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This is the email I sent to career panelists, as well as everyone on the Harvard event staff email list. The idea of sending it to the full staff list is so that other staffers have an idea of what to expect. I've made minor changes to improve readability and remove people's names.
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Howdy all,
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== Email 2 ==
This is what I sent to the CCSF event staff list. It is noticeably shorter.
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One thing we do for half an hour before lunch is have a bit of Q&A between one of the event's organizers and a few of the staffers to provide a sense of how open source activity integrates into their careers.
To do that, Katherine (if she is willing) will ask the questions listed toward the end of this email.
I'd love if the following staffers are willing to be on that panel:
* Person's Name
* Name of Someone Else
* A Third Person
* A Fourth Person, if you are able to make it (last minute potential staffer)
Katherine (the name of our local host, who I directed to lead the panel), use this to guide your career paneling. (Quoted from https://openhatch.org/wiki/OSCTC_Resources#Career_Panel )
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We aim for four panelists representing a diversity of open-source jobs.
For example, past panelists have included people who work for Red Hat, BoCoup Loft, the Sunlight Foundation, and the Personal Genome Project, as well as freelancers.
We start off by asking each person to introduce themselves, their current occupation, and their current employer and to talk very briefly about how that work relates to open source.
Then - questions! Frequent questions include:
* How did you first hear about/get involved in open source?
* What advice would you have for if students should participate in open source things in college? Are there particular things that do or don't matter, as things to focus on? (For example, "Definitely start your own open source project rather than contribute to existing ones" or "Don't waste time talking to people on IRC".)
* Do you have advice on what to do when approaching a project for the first time? Either in terms of code, or in terms of community.
We typically do the career panel just before lunch so that attendees can socialize with panelists immediately afterwards.
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