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[Ccsf-campus-staff] next steps for the event in September

Shauna Gordon-McKeon shaunagm at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 00:03:10 UTC 2014 

Really quick answers:


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Katherine Moloney <kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Shauna,
>
> We'll try to get to the curriculum & website this weekend, so we can get
> that all set before you're away.  [Where are you off to?]  But also
> wondering if you'll be able to push changes (or if Asheesh or someone else
> can push changes) to the live site while you're away?
>

I am headed to Ireland and Estonia!  Super excited about it.

The way the publicity website works, whoever makes it should have push
access to it.  They can/should also add myself, Asheesh, and anyone else
who is helping organize in case someone needs to make a quick update to the
site.



> Things will really pick up once the Fall semester starts on 8/18.
>  Probably the main push of registration will be the end of August once
> everyone sorts into classes, which means we will have a percentage of
> attendees who are only 1 month into their very first programming class.
>
> *** Note to future organizers of the Open Source Comes To Campus at City
> College: while I like doing this workshop every semester, if you had to
> pick either Fall or Spring semester, Spring would be better since you have
> fewer students starting their very first programming class then. ***
>
> As for the advanced students, we did plan to have them working on an
> all-day contribution workshop.  I think we might formally ask them to take
> a break after lunch, and help/pair with the beginners for the first hour
> after lunch (to beef up the mentors when the beginners get started on their
> contributions).
>
> Finally, I've shared our organizing Google Drive folder:
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/a/mail.ccsf.edu/folderview?id=0B1YlN3mu5OJbNGVQdjZHQU5FTFU&usp=sharing
>
> ...with Jennie Rose.
>

This all sounds great.  :)



>
> Regards,
>
> Katherine
>
> http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/ccsf-campus-staff
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I wanted to make sure you knew that I'll be on vacation from Aug 15th to
>> 31st.  You've already done this before, so I'm sure you'll get along fine
>> without me -- and I will be responding to emails, just delayed.  (If you
>> need anything quickly from me, put URGENT in the subject line.)  If you do
>> need in depth feedback from me for anything, I suggest we take care of it
>> next week.
>>
>> The next big step is to make the publicity website.  It's actually a
>> pretty small step, all things considered.  You can see instructions here:
>> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Logistics/Publicity_Website
>>
>> We should also start to nail down the curriculum, so we can start finding
>> mentors to lead each part.  You can see the default curriculum here:
>> http://example-osctc-site.github.io/curriculum/
>>
>> It sounds like you want to stick to the default curriculum for newcomers,
>> but also have a section for more experienced folks.  Did you want to do any
>> special activities with them, or basically extend the contributions
>> workshop through the day?
>>
>> As soon as I send this email, I'm going to do an email intro with the
>> Mozilla folks, so keep an eye out for that.
>>
>> best
>> Shauna
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Great!  Tyler and Maribel, I've added you to the staff list, so you
>>> shouldn't need to be CC'd anymore.  Looking forward to working with you!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2) Is everything set with the room?  (I'm assuming you've got the same
>>>> room as last time.)
>>>>
>>>>         Booked the same room.  Call tonight to discuss WiFi issues,
>>>> getting funding for food & OpenHatch honorarium (what's your current rate
>>>> now?  last we spoke it was $250-500, and we've managed to get $500 each
>>>> time).
>>>>
>>>
>>> I believe our honorarium remains $500.  Thanks!  :)
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 3) Mozilla is interested in having mentors at your event and possibly
>>>> forming an ongoing relationship with folks.  Are you all interested?  If
>>>> so, I'll do some email introductions.
>>>>
>>>>         Yes, definitely interested.  Who would this be?
>>>>
>>>>         Currently in contact with Larissa Shapiro <
>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/larissashapiro > since I'm organizing open
>>>> source meetups for
>>>>         Women Who Code <
>>>> http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-SF/events/195850392/ > around the
>>>> next round of the
>>>>         GNOME Outreach Program for Women < http://gnome.org/opw >.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Jennie Rose Halperin is coordinating on Mozilla's end, but I'm not sure
>>> yet which specific Mozillans will end up at your event.  I'll do an email
>>> intro later today.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 4) Did we want to make any significant curriculum changes?
>>>>
>>>>         We'll talk about that tonight.  Thinking about splitting the
>>>> room in half, beginner being lead through the curriculum in the back,
>>>>         more experienced in the back broken out into round tables based
>>>> on what they're working on doing basically an all day contribution
>>>> workshop.
>>>>         We'd all join together for the panel & lunch, and the more
>>>> experienced would be encouraged to help the beginners during the afternoon
>>>> section of the contribution workshop.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This sounds great.  If there's any advanced curricula you want to add
>>> for the more experienced, we can help you figure that out, but folks might
>>> prefer to just contribute all day.  :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> More soon,
>>>>
>>>> Katherine
>>>>
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