[Ccsf-campus-staff] Interested in mentoring at CCSF Open Source Software Workshop
Katherine Moloney
kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu
Sun Mar 16 14:18:09 UTC 2014
Hello again everyone,
I want to introduce Maria Pacana to everyone else (Shauna, Geoff, and
Veronica):
Hi Katherine,
I just found out about the OSS workshop you're having at SF City College
and would love to help out / mentor. I haven't been an open source
contributor for very long, but I just finished an internship with Wikimedia
through the GNOME Outreach Program for Women, so I have a good
understanding of what it's like to be involved in open source for the first
time.
[I'll be sending a big thank you to Alaina Percival (Women Who Code SF) for
including our mentor recruitment efforts in her regular email newsletter on
Friday.]
...I've left the introductory threads below, so Maria can read about
everyone else.
Maria, I really enjoyed reading your blog posts --
mariapacana.tumblr.com-- about your contributions to
Parsoid <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid>, your developing attitude
toward using irc, and the host of other topics around your development as a
programmer.
A quick recap (for Maria) before I leave the 4 of you to work out who will
do which sections of the curriculum (please keep me & the
ccsf-campus-staff at lists.openhatch.org email CCed on your conversations):
- Here's the links I've found to the Open Hatch curriculum (Shauna can
correct me):
- https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum
-
https://github.com/openhatch/open-source-comes-to-campus/tree/master/curriculum
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWCH8nos97w
- Shauna, are there other videos online? While this one appears
to be under the ShaunaGM user, when I click 'Videos' it says
that this user
has no videos, no playlists, so not sure how this video is
connected to the
user -- and therefore how to find others like it
- Here's the survey responses from the students who've registered so
far:
https://docs.google.com/a/mail.ccsf.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlYlN3mu5OJbdFVsQnFyTHFQM2ZFUzZ4cTR0SXJuVEE&usp=drive_web#gid=0
- While there are some experienced programmers in the bunch, many of
the students registered are brand new to learning to code (some in the
middle of their first semester of classes)
- I don't think this is a bad thing -- we're advertising to reach
the widest possible audience, and to bring them on the path to
participating in & contributing to open source
- [ ** great video that communicates clearly, even to beginners
who don't have the Python chops to do this kind of work
yet **] PyOhio 2010
'Teach Me Python Bugfixing'
http://www.pyvideo.org/video/513/pyohio-2010--teach-me-python-bugfixing
- Many of the students have laptops running the Windows O/S --
approx. 1/3 of registered students
- Should we have those using Windows laptops make sure they
install Visual Studio beforehand?
- Still recruiting mentors, so there will be new volunteers
on-boarding with you, maybe as late as Thursday, since visiting Python
Project Night on Wed 3/19. If anyone knows anyone who would be interested
& available, please bring them in.
Finally, a big thank you to all of you -- I & all the other students are
really excited about this workshop & appreciative that you are giving your
Saturday to help our development. Wow. Thank you.
Regards,
Katherine
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Veronica Ray <veronica.l.ray at gmail.com>wrote:
> 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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