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

Katherine Moloney kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu
Sat Aug 9 19:52:36 UTC 2014 

[Dropping off the CCSF faculty so we don't clutter their inboxes, but will
pick up with them once school is back in session.]

We can definitely open & push the registration during the first two weeks
of school starting Aug 18th, so we should have a good set of registrant
responses by Aug 28th -- two weeks out from the event.

As part of the registration, we can ask people what they're interested in,
offering them some of the open source projects that have active communities
here in the Bay Area (Mozilla, OpenStack, Railsbridge, Code for America,
etc).  I just went to SF Bay OpenStack paired meetups:

    http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/150932532/  (Beginner Track)
    http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/150932562/  (Hackathon)

...and it made a *huge* difference to help weed through the overwhelming
amount of documentation.

Katherine


On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We should make sure to open up registration and do publicity early, to
> give people time to alter structure and tasks to suit their needs.  We
> usually aim to do this three weeks out from the event.
>
> For the record, if any Mozilla folks want to be put on the
> ccsf-campus-staff mailing list, I'd be happy to do that.  Lowers the chance
> of someone getting accidentally dropped off CC.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Katherine Moloney <kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, definitely will be sharing the attendee survey responses (probably
>> less last names, emails & dietary restrictions) with all the mentors.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Jennie Rose Halperin <
>> jhalperin at mozilla.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Great.  Thanks!
>>>
>>> AFAIK there's nothing regular, but someone may be able to correct me on
>>> that.  Every Monday there is a bug triage day (
>>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugdays/Bug-Triage). In addition, our
>>> community spaces are open, and we would be happy to set up a time for you
>>> to hang out, tour the office, meet people in person, etc. We could even
>>> happily organize ongoing hack nights for your school at one of our spaces.
>>> We're really happy to invite community in, so let me know if you would like
>>> that.
>>>
>>> There are a lot of Javascript bugs, but one of the good things about
>>> being such a large and distributed organization is that we have things
>>> written at many, many skill levels and in many, many languages, so really
>>> whatever kind of contribution area people want to learn about we probably
>>> have bugs to fix about it. For example, here are the bugs tagged "good
>>> first bug" in Java: hhttps://
>>> bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=10951235&short_desc=java&resolution=---&resolution=FIXED&resolution=INVALID&resolution=WONTFIX&resolution=DUPLICATE&resolution=WORKSFORME&resolution=INCOMPLETE&resolution=SUPPORT&resolution=EXPIRED&resolution=MOVED&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&query_format=advanced&status_whiteboard=good%20first%20bug&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr
>>>
>>> Here is more information about good first bugs and mentored bugs:
>>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Good_first_bug
>>> Here's the Oneand Done portal: https://oneanddone.mozilla.org/en-US/
>>>
>>> It would probably make the most sense for us to wait until after the
>>> survey is filled out, then we can match the kinds of mentors we have coming
>>> to the kinds of students we have coming. Would you be comfortable sharing
>>> out the results with me and we can match people from there?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Jennie
>>>
>>> Jennie Rose Halperin
>>> Community Building Team | Mozilla | http://jennierosehalperin.me |
>>> @little_wow | Join us! http://mozilla.org/contribute
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Katherine Moloney" <kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu>
>>> To: ccsf-campus-staff at lists.openhatch.org
>>> Cc: "Jennie Rose Halperin" <jhalperin at mozilla.com>, "Mike Hoye" <
>>> mhoye at mozilla.com>, "Larissa Shapiro" <lshapiro at mozilla.com>, "Craig A.
>>> Persiko" <craig.persiko at mail.ccsf.edu>, "Aaron Brick" <abrick at ccsf.edu>,
>>> "Claudia P. DaSilva" <claudia.dasilva at mail.ccsf.edu>
>>> Sent: Saturday, August 9, 2014 12:30:35 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Ccsf-campus-staff] Mozilla at our CCSF event
>>>
>>> [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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