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

Kevin Morris kevr at nixcode.us
Sat Aug 9 19:18:13 UTC 2014


It looks amazing!

On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 03:06:09PM -0400, Shauna Gordon-McKeon wrote:
>    Isn't it lovely?  The main page was designed by the Davis Computer Science
>    Club, who ran an event with us last spring.
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>    On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Tyler B <[1]tylerbrothers1 at gmail.com>
>    wrote:
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>      Wow, yea that looks great. Thanks for the point out!
>      Sincerely,
>      Tyler Brothers
>      Phone: [2]925-998-9956
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>        [3]www.linkedin.com/in/tylerbrothers/
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>      On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
>      <[4]shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>        Hi folks,
>        To clarify, our newest template can be found here: 
>        [5]http://example-osctc-site.github.io/
>        It's really nice looking, and just as easy to customize as the
>        previous version.  It also contains an online curriculum section:
>        [6]http://example-osctc-site.github.io/curriculum/
>        This can be altered to fit whatever structure you decide on.  It also
>        doesn't have to be limited to OpenHatch-designed tutorials.  We can
>        put links to Mozilla's stuff, etc on here.
>        ~ Shauna
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>        On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Maribel Gordon
>        <[7]mgordon8 at mail.ccsf.edu> wrote:
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>          I can try to to make it at 6:30 pm, but I can't guarantee I'll be
>          back home by then. I have an event in the city that will go until
>          the late afternoon, so I might be delayed a bit. I can try to jump
>          on the call once I get home.
>          Maribel
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>          On Saturday, August 9, 2014, Katherine Moloney
>          <kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu> wrote:
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>            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.
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>            On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Tyler B <tylerbrothers1 at gmail.com>
>            wrote:
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>              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 [8]http://ccsf.openhatch.org/)
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>                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: [9]925-998-9956
> 
>                [10]www.linkedin.com/in/tylerbrothers/
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>              On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Katherine Moloney
>              <kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu> wrote:
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>                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:
>                    [11]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:
>                 [12]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
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>                On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Tyler B
>                <tylerbrothers1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>                  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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>          Maribel M. Gordon
>          [13]mgordon8 at mail.ccsf.edu
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>    4. mailto:shaunagm at gmail.com
>    5. http://example-osctc-site.github.io/
>    6. http://example-osctc-site.github.io/curriculum/
>    7. mailto:mgordon8 at mail.ccsf.edu
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>   12. http://www.bridgetroll.org/events/108/levels
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