Me me me... In fact, I've been lurking on the openhatch irc channel for a few months now.
On Apr 9, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Nóirín Plunkett <noi...@apache.org> wrote: > Community Project, > > Let me introduce Shauna, from Openhatch.org. > > She sets up events for college students who are interested in open source. > Her next batch of kids, at George Mason University (April 19th - > http://hackmason.org/openhatch/), is interested in Apache--would anyone be > available to go and talk with them? Alternatively, would anyone be > available to participate remotely/via video call? (I've known Openhatch for > several years now, and can strongly vouch for their awesome bona fides.) > > Openhatch also have events coming up in Boston (April 26th and 27th), > Chicago (April 26th), Salinas (May 3rd) and elsewhere, where Apache people > would be very welcome to get involved. > > There are a few main ways to be involved as a mentor. For people who are > local to an event, they are very welcome to come and mentor throughout the > day. This usually means answering questions, sometimes presenting > activities, and helping students contribute to projects. The last part of > the day involves a period of 1-3 hours where students begin to make > contributions to open source projects. If people feel there are specific > projects they know well--particularly projects you're a committer for--you > can help students contribute to those projects specifically. > > To be a "project lead" one does not have to be there in person--you can do > this remotely by being paired with a local mentor. It's also important to > note that mentors don't have to be programmers, and contributions are not > just code contributions. Any kind of open source contribution is welcome, > as are any kind of contributor. :) > > Lastly, it's also possible to be part of their "remote career panels". > When Openhatch don't have enough people to do an in-person career panel, > they get open source professionals from around the country to join in on a > video call where students ask questions like, "How do people make money off > of open source?" "Was it hard to find a job working on free/open source > software?" and others. > > Questions are probably best directed to Shauna herself--I'm just the > conduit :-) > > Thanks! > > Noirin
