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

[Tyler B]

P.S.

I will be in Oregon from August 10th to August 15th. I will be backpacking
around and so unavailable totally for most of the trip.

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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