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Here are the things that are planned/true about campus outreach events in the 2011-2012 school year:
I will be putting this dazzilng insight to good use in no time.
== Doing a P2PU run ==
It has been suggested that the curriculum be available as online videos. Also, I want the co-instructors for in-person events to be able to base their lectures/instruction on online videos, so they know ''exactly'' what I would teach in their situation.
One thing we've learned is that practice makes perfect; with the [[Boston Python Workshop]], for example, the more we run it, the more we know how to run it well.
Therefore, I think we should do a run of the course on the web -- let's say on P2PU, since that's everyone's favorite online learning place.
We would plan the P2PU course to use the curriculum materials used by the in-person event. This way, we're forced to write them, and we also get feedback before we use them in the in-person events.
I estimate the course would take 7 weeks (with 8 "meetings", due to the fencepost problem):
* Day 0: Introductions (why people are here, what they expect to get out of the course)
* Day 7: Linux and the command line (tar, cd, ls)
* Day 14: Communication tools (IRC, mailing lists)
* Day 21: The ethics and history of the movement; and the economics and licensing that support it.
* Day 28: Getting, modifying, and verifying open source software (getting code; local patching)
* Day 35: Project organization (bug trackers; git format-patch; github; people's roles in a project)
* Day 42: Practice contributing to a project
* Day 49: Wrap-up
Suggested time-line: New course items get published to P2PU on Tuesdays. We could go by a timeline where day 0 == Nov 15. In that case:
>>> import datetime
>>> day_0 = datetime.date(2011, 11, 15)
>>> day_0 + datetime.timedelta(days=35)
datetime.date(2011, 12, 20)
The final real lecture would be on December 20, and the "Practice contributing to a project" component would take place right around Christmas, and people could keep doing that for as long as they need/want during winter break.
== Probable places we can take the tour ==
Part of the plan is to have Asheesh roam the country/world running this course.
* 80% probable: Dartmouth, through Hacker Club. Requested date: mid-Jan.
* 80% probable: JHU ACM
Possible:
* NYU ACM
* CSC Waterloo
* Berkeley, through CSUA and everything else
== Possible sponsors ==
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* Mozilla?
* Red Hat?
* Python Software Foundation?
* WordPress.org?
* Debian's usual funders?
* Ubuntu-ish funders?
* Google RISE?
== How to get involved ==
* Join the [http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/events events mailing list] and say who you are and how you want to contribute. We'll get you plugged in.
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