Planning

Schedule + Ideas

9:30 AM

Steph & Joey Meet up and Setup
Matt Arrives
Some food and beverages? - coffee/tea, snacks, nametags, sticky notes

10:00 - 10:15 AM

Introductions - Joey, Steph, Matt'
What does mozilla do - why are we here, what can we do, how we can help, how you can get involved
see who of the group is familiar with github - spread them around to help tables

10:15 - 10:45 AM

The hook: Run through some common scenarios
- Scenario 1: Experimentation:
  - Thesis with _version1, _version1a, _version1b
- Scenario 2: Social Platform
  - Github as a todo list and collaboration manager (e.g. issue tracking, all parties have up-to-date copies)
- Scenario 3: Time machine capabilities
  - Track and go back
- Scenario 4: ...
  - ...

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM

Demo 1: Making your first project
Essential Pieces:
- Start with readme
- Mention contributing & code of conduct (revisit later with greater detail - and make it)
2 pathways
- Starting from scratch
- Starting from Existing
Skills needed:
- markdown
- version control / "committing"
  - "a good commit message"
  - "going back in time"
- Branching & merging

11:30 AM - 12:00 AM

Work time to create your first project or add an existing project to github
Readmes will be the focus

Break: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

continue working
Food - pizza or sandwiches, etc.

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Regroup and field comments/ feedback / questions, etc.
Demo 2: the github flow
Essentials:
- adding collaborators
- issues
- good first bugs
- Branching / Merging / Pull Request
Additional:
- contributing
- code of conduct

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Work time to go through github flow with groups/partners

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

Regroup and field comments/ feedback / questions, etc.

2:00 PM - 2:30: PM

Demo 3:
- gh-pages

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Work time to go through ...

3:00 PM

Start winding down
overview of all things learned
Closing remarks, feedback session, improvements, things that worked?

3:30 PM

Close / Cleanup