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

Wed Feb 5 05:08:00 UTC 2014

Yes, I will be running the event on Saturday.

I think the schedule model you posed is what we had settled on, with a
minor modification.  After the Career Panel, we were planning on having a
30 minute talk-back with all the mentors who, for the most part, all have
real-world work experience so that we can help answer any other questions
the students might have.

The Mentor-Event breakdown will be as follows:

Laptop Setup - *Matt,* Kate - We will help get all machine variations
setup, all mentors will be on hand to help  on a one-on-one basis.
Open Source Tools - *Chris LaRose *- With other mentors offering one-on-one
help.
Practicing Git Activity - *Chris van Horne*
Career Panel - *Shane* - I will introduce this event and facilitate it.
Mentor Talk Back - *Roey* - Roey will lead the discussion but all mentors
will be involved.
Workshop - I am asking that all Mentors bring a project or an idea with
them that they will present and responsible for engaging with the students
involved in it during the workshop period.

I will make sure to keep everything on track and introduce each event,
yes.  I will be emailing all of the mentors tonight.

Thanks,

Shane

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Kate Maroney
>>>>>>> CSc 245 Section Leader
>>>>>>> Co-President, WiCS
>>>>>>> Microsoft Intern Ambassador
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>>>> President, UA Video Game Developers Club
>>>> President, UA Asian Music Club
>>>> Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Arizona
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