Mozilla Open Source

[gabrielaKA]

California State University Dominguez Hills Mozilla Open Source Club

What was your highlight from last year

One of our officers won first place at a Capture the Flag type of local competition.

What is/are the project(s) your Club worked on

Most of our members took part in the organization of a Cyber Security Conference. The event received an award for best attended event for the 2017/2018 school year.

The club hosted Unity workshops. The purpose was introduction to gaming IDE.

In addition, a member from the club volunteered to teach the rest of the members Android Development.

What was the most challenging issue that your Club had to deal with

Attendance was major issue for us. During the Spring semester we were getting together three times a week so we can accommodate the availability of the members. Despite our efforts we didn't achieve more than 5 people present at a single meeting.

The core student population of our university is very diverse. It attracts people of all ages, we have a good percentage of students who work full time, as well as students who have families to take care of. Therefore, finding common interests and people willing to give donate their time to a cause is challenging.

Moreover, the location of outer LA is very busy, a lot of students commute and traffic is horrible. As a result, there are no students willing to come to school on a day they don't have classes.

Lastly, school administration have specific requirements for clubs, such as monthly meetings, roster submission, forms to be completed by officers including GPA, class enrollment etc. Naturally, for any extra work outside curriculum, which doesn't contribute to personal development or gain, there are any to none students willing to take on.

As the Club's leadership, what would be something that you would like to stop doing?

President: It would be best for me to delegate some responsibilities, so that I can focus on making the club desirable place to be. Currently, I am handling all the administration part of the club existence. Even more, I have been the only person who would be present at every meeting of the club. The fact that we had 21 members as of the end of the Spring semester, doesn't make it easy to delegate responsibilities.

As the Club's leadership, what would be something that you would like to start doing?

In its desperate attempts to attract members, the club would tackle every extra curriculum activity a prospective member is interested in. I would prefer to change my strategy to few clearly defined goals/activities at the beginning of the school year. I am willing to take the risk of only few to several people attending because at the end of the day our school environment provides for spreading the word from friend to friend in which case having few solid members passionate about what they are doing, talking about it and eventually bringing new members is smarter move than many people attending with no purpose.

Treasurer: Designing goodies such as Logo T-Shirts and mugs for members. Basically, asking them to be consistently come to the club meetings, contributing to the club activities in order to receive a Logo item.

As the Club's leadership, what would be something that you would like to continue doing?

Being stubborn and present every week, showing high interest, being an example for our members, making the club a place to learn and grow professionally by mandatory LinkedIn exchange.

Please something that you would like to share with the Open Source Student Network

Data Stacking is the last concept I came across and I was fascinated, maybe someone else will find it interesting topic. Basic info can be found here https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2012/11/indepth-data-stacking.html