[Ccsf-campus-staff] Interested in mentoring at CCSF Open Source Software Workshop
Veronica Ray
veronica.l.ray at gmail.com
Sat Mar 15 20:14:56 UTC 2014
Hey everyone,
I got started coding my freshman year of college when I took a basic web
development class. I came into open source when I moved to SF last year. My
friend Susan Tan (who is involved with OpenHatch) really encouraged me get
involved.
I made minor contributions to various projects until I found Refuge
Restrooms. It's a Ruby on Rails web application that seeks to provide safe
restroom access for transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming
individuals. I really care about it and am good friends with the project
leader. I have added an administrative backend, environment variables and a
contact form to the app. I'm currently working on integrating with the
Foursquare API.
On Twitter I was saying that I plan on contributing to the ClojureBridge
materials (curriculum, sample apps, documentation) while I learn
Clojure. ClojureBridge aims to increase diversity within the Clojure
community by offering free, beginner-friendly Clojure programming workshops
for women. I volunterred to TA their workshop in May for I figured I should
learn the language! For reference I'm an experienced Java and Scala
developer.
I have no dietary restrictions.
Looking forward to the workshop!
Veronica
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Katherine Moloney
<kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu>wrote:
> Hi Veronica,
>
> You are a rock star! Thank you!
>
> Can you tell us about how you first got started with computers, coding,
> etc? And how did you come to open source initially, and which open source
> projects are you most interested/involved in now? [I thought I saw a
> discussion of working on Clojure as a way of learning Clojure in your
> twitter feed @nerdonica]
>
> As for us:
>
> - I'm a student at City College, just starting to use these tools and
> considering digging into the communities & code of open source
> - Shauna <http://www.shaunagm.net/#about> is one of the main
> organizers of OpenHatch <http://openhatch.org/>
> - Geoff <http://ldpreload.com/>is the lead for our workshop
>
>
> The workshop will be at the Ocean campus of City College of San Francisco.
> Here's the map -- http://www.ccsf.edu/Info/Map/ -- upper right corner
> shows the Balboa Park BART station, bottom shows the workshop location
> (Multi-Use Building room 140). We'll be starting at 9am on Sat
> 3/22...starting with coffee, OJ and pastries. [By the way, do you have any
> dietary restrictions?]
>
> This is the second time we'll be doing this workshop (the first was on
> 6/29/2013).
> This was the schedule last time:
> http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/ccsf-campus-staff/2013-June/000047.html
> ...plus this is the standard Open Hatch curriculum:
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum
>
> The last time the workshop ran, the jump from the morning to the afternoon
> "contribution workshop" didn't work -- everyone kind of hung out and
> chatted with the presenters (6 of them, 40 of us). Many of the students
> attending the workshop:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/a/mail.ccsf.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlYlN3mu5OJbdFVsQnFyTHFQM2ZFUzZ4cTR0SXJuVEE&usp=drive_web#gid=0
>
>
> ...are still in their first programming classes, so we're trying to modify
> the workshop to suit.
>
> Here's the latest attempt to rough out the schedule for this iteration of
> the workshop:
>
> pre-workshop:
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/CCSF/Laptop_setup
> getting comfortable with the command line
> installing MS Visual Studio, if necessary (I don't
> know)
>
> workshop:
> + BREAKFAST
> + irc intro
> + discovering & figuring out an unfamiliar project (docs, bug trackers,
> mailing lists, etc)
> > https://openhatch.org/wiki/OSCTC/FindingProjects
> > maybe a walk thru of one of the Google Summer of Code project
> ideas:
>
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/list/public/google/gsoc2014
>
> > or OpenHatch, or any other project that one of the mentors is
> involved in
>
> + career panel:
> https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Career_Panel
> + LUNCH
> + git / GitHub intro/review
> + "contribution workshop"
> > maybe a recreation of the 'Teach Me Python Bugfixing'
> http://www.pyvideo.org/video/513/pyohio-2010--teach-me-python-bugfixing
> ( ** great video ** )
> -- pair programming style (one person volunteers to type,
> everyone in the room can call out suggestions, with skilled moderator
> guiding)
> > would like to talk about:
> -- getting latest build & all the necessary dependencies
> -- configure, make, etc
> > not sure what bug to build it around, but
>
> What are everyone's thoughts?
>
> Katherine
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Veronica Ray <veronica.l.ray at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Katherine,
>>
>> I'm interested in mentoring at CCSF Open Source Software Workshop.
>>
>> Best,
>> Veronica
>>
>> --
>> Veronica Ray
>> Software Engineer at Bizo
>> Duke University '13
>> (210) 416-9693
>>
>>
>
>
--
Veronica Ray
Software Engineer at Bizo
Duke University '13
(210) 416-9693
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