the technology in which we will
> be releasing components as open source.  His experiences range from
> "standard" to "unique" in that he has heavily utilized Clojure in
> developing front-end software for the open source BIO5 iPlant
> Collaborative.  Roey has also given presentations to ACM as well that
> helped introduce a group of Freshman to git and version control software
> and how it relates to open source.
>
> *Shane Gianelli* (Myself)
>
> shanejgianelli at email.arizona.edu
>
> I am a senior in the Computer Science Department, also graduating in 3
> years, and I am the President of the ACM club here.  I am self-taught with
> 6-7 years of experience, 4 of those professionally, have released a handful
> of open source projects that relate to iOS and Android development as a
> result of the tools I have made to assist in my own development processes.
> I currently work with a company that has a great amount of interest in open
> source as a business component and will be releasing some of the software
> that I have developed for them under the MIT license. I have released most
> of my class projects, including a network router, basic operating system,
> and 3D game as MIT licensed projects on GitHub.
>
>
>
> *Matt Gautreau*
> mgaut72 at email.arizona.edu
>
> Matt is the Vice President of the ACM club with myself and a Junior in the
> Computer Science Department.  Matt has a significant interest in
> mathematics and computational algorithms that has driven him toward working
> on image analysis and recognition, as well as a vested interest in function
> programming, resulting in his involvement in the Tucson Functional
> Programmers Meetup.  Matt has given presentations on Linux setup and
> configurations, vim tutorials, and other open platforms as a means of
> adopting and utilizing open technologies.
>
> *ASSISTING MENTORS:*
>
> *Kate Maroney*
>
> katemaroney at email.arizona.edu
>
> Kate is a member of the Computer Science Department, graduating in 3
> years, and is the President of the Women in Computer Science.  She has
> experience leveraging open source technologies as both a learning and
> teaching tool.  Though she has not contributed much on her yet, she has
> expressed interest in helping out as an experienced programmer in mentoring
> the students about programming languages, team organization, and version
> control with git.
>
>
>
> *Zuoming Shi*
> zuomingshi at email.arizona.edu
>
> Zuoming is a Junior in the Computer Science Department, is the President
> of the U of A Game Developer's Club, and has been programming since he came
> to college.  By virtue of his involvement in the Game Developer's Club, he
> has been exposed to, and has exposed, open source game building
> technologies.  He has run "Game Jam" events where he and others in the club
> will develop games and, in some cases, make them open source at the end of
> the event.  He focuses on utilization of primarily open source technologies
> like libgdx, scipy, and scikit-learn.  He also makes the code to any
> projects available to anyone wishing to learn more themselves.
>
>
> Let me know if you need anything else.
>
> Shane
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm okay with proceeding with option #1, but that's contingent on:
>>
>> - Shane responding to me by the end of today (Monday) with a list of
>> mentors gathered for the event, their contact information, and their skills
>> and experiences (especially relating to their familiarity with Github, and
>> what open source projects they're associated with).
>> - Being able to, by the end of the day tomorrow, come up with a working
>> plan for who is presenting what.
>>
>> It seems like the above should be totally doable, but it needs to happen
>> for OpenHatch to participate, and it needs to happen in this timeframe.
>>
>> best
>> Shauna
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Zuoming Shi <zuomingshi at email.arizona.edu
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Since we already did a ton of publicity with the current date, I would
>>> prefer option 1.
>>>
>>> Shane, tell me if you need me to volunteer as a mentor. I prefer to be a
>>> normal attendee, but id needed I can be a mentor.
>>>
>>> Z
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've been asking since last Wednesday for Shane to get in touch with
>>>> me, and still have not had any contact.  Here's why I'm worried:
>>>>
>>>> I haven't had any discussions with anyone about the precise
>>>> curriculum/schedule you'll be running.  I haven't had any discussions about
>>>> who the mentors are or what skills/experiences they have.  I haven't had
>>>> any discussions about an ideal mentor:student ratio.
>>>>
>>>> Most importantly, I haven't had any discussions about how to train the
>>>> staff to present the curriculum.  While it's nice to think we've documented
>>>> everything well enough that no one has any questions about how to set up
>>>> the Open Source Tools lecture or the Practicing Git activity, I don't think
>>>> our documentation is that good.  At our last event, we did several hours of
>>>> google hangout training with staff members to get them up to speed so they
>>>> could lead activities.  And our new Contributions Workshop structure
>>>> actually *requires* that staff get in touch with us, so we can match
>>>> them to an open source project that fits their needs.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately I have an ongoing medical issue with my family where I
>>>> cannot predict my availability over the next week.  So I am unlikely to be
>>>> able to do last-minute trainings with mentors.  This means that we have two
>>>> options:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Scaled-back event on Saturday:
>>>>
>>>> I need Shane to get in touch with me ASAP with the list of mentors and
>>>> their skillsets so we can decide what parts of the curriculum are doable.
>>>>  There are substitutions we can make.  For instance, Practicing Git has
>>>> been really successful but requires a large number of mentors who are at
>>>> least somewhat familiar with Github.  We could substitute in our
>>>> self-guided Git training mission.  I think students would get a lot less
>>>> out of it, but it's an option.
>>>>
>>>> We can either skip the Contributions Workshop or limit it to
>>>> contributing to OpenHatch itself where the involvement of remote mentors
>>>> (myself and Asheesh, potentially others) would make up for the lack of
>>>> familiarity among local mentors.  (If the local mentors Shane has found
>>>> happen to be maintainers of open source projects, of course they could help
>>>> students contribute to their projects as well.)  Again, this is not ideal,
>>>> but it's a reasonable option.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Postpone until later in the semester
>>>>
>>>> We're open to postponing the event, so that we can be better prepared
>>>> for it.  This is really your call, as the negatives to doing this - having
>>>> to re-book the space, explain to sponsors, communicate with attendees, etc
>>>> - would fall on your shoulders.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know what you think, as to the above two options.  It's
>>>> difficult for me to say which is better without having any idea of the # of
>>>> mentors you've found, their skills and experiences, and their willingness
>>>> to present parts of the curriculum.  My apologies for the pessimism of this
>>>> email, but having run a dozen of these events myself, I know communicating
>>>> with mentors and finding presenters/guides for the curriculum is a central
>>>> task which can strongly and negatively impact events when not done with
>>>> enough lead time.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Shauna
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That's great to hear!  The complete lack of contact/information was
>>>>> getting me worried.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Kate Maroney <
>>>>> katemaroney at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Shane's been taking care of this, he has mentors lined up. I'll have
>>>>>> him email you specifically with details, but it has been taken care of.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>>>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Hi folks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No one's been in touch with me about mentors or the curriculum for
>>>>>>> next weekend's event.  It's very important that someone take this role on!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We need to:
>>>>>>> A) Identify 2-5 more mentors for the event.
>>>>>>> B) Figure out who knows what, so we can assign different people to
>>>>>>> lead different parts of the event.
>>>>>>> C) Make sure that mentors feel comfortable/trained to do what
>>>>>>> they've been assigned.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We can help with A from afar, but using your social networks may be
>>>>>>> more effective in finding open source enthusiasts on campus.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As far as B goes: all potential mentors (including you Kate, Shane,
>>>>>>> Zuoming!) should fill out this form:
>>>>>>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VD-eru91zNZLYrd-RCEyJmJR9s2HK4ORMvb-62XRspk/edit
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Once we know who'll be mentoring, I can help with C.  I'm happy to
>>>>>>> provide explanations/training/resources to as many people as need it, but
>>>>>>> we need to identify the need first.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> With only a week left, it's important we get to this quickly.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> best
>>>>>>> Shauna
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Kate Maroney
>>>>>> CSc 245 Section Leader
>>>>>> Co-President, WiCS
>>>>>> Microsoft Intern Ambassador
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>>> Zuoming Shi
>>> President, UA Video Game Developers Club
>>> President, UA Asian Music Club
>>> Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Arizona
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