Open Source Comes to Campus/RPI/Staff: Difference between revisions

no edit summary
imported>Paulproteus
imported>Paulproteus
No edit summary
 
(29 intermediate revisions by 7 users not shown)
Line 10:
== Venue logistics ==
 
Moved to [[../#Logistics|parent page]]
How to get there, '''by public transit''': FIXME
 
How to get there, '''by car, or for more details''': FIXME
 
Rooms reserved:
 
* Sage 4101
* Sage 5101
 
== Concept behind the weekend ==
Line 35 ⟶ 28:
== People involved ==
 
* Sat + Sun: Asheesh Laroia (585 506 8865) is formally running the event, so he's the personal fundamentally responsible for making things succeed. Also responsible for opening ceremonies, playtesting, history+ethics discussion, ordering food, sending pre-event reminder email to attendees.
* Sat + Sun: Alex Gaynor is the primary local contact, can help with anything else as necessary.
* Sat + Sun: Christopher Schmidt (from Nokia) will be a co-instructor. Nokia is an event sponsor, also!
* Sat and/or Sun: Justin Azoff
* Sat + Sun: Attendance unconfirmed: Luis Ibáñez
* Sat: Moorthy
* Sun: Graylin Kim.
* Sat + Sun: Matt McCormick - open source contributor, TA.
 
== What it means to be a module lead instructor ==
Line 56 ⟶ 54:
 
== Other essential links ==
 
For staff:
 
* [[Open Source Comes to Campus/Curriculum/Saturday|Curriculum]] details
* [[Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/UMDRPI/Laptop_setup|Laptop setup]] info
 
For attendees:
 
* FIXME: Signup link
 
== Saturday schedule ==
Line 74 ⟶ 66:
** Led by Asheesh
* 10:45 - 11: More laptop setup (if you are done early, you can Q&A with instructors)
* 11 - 11:3040 AM: Communicating as a user: finding the community and getting help
** Led by ??Alex Gaynor
* 11:3040 - 12:10 PM: History and ethics of free, open source software
** Led by Asheesh
* 12:15 PM: BreakSplit into groups, in preparation +for lunchmodules.
* 12:30 PM: Lunch
* 1:15 PM: Split into groups of max size 10, with 2 staff in each group. Students stay put; staff rotate between rooms.
* 1 PM - 2 PM: Module 1 (1h)
* 21:0515 PM - 2:5515 PM: Module 21 (50min1h)
* 32:0020 - 3:4510 PM: Module 32 (45min50min)
* 3:4515 PM- 4:05 Come back intoPM: theModule full3 group(50min)
* 34:5510 PM: Wrap-up:Come back feedback,into andthe nextfull stepsgroup
* 4:10 PM: Wrap-up: feedback, and next steps
 
Students rotate between the following three modules:
 
* More about the command line, taught by Luis
* Getting, modifying, and verifying open source software, taught by Asheesh
* Project organization (bug trackers; git format-patch; github; people's roles in a project), taught by crschmidt
 
== Sunday ==
Line 104 ⟶ 97:
To do:
* We should come up with a hand-selected list of good bite-sized bugs across projects.
* https://etherpad.mozilla.org/sunday-rpi has that list, in progress -- add bugs from your project if possible!
 
== Outreach ==
Line 109 ⟶ 103:
Places we should email: [https://etherpad.mozilla.org/rpi-signup sample signup email]
 
* RCOS - Alex sent a note
* All CS undergrads - Alex sent a note
* All CS grads - ??
* Albany.edu women in computing: http://www.albany.edu/cci/cciwit.php (Asheesh pinged Jennifer Goodall here on Thu Apr 12; on Fri she replied saying someone had sent a note to their mailing list already)
* UAlbany American Society for Information Science and Technology: http://ualbanyasist.drupalgardens.com/ -- Graylin sent a note
* RPI Women in tech point people: Asheesh pinged Barbara and Sehrish at http://www.eng.rpi.edu/wmp/contactNew.cfm
* Union college CS department -- Asheesh pinged [http://cs.union.edu/~barrv/ Dr. Barr]
 
Instructors I've tried to reach:
 
* Justin Azoff (no response)
* James Toy (unavailable)
* Friends of Mo's
* Slash Root folks (no reply)
* David Czarnecki of Agora Games (no reply)
* Nathan Fixler via Github
* Zachary Bedell via Github
Anonymous user