[Ccsf-campus-staff] Meetup to discuss Website and curriculum

[Tyler B]

Saturday at 8pm?

I really like the level's idea as it allows people to meet people (smaller
groups), learn together, and get better advice from mentors. I do want to
be cautious about making sure no one feels "dumb" for being in the newbie
group though, so thats something to keep in mind.

Install fest and instructions online for those who cant attend the meeting
is a must. As we iron out exactly what we want to teach, we can setup
instructions online on how to get setup. Maybe we can coordinate with
mentors on this.

In addition to having the groups being based on familiarity with tools, I
would like to see an opening presentation that touches on what open source
is about and why it matters. The presentation could touch on different
faucets of open source as well - legal aspects, open source vs. closed
source, social impact, history of open source and why the tools are
important to making open source contribution easy. The presentation would
give something to everyone and serve as a nice framework for newbies, so
they dont feel so lost and "why?".

Did our previous schedule have any hiccups? (pasted here for convenience -
from http://ccsf.openhatch.org/)

9:00am-9:30am:Coffee, juice, pastries, and getting to know each other
> 9:30am-10:00am:irc session
> 10:00am-11:00am:Communication Tools session
> 11:00am-12:00pm:Career panel
> 12:00pm-1:00pm:Lunch
> 1:00pm-2:00pm:git/GitHub session
> 2:00pm-6:00pm:Contributions demo/workshop


I know it had a totally different structure then what were talking about
here, but were there any obvious issues with the how long speeches were or
anything?

Sincerely,

Tyler Brothers

Phone: 925-998-9956

   - www.linkedin.com/in/tylerbrothers/



On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Katherine Moloney <kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu>
wrote:

> Minus private details (phone numbers, etc) let's communicate using
> ccsf-campus-staff at lists.openhatch.org as we're all on it & to keep a
> record for CCSF students running this event in the future.
>
> Definitely need to finalize the curriculum/content/schedule.  Let's pick a
> time on Saturday afternoon maybe or later tonight (Fri) like 9pm, and do
> another Google Hangout.
>
> As for changing the theme/layout of the website, that's something to raise
> with Shauna & OpenHatch.   You can see that this is a standard template:
>
>     http://uiuc.openhatch.org/
>
> ...personally, I think our time is better spent innovating curriculum
> structure.
>
> For example, what about the idea of having the curriculum be a series of
> self paced exercises instead of presenter-led lectures?  In this case,
> students could just indicate when they need help or more information.  Then
> mentors could be divided up within the room, and help just go to the
> students when they indicate that they need help.
>
> We could have students self-select their experience level, with something
> similar to this:  http://www.bridgetroll.org/events/108/levels
>
>     + total new to open source, irc, version control
>     + some experience with version control
>     + some experience with version control & irc
>     + comfortable installing/using open source, setting up my own
> development environment
>     + have contributed to open source projects before
>
> ...in this case, we might have people sit in clusters around the room
> based on their experience levels, that way when the mentors explain
> something, they can be explaining to a cluster of students who might all
> need the same question answered.
>
> Additionally, students could work the introductory curriculum even before
> they show up to the workshop.  The last club meeting could be an
> installfest (git, establish a GitHub account, practice with irc, etc) and a
> work-through-the-basic-curriculum opportunity, so more students could dive
> right into grokking the project they're interested in.
>
> *** If there is any way that students can pick out projects ahead of time
> & try to do the development environment setup ahead of time, that would
> make a *big* difference, since we'll be all in the same room, taxing the
> same wi-fi ***
>
> So anyone available to do a Google Hangout tonight around 9pm?  Or
> tomorrow afternoon?
>
> Katherine
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Tyler B <tylerbrothers1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I have free time all day today and saturday to get some work organizing
>> this. If everyone was available, I thought we could meetup to discuss how
>> we are planning on tackling some questions.
>>
>> Specifically: Specifics on the website, specifics on any curriculum
>> changes and what we can do for advanced and novice students alike and a
>> shared calendar to organize the moving part.
>>
>> For the website - I would not mind tackling this. I saw how we did it
>> last year and loved the content and ease of use. Im thinking of looking
>> into if we can install Wordpress and then just use a simple one page theme
>> to add some extra niceness.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Tyler Brothers
>>
>>
>>    -
>>
>>
>
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