[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
>
> 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
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> 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/
>
> 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:
> [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
>
> 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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> References
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> Visible links
> 1. mailto:tylerbrothers1 at gmail.com
> 2. file:///dev/tel:925-998-9956
> 3. View public profile
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerbrothers/
> 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
> 8. http://ccsf.openhatch.org/
> 9. file:///dev/tel:925-998-9956
> 10. View public profile
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerbrothers/
> 11. http://uiuc.openhatch.org/
> 12. http://www.bridgetroll.org/events/108/levels
> 13. mailto:mgordon8 at mail.ccsf.edu
> 14. mailto:ccsf-campus-staff at lists.openhatch.org
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