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

Fri Aug 8 23:30:35 UTC 2014

[CC-ing some web-related faculty at City College on this conversation]

Hi Jennie,

Is there a regular Mozilla-related hack night meetup in San Francisco?
 Sometimes it's nice to meet folks in person, if possible, in addition to
online.

Just to throw them out there, here are the Mozilla suggested projects for
the last rounds of Google Summer of Code & the GNOME Outreach Program for
Women internships:

    https://wiki.mozilla.org/Community:SummerOfCode14
    https://wiki.mozilla.org/GNOME_Outreach_Summer2014

Additionally, I would mention some details about the way City College of
San Francisco  is structured.  The related departments at CCSF are Computer
Science & Computer Networking:

Computer Science <http://www.ccsf.edu/Schedule/Fall/computer_science.shtml>
has a core curriculum of either Java or C++ in order for students to meet
transfer requirements for the UCs and CSUs.  Additionally, the department
has an excellent Unix/Linux curriculum, and a solid set of SQL classes in
the MySQL, Oracle and SQL Server flavors.  There are one-off classes for
perl, PHP, Ruby, iPhone.  The Java curriculum leads into a number of
Android classes.

Computer Networking
<http://www.ccsf.edu/Schedule/Fall/computer_networking_info_tech.shtml> is
an amalgamation of a few different tracks: the various Microsoft
certificate tracks (A+, N+), Cisco certificate tracks.  More relevant to
Mozilla, the "Internet & Web Technologies
<http://www.ccsf.edu/Schedule/Fall/computer_networking_info_tech.shtml#Internet_amp_Web_Technologies>"
core is HTML/CSS and eventually a few JavaScript classes.  An excellent
security track, including hacking & malware analysis classes.

I bring this up because

(1)  JavaScript isn't a core skill at City College.  At the past workshops,
6 people indicated JavaScript experience at the last one, and 11 at the one
before that.  I think we can help student prepare, and...

(2)  if we do some more focused outreach to the Computer Networking
students (as the student groups organizing this event are over in the CS
department), then we'll get more JavaScript experience in the attendee
pool.  In class recruiting will be our most effective tool, ideally by
students standing up & promoting the workshop, but also by faculty taking
the time to introduce the workshop & pass along the registration website
(which isn't ready yet): ccsf.openhatch.org

Plus we should get the CCSF Web Developers & Designers Club
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ccsf-wddc> to co-sponsor.  I'll be
sending a message over there to see if some students can join our
organizing efforts.

Finally, classes just start on Aug 18, so many students are just in their
first month of programming classes.  I like the idea of giving everyone a
heads up that they should be heading towards open source, but certainly
this potential wave of very green attendees is something to plan for.  The
registration questionnaire:

https://docs.google.com/a/mail.ccsf.edu/forms/d/1hE3G5b5xQEQjNkHqxNemJX1R9CLuv_lkZBZkbmKI3g8/viewform

...will ferret out the experience level we'll be dealing with, so we can
make plans.

Regards,

Katherine

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Tyler B <tylerbrothers1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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