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

[Tyler B]

Good Afternoon Jennie,

CCSF has students who are taking there first semester in programming
classes, as well as students who have been programming for years in and out
of school. This skill gap and how we will address it for this event is
something we are still discussing.

-- We do want more advanced students to be able to jump right in, so having
a mentor to get them quickly setup and running would be great. Javascript
is quickly becoming the most known language, and the advanced students
should have no problem using Javascript.
-- Having other kinds of projects would be a great idea! There are a ton of
faucets to open source, so maybe even some more advanced students would be
interested in seeing other ways to contribute.
-- Is the One and Done Portal the public bug tracking software Mozilla
uses? Public bug tracking software would be great for novice and beginners
alike to know about, whether they are ready to contribute or not.

At a certain time of the event, we are looking to ask advanced students to
help beginner students in some way. It could be as simple as letting a
novice programmer watch over their shoulder, or full on mentoring. We
certainly want everyone to leave this event with a strong knowledge of how
they can contribute, and how they can help others contribute.

We are still discussing the specifics of the curricula and will get back
with you in the next two weeks. In the prior years, the topics presented
were very basic: How to use IRC, git and github, ect. We are open to
suggestion if any mentor feels strongly about a specific, beginner-level
topic.

Sincerely,

Tyler Brothers

Phone: 925-998-9956

   - www.linkedin.com/in/tylerbrothers/



On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Jennie Rose Halperin <jhalperin at mozilla.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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