[Foss-outreach-la] Welcome to the organizing group for open source outreach events in LA!

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Thank you to Murriel, Guru, Michelle for your introductions!  It seems like
there are a few different things we want to figure out:

* When would be a good time to run our first event

* Where we could host it

* Who we want to target the event at (college students?  high school
students?  women?  everyone?)

Regarding the first question, we could help you run an event as early as
mid-June, or some time during the summer or next fall. It depends on what
works for you.  For hosting, when we run events at schools we're usually
able to find a room through established procedures, but really the event
can be run anywhere that meets these criteria (
https://openhatch.org/wiki/OSCTC_space_checklist).

best
Shauna




On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Guru Devanla <grdvnl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> A) I'm Guru Devanla. I have worked has software engineer for over 12 years
> now. I am back at school finishing my PhD in Computer Science. Currently,
> in LA.
>
> B)  I contribute to open source in my free time and I believe it has been
> the force for the huge advancement we have had in all these years. I would
> like to help others contribute to open source as well!
>
> C)  Not sure, I can be a mentor, probably. And also assist in organizing.
>
> Hope to work with all of you soon!
>
> Guru
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> This is Shauna Gordon-McKeon of OpenHatch.  We met at SCaLE in February
>> and talked about Open Source Comes to Campus<http://campus.openhatch.org/>,
>> and about running open source education/outreach events in the LA area.  As
>> I mentioned to many of you, I want to put you all in touch with each other,
>> so we can work together to make these events a reality.
>>
>> I'd love it if folks could introduce themselves by saying:
>>
>> A) who they are and, if they'd like, what they do/what their background is
>> B) what their dreams are for an open source education event (where?  what
>> size?  aimed at who?)
>> C) in what capacity they'd like to be involved (organizer, volunteer
>> mentor, attendee, etc)
>>
>> I'll start:
>>
>> A) I'm Shauna Gordon-McKeon.  I work at OpenHatch and run our Open
>> Source Comes to Campus <http://campus.openhatch.org/> event series.
>>  I've got a particular interest in FOSS for scientists and FOSS built to
>> serve humanitarian/social justice purposes.
>>
>> B)  I'd love to see us run multiple events in the area, and to be part
>> of/grow the ongoing FOSS community in the area.  We're very open to
>> adapting our curriculum for high school students or other groups, and we've
>> also been experimenting with running both shorter and longer events.
>>  Basically, we want to do what works for you.  I am especially excited
>> about reaching out into new communities and reaching more underrepresented
>> groups.
>>
>> C)  I live in Boston, so I won't be able to attend most events but I can
>> help with most aspects of planning.  I can be available remotely for most
>> events, and may even be able to attend a couple (I may come back to the LA
>> area either around Grace Hopper (August) or SCaLE next year).
>>
>> It was a pleasure to meet all of you last weekend, and I'm looking
>> forward to working with you.  :)
>>
>> - Shauna
>>
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