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

Sun Aug 10 00:21:31 UTC 2014

Let's do 6:30pm.

On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Tyler B <tylerbrothers1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ha! he has missed quite a bit then.
>
> Im ok with 6 or 6:30 pm even, the earlier the better.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Tyler Brothers
>
> Phone: 925-998-9956
>
>    - www.linkedin.com/in/tylerbrothers/
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 1:36 AM, Katherine Moloney <kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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