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Katherine Moloney kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu
Thu Mar 20 19:11:08 UTC 2014 

Hi everyone,

1) I've created a spreadsheet for suggestions to improve the next iteration
of this workshop:

        http://tinyurl.com/ImproveTake2

...please add to this at any point, but especially as the workshop is
happening.

I created a tinyurl because I'll be sharing it with attendees too.  This is
the 2nd iteration of OSCTC at CCSF, and ideally I'd like to see this become
annual or semesterly event, eventually building an active group of open
source contributors within our Linux Users Group.


2) Also created 'To Do - Day Of' document that anyone can add to, but
really for me to remember the little details:


https://docs.google.com/a/mail.ccsf.edu/document/d/18VJTEeKIlCSVoNnkNB0eAn_UMan9X2WfNf87CdHHPok/edit


3) Who is taking the remaining presentation slots:
    -- irc intro / practice session (again, this just needs to be paced
slowly and have some repetition to it for the newbies)
    -- how to find open source projects  (this could be a quick question
that all mentors answer)


4) I was wrong about the needed connections for the presenter laptops.  I
went and reviewed the room A/V yesterday, the projection has a VGA
connection as well as the regular mini jack audio.

For those presenting, does your laptop have a VGA port?  If not, let me
know what OS and what port it has (HDMI, etc).


5) Screencapture recording & audio: for those presenting the irc (?),
communication tools (Maria), and git/GitHub (Veronica) sessions, we'd like
to record these presentations.  Depending on your O/S, these are the
options we've used previously:

    for Macs:  http://acomp.stanford.edu/tutorials/screen_recordings
    for PCs or Linux:  http://obsproject.com

...the audio would just be captured with a USB headset mic.  Let me know if
you have trouble setting up OBS.  Art Wong who set it up for us last time
will be on site Saturday by 8:30am, and can help troubleshoot anyone's
installation.


6) Nametags or no nametags?  If nametags, nametags for just the mentors (in
order to distinguish them quickly for attendees), or nametags for everyone?


7) For anyone who can stay after breakdown at 6pm, we'll be heading to a
little Chinese restaurant down the street -- Emmy's
http://emmyschinese.net/-- mentor dinner on us.

Katherine


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Katherine Moloney
<kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu>wrote:

> I'm off to the SF Python hack nigh<http://www.meetup.com/sfpython/events/171271902/>t,
> to recruit more mentors.
>
> As for documenting, at minimum, one of the attendees has a tablet, and
> I'll just put him on the mission to take pictures periodically.  Possibly
> one of our members who is a decent photographer was trying to arrange his
> wife or someone else to watch their sons, so he could come for both the
> workshop & the picture-taking.
>
> In related vein, the connection into the projection is VGA, so:
>
>    - what kind of laptops do you -- Alex, Geoff, Jeremy, Maria, and
>    Veronica -- have?
>    - ...and do you have a connector that would display your screen to a
>    VGA input?
>
> ...I figure between this group and the students/faculty we'll come up with
> the necessary connections.
>
> And additional documentation -- with each person's permission -- we'd like
> to record the presentations, just desktop screencapture with USB audio
> input.  The technology we've used in the past has been:
>
>     for Macs:  http://acomp.stanford.edu/tutorials/screen_recordings
>     for PCs or Linux:  http://obsproject.com
>
> ...both Quicktime (Mac) and OBS recognize USB-connected headset mics.  And
> again, between this group & the student/faculty we'll come up with a USB
> headset mic.
>
> Working on a loan for a more complicated device for recording the 'career
> panel' -- just audio intended for an mp3 podcast format (just don't have
> the personal connections to do video capture [though I just realized that
> one of the SF Python organizers does this kind of recording for
> Twitter...I'll ask tonight, but given the short turnaround time, probably a
> non-starter]).  So likely just audio with a Zoom H2N.
>
> In summary:
>
>    - what kind of laptop will you be bringing (Mac, Linux)?
>    - do you have a VGA connector for that O/S?
>    - do you have a USB-headset mic?
>    - would you be okay with us screencapture-recording your presentationi?
>    - would you be okay with us audio recording the panel discussion?
>    - would you be okay with us video recording the panel discussion
>    (extremely unlikely possibility)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Katherine
>
> p.s. On-site breakfast is just going to be Starbucks coffee, OJ, and
> donuts/muffins.  Lunch is wraps, salad & hummus coming from this Syrian
> restaurant, Palmyra <http://palmyrasf.com/menu/>, with cookies and soda
> for snacks (there are water fountains in the building for refilling water
> bottles).  At the back of the presentation room is a kitchenette with sink
> & refrigerator, if you need it.
>
> p.p.s. The Multi-Use Building that we'll be in is at the bottom right of
> this map -- http://www.ccsf.edu/Info/Map/ -- we'll be in a large ground
> floor room on the south side of the building.  I have parking passes for
> those that need them, so you can park right next to the building.  The
> address for the college is 50 Phelan Ave, San Francisco, and we're right
> next to the Balboa BART station.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Katherine Moloney <
>> kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> *) None of the mentors beyond Geoff are on this ccsf-campus-staff list:
>>>
>>> veronica.l.ray at gmail.com maria.pacana at gmail.com alex.gaynor at gmail.com
>>> jlewi at google.com
>>>
>>>
>>> ...should I just directly add everyone (and then they can unsubscribe<http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/ccsf-campus-staff>after the event is over)?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, do go ahead and do that.
>>
>>
>>> Last I looked we had 57 students registered<https://docs.google.com/a/mail.ccsf.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlYlN3mu5OJbdFVsQnFyTHFQM2ZFUzZ4cTR0SXJuVEE&usp=drive_web#gid=0>.
>>> Assuming the same attendance rate as last time, that averages out to 45
>>> students, so I'm still attempting to recruit more mentors.  If you know
>>> anyone who would be interested & available, please invite them.
>>>
>>
>> I'll send out an email to a couple people who don't live in SF, but might
>> know a few additional people we've missed.
>>
>> Katherine - do you have any plans for documenting the event?  Mostly I
>> mean: is there anyone who's going to take pictures?
>>
>> best
>> Shauna
>>
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