[Events] Following up about Mozilla and OpenHatch outreach events

[Gregg Lind]

Hi Julie (also),

As a soon to be Mozilla person (hello!  I start Monday), I would be happy to
help with some of this in the upper midwest (Minneapolis and the
neighborhood).

GL

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>wrote:

> Hi Julie!
>
> Thanks for taking the time to talk with Jessica and me by email a few weeks
> ago. I wanted to send out some notes from our call to you and the public
> Events list, as we discussed on IRC.
>
> So here they are!
>
> (For context, Julie Deroche emailed us at hello at openhatch to see if she
> could collaborate with us, through her recruiting work at Mozilla, on open
> source outreach events like the one Jessica McKellar ran recently at MIT,
> http://openhatch.org/wiki/**Open_Source_Workshop<http://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Workshop>)
>
> You (Julie) explained to us that your outreach work at Mozilla is focused
> on the top-tier computing schools where many Mozilla employees seem to come
> from. Mozilla runs quite varied outreach events, generally targeted at
> upper-classmen, trying to find areas of interest particular to the students
> at that institution.
>
> You asked about our follow-up, and Jessica pointed out that for the Penn
> and MIT workshop, we've sent out links to further open source recruitment
> events.
>
> Some things that really impressed me about the events you organize:
>
> * It must take a lot of work to put together such different event for such
> different schools! It's a real commitment to the students, and I hope that
> they appreciate it!
>
> * It's great to hear that you really like the teaching aspect that these
> events can bring, even though they're coming from recruitment within
> Mozilla. Teaching is something that we feel is really important, too.
>
> * It's also great to hear about the huge attendance you've seen at your
> events: 150 people or so at OSL! 30-50 at Stanford and MIT and Brown!
>
> Julie, we asked if you could:
>
> Soon:
>
> * Read through my "critical review of the Penn Open Source Hackathon" at
> http://lists.openhatch.org/**pipermail/events/2011-**September/000213.html<http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/events/2011-September/000213.html>
>
> * Get on the Events mailing list at the openhatch domain
>
> * Take a look at the interactive teaching tools we have, called "training
> missions," and see what you make of the git and svn ones.
>
> * See if you can help us get in touch with people interested in writing
> about the Boston Python Workshop, and how our MIT and Penn workshops had
> reasonably-balanced gender ratios (30-60% women).
>
> Eventually:
>
> * Help us with finding local contacts as we try to find computer clubs that
> want to host an instance of http://campus.openhatch.org/ , and local
> Mozilla contributors that want to help be staff for such an event
>
> * Perhaps help with travel and food sponsorship for such an event,
> especially if it's at a school that you target your outreach to
>
> Thanks for talking with us, and let's talk again soon!
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
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