[Ccsf-campus-staff] [OSCTC-CCSF] request for Google Hangout **this week** to discuss possibility of 7-Feb-2015 OSCTC at CCSF...

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

I can do any time before 5pm EST/2 pacific on Weds.  The other dates/times
don't work for me, unfortunately.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Katherine Moloney <kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Asheesh & Shauna,
>
> I think we can pull the logistics of a Feb 7th event in the next week, so
> would like to stay with this date.
>
> No affirmative commitment from OpenHatch yet, but would like to try to
> schedule a conference call / Google Hangout / or whatever with the two of
> you & with Tyler by the end of this week.  I've been reading the
> osctc-planning archives, and would love to have a quick chat with you about
> the future of OSCTC events at CCSF, plus what OpenHatch is able to support
> and your efforts to scale.
>
> I found:
>
>    - the discussion of potential workshop goals (A-E) and the related
>    discussion of value to both attendees and mentors in this thread useful:
>       -
>       http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/osctc-planning/2014-September/000133.html
>       - personally, I think:
>          - CCSF, as a community college where student tenure is commonly
>          2 years, is on the lower range of starting skills among the college student
>          audience
>          - we have lots of the underrepresented-in-FOSS populations, so
>          it's worth the effort
>          - we should try to repeat the workshop annually in Spring
>          semesters
>          - we should try to run the workshop as early in the semester as
>          possible, before homework builds up
>          - repeat attendance is a good thing, as folks develop more
>          skills, more comfort with open source, and move on to contributing (I see
>          that in myself)
>          -
>          - I'd love to talk about how satisfied mentors have been in the
>          past, given I'm not sure that their participation yielded any new
>          contributors to their FOSS project, and what kinds of contributions might
>          be good to pursue
>          -
>          - and, in addition, to considering formats that we've tried
>    already, we should consider the 'table/station' model too:
>       -
>       http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/osctc-planning/2014-October/000137.html
>       -
>       http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/osctc-planning/2014-October/000146.html
>       - we might encourage prior attendees to work at 'table' stations &
>       consider the preparation to be a mentor as an opportunity for in-depth
>       learning
>    - more long-range I intend to discuss with the CS department, the
>    possibility of a club/class -- the computer networking department is
>    starting a 'Security Practice' for network security/hacking competitions &
>    the engineering department has an Intro Lab that general participates in
>    robotics competitions
>       - I think the CS department could have an open source contribution
>       club/class, which would a great skill building class as well as a great
>       local resource building point
>          - I'd love to see the department lead & the class
>          curate/maintain a site that all students could use
>       - additionally there is a Web Dev Practicum (CS 195) this semester
>       that will be seeking projects for their teams to work on, we could give
>       them such an initial site creation project (or site conversion/expansion,
>       possibly of ccsf.openhatch.org similar to what is discussed here
>       http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/osctc-planning/2014-September/000132.html
>        )
>
>
> I'd be available to chat:
>
>    - Tue 4/13 6pm Pacific time
>    - Wed 4/14 10:30am - 4pm Pacific time (carving out some time in the
>    middle of my work day)
>    - Thu 4/15 10:30am - 4pm Pacific time (carving out some time in the
>    middle of my work day)
>
> When might the 3 of you be available?
>
> Katherine
>
> p.s. A shortlink to Agenda document --
> http://tinyurl.com/osctc-ccsf-mentors -- add whatever you like.
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <hello at openhatch.org
> > wrote:
>
>> To clarify, if you still want to do Feb 6th and think you can pull it off
>> in such a short time frame, we are happy to help with that.  We'd be
>> slightly more comfortable with a later event but we trust you if you think
>> you can do it.  :)
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>> hello at openhatch.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry to have missed this!  We've got a huge spam probably with
>>> hello at openhatch.org, and I occasionally miss things through that
>>> address.  We should fix that, but in the meantime, feel free to address me
>>> and/or Asheesh directly.
>>>
>>> Feb 6th is a bit soon at this point, but we'd love to do another CCSF
>>> event this semester.  Are you still interested in organizing an event?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Katherine Moloney <
>>> kmoloney at mail.ccsf.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> To: hello at openhatch.org
>>>> Subject: Let's bring Open Source Comes to Campus to my school
>>>>
>>>> Hi there! I'm so excited because I found the Open Source Comes to Campus page, and I want to run an event.
>>>>
>>>> My college is called: COLLEGE_NAME
>>>>
>>>> I found the website by: HOW_I_FOUND_THIS_SITE
>>>>
>>>> I'm excited about hosting the event because: SOMETHING_THAT_EXCITES_ME
>>>>
>>>> Let's work together and make an event happen!
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> MY_NAME
>>>>
>>>> Hi OpenHatch (Asheesh & Shauna),
>>>>
>>>> Katherine Moloney here again.
>>>>
>>>> Interested in potentially 2 OSCTC events in San Francisco in Feb 2015,
>>>> if these Saturdays are available on your calendar:
>>>>
>>>>    - for City College of San Francisco, looking at Sat, Feb 6th
>>>>    - for Women Who Code San Francisco, looking at Sat, Feb 21st
>>>>
>>>> ...would these dates work on the Open Hatch calendar?
>>>>
>>>> Katherine
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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