Open Source Comes to Campus/Curriculum

The following is a list of activities in roughly the order we run them at an event. (To see our typical schedule, see the Schedule page.)

Computer Setup
This starts off the day. Direct attendees to the computer setup page and have mentors walk around and see if they're getting stuck.

Open Source Communication Tools
The tools lecture, which also currently includes a "What is Open Source?" component, aims to familiarize students with tools like IRC, issue trackers, mailing lists, and version control through several activities.

Learning Git
This is a hands-on activity which teaches version control, generally, and git via github specifically. You can see the current and past versions of this presentation here.

Career Panel
There are several possible options for the career panel.

History and Ethics of Free Software
This activity has been mostly omitted from recent Open Source Comes to Campus events - mostly for time issues, but also because we think it needs a lot of work.

If you'd like to take a look, it's here.

(If you want to help improve it, that would be swell.)

Contributions Workshop
The Contributions Workshop is constantly being improved upon. Currently, it's pretty straightforward.


 * One or more organizers presents the First Tasks page and explains how to use it.
 * Local project leads as well as remote maintainers (via hangout or something similar) explain their projects in 2-5 minutes.
 * Attendees start looking through and contributing to projects while local project leads get together in small groups with interested students. The other project leads float.
 * After about 15-20 minutes, if any students are stuck (and some will be), they can do the Finding a Project activity.

We're working on brainstorming additional activities for attendees who get stuck. We're also planning to create a short guide for mentors to give them advice about how to approach students who need help but aren't asking for it (a common problem).

Wrap Up
Some notes on how we do our wrap ups can be found here.