[Ccsf-campus-staff] how did the event go?

[Maria Pacana]

Hi Shauna!

The morning went well; people seemed engaged during the intro to IRC, and I
think they responded well to my
talk<https://github.com/mariapacana/openhatch/blob/master/opensource.md>about
finding / reaching out to OSS projects. Students seemed frustrated /
confused by the Git intro, which we pretty much did according to the
curriculum; a bunch of people got up and left after that. In the future, it
might help to give a conceptual, high-level explanation of Git (maybe
accompanied by a diagram on the whiteboard) so that students can have a
better mental picture of what all the incantations mean.

During the contribution workshop, one group worked with Veronica on a bug
from Refuge Restrooms, while other people studied Git / researched other
open source projects. I think that dividing people up into the two tracks
was a great idea; it might've been good to do it even earlier (like before
the Git workshop). I don't think anyone made any OSS contributions that
day, but I definitely spoke to a couple people who were carefully
researching projects on OpenHatch / GitHub and drafting emails to the
maintainers.

~ Maria


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon
<shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> When you get the chance, I'd love to hear how the event went on Saturday!
>  Did the logistics etc go smoothly?  Did you have enough mentors?  What
> were the best/worst parts of the day?  I'm especially interested in hearing
> about the curriculum changes you made and how they went over.
>
> best,
> Shauna
>
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