[Ccsf-campus-staff] Mozilla at our CCSF event

[Jennie Rose Halperin]

Hi Shauna, Tyler, et al,

Thanks so much for the introduction! Adding in Mike Hoye and Larissa from Mozilla.

So we see it working in a few possible ways (here are a few):

-- We can put more advanced students on mentored bugs and have mentors in the room for them. Any level of Javascript is something that we can, in particular, easily accommodate. 
-- We can also find other kinds of projects (documentation, etc.) for other students who may not feel as comfortable picking up bugs.
-- We can use the One and Done Portal from QA as a way to introduce various tasks that people can do at Mozilla.

We have a lot of Mozillians in SF, so have a good deal of flexibility in that respect. In our mind, the most important is to introduce people how to contribute to open source (and Mozilla in particular,) and provide them the help that they need as well as help them learn to mentor bugs themselves. (for lack of a better phrase "train the trainer" type of situation.)

We want to teach people not only how to file bugs but also how to teach others in the future.

What kinds of tasks are your students most interested in? I can get in touch with mentors who are interested in those kinds of specific tasks.

If you want to have a short chat via IRC (jennierose) or skype (jennierosehalperin) let me know!

Best,

Jennie


Jennie Rose Halperin
Community Building Team | Mozilla | http://jennierosehalperin.me | @little_wow | Join us! http://mozilla.org/contribute

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shauna Gordon-McKeon" <shaunagm at gmail.com>
To: "Jennie Rose Halperin" <jhalperin at mozilla.com>, "Tyler B" <tylerbrothers1 at gmail.com>, ccsf-campus-staff at lists.openhatch.org
Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:32:37 PM
Subject: Mozilla at our CCSF event

Hi Jennie,

I want to introduce you to Tyler, who is the main local organizer for our
event at CCSF on Saturday September 13th.  There are a few additional
organizers and mentors on the CCSF staff list, who I've CC'd.

There are a few different ways for Mozillans (spelling?) to get involved.
 Of course, anyone who is interested is welcome to attend the event as a
mentor, to be on the career panel, as well as to present elements of the
curriculum.  We'd also spoken about doing more focused contributions to
Mozilla.  CCSF may be ideal for that, as it's the third time they've run an
event and so have a number of more "advanced" attendees who will not be
doing the morning tutorials and can thus contribute all day.
(Perhaps the advanced attendees can even serve as quasi-mentors to the
newer attendees who join in contributing several hours later.)

How would you like to proceed from here?

best
Shauna