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

[Katherine Moloney]

Can we talk a little earlier, like 7pm or 6:30pm?

And I was wrong earlier -- Kevin's email is not getting the
ccsf-campus-staff emails, there's bouncing back from his address for some
reason.


On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Tyler B <tylerbrothers1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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