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Hi all,<br>
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I was in touch with the organizers of the Toronto MappyHour and they
suggested I post this here ---<br>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">My
name is Dawn Walker</span><span
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</span><span
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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 </span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">February
28, 2015 </span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">at
</span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">University
of Toronto</span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">:
Open Source Comes to Campus in conjunction with </span><a
href="https://openhatch.org/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">OpenHatch</span></a><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://openhatch.org/">https://openhatch.org/</a>).</span></p>
<br>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We're
looking for people to help mentor attendees in a variety of ways
as they learn how to contribute to open source projects:</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Instruction</span></a><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
on topics like open source community norms, issue trackers,
IRC and git</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Participation
on a </span><a
href="https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum/Career_Panel"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Career
Panel</span></a><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Lead
a </span><a
href="https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/Curriculum#Contributions_Workshop"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">contributions
workshop</span></a><span
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around a specific project (in this case potentially Open
Street Map!)<br>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Or,
volunteer to support attendees throughout the day!</span></p>
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</ul>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
event run from </span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">10am
- 5pm</span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">,
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). Here are links to find out more about the </span><a
href="https://events.openhatch.org/events/2"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Event</span></a><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">
and </span><a
href="https://openhatch.org/wiki/OpenHatch_event_code_of_conduct"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Code
of Conduct</span></a><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">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.</span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">If
this sounds interesting to you, and you're available on February
28 please </span><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">email
me back at </span><a href="mailto:dawn.walker@utoronto.ca"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">dawn.walker@utoronto.ca</span></a>
and/or sign up on our </span><a
href="https://events.openhatch.org/events/2"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Event
Page</span></a><span
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(</span><a href="https://events.openhatch.org/events/2"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">https://events.openhatch.org/events/2</span></a><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">)</span><a
href="mailto:dawn.walker@utoronto.ca"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;"></span></a><span
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I'd love to answer any further questions you might have!</span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Hope
to hear from you,</span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Dawn
Walker</span></p>
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style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">MI
Candidate, Faculty of Information</span></p>
<span
style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">University
of Toronto</span>
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