My name is Dawn Walker, I am a Graduate Student at the Faculty of Information at UofT. I’m helping run a free event to introduce students to free/libre/open source software on February 28, 2015 at University of Toronto called Open Source Comes to Campus in conjunction with OpenHatch (https://openhatch.org/).

We're looking for people to help mentor attendees in a variety of ways as they learn how to contribute to open source projects:

• Instruction on topics like open source community norms, issue trackers, IRC and git

• Participation on a Career Panel

• Lead a contributions workshop around a specific project (in this case potentially Open Street Map!)
  

• Or, volunteer to support attendees throughout the day!

The event run from 10am - 5pm, with coffee, tea and socializing for a half hour beforehand (Mentors don't need to show up at 9:30am sharp, but should be there by 9:45, we will also provide a lunch!).

Instructors with a variety of backgrounds are welcome: while it's great if you have tons of experience using git and setting up development environments, we're also looking for people who've been involved with open source as non-programmers, who know a bit about picking bugs and submitting patches, or who just like to talk about their experiences with open source.

If this sounds interesting to you, and you're available on February 28 please email me back at dawn.walker@utoronto.ca and/or sign up on our Event Page (https://events.openhatch.org/events/2), I'd love to answer any further questions you might have!

Best,
Dawn Walker

MI Candidate, Faculty of Information