Re: [TOS] Additional NSF Funding for HFOSS!
Congratulations to everyone working on this grant. I know you've been at it for quite some time. So well deserved. Can't wait to see all the good you're able to do! On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 00:15 +, Heidi Ellis wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am excited to announce that the National Science Foundation has funded > the most recent proposal created by the HFOSS team. Titled "Broadening > Participation through Authentic, Collaborative Engagement with Computing > for the Greater Good", we're calling the project OpenPace (Participation > via Authentic, Collaborative Engagement) for short. The grant is for > $1,965,000 over 5 years. > > The project has five participating institutions: Drexel (Greg Hislop, > Wes Shumar), Dickinson (Grant Braught), Nassau Community College (Darci > Burdge, Lori Postner), Western New England University (Heidi Ellis, > Stoney Jackson), and Worcester State University (Karl Wurst). There are > five additional team members at a variety of other institutions: Steven > Huss-Lederman, Open Energy Dashboard; Clif Kussmaul, Green Mango; Cam > Macdonell, MacEwan University; Allen Tucker, Non-Profit FOSS Institute; > and Wes Turner, Rensselaer Center for Open Source. > > The project will focus on providing an easier on-ramp for faculty > teaching FOSS in the form of HFOSS Kits and Instructor-Led Projects. It > also focuses on using HFOSS to attract women and other underrepresented > groups to study computing. In NSF-speak this is known as Broadening > Participation in Computing or BPC. And yes, there is some funding for > workshops so stay tuned for announcements when we can all travel again. > > Heidi > > > > ___ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ ___ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/
[TOS] AllThingsOpen Conference
Hi Folks, Just a reminder that AllThingsOpen is approaching quickly. This is a 2-day conference that covers a wide variety of talks. And its free! https://2020.allthingsopen.org/register/ >From the academic world, Ellen Spertus, Greg Hislop and I have two >presentations in a session at 2:00 PM Monday titled: 2 for 1: Introducing CS >Students to Open Source/Promoting Diversity by Featuring the Positive Power of >Open Source Projects. The three of us will also be joining Danese Cooper on a >panel titled "Education and Open Source" at 3:00 Monday. Come join us!! Heidi ___ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/
Re: [TOS] SIGCSE 2021 BoF Interest?
Grant, I might be interested, but my spare time is near 0, so I hate to commit. Teaching 2 very large classes remotely in multiple time zones has me near the breaking point. Wes On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:02 AM Braught, Grant wrote: > Hi All, > > With all the current travel restrictions and with SIGCSE 2021 being > virtual the more chances we can generate to gather and share thoughts and > ideas for how to engage students in open source the better, right? Well > the deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather submissions to SIGCSE ( > https://sigcse2021.sigcse.org/authors/bofs/) is fast approaching (October > 23rd). I am interested in submitting a proposal around ideas for engaging > students in open source and wanted to reach out to see if others might be > interested in working together on a proposal. So, if you are interested or > have thoughts on a theme (I have one or two as well) I’d love to have a > talk and see if we can work together on this. Please get in touch! > > Best, > Grant Braught > Professor of Computer Science > Dickinson College > > ___ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ > -- -- * Wesley D. Turner, Ph.D. * Director of the Rensselaer Center for Open Source and Senior Lecturer | Department of Computer Science | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 110 8th Street | Troy, New York 12180-3590 | turn...@rpi.edu | (518)276-8184 ___ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/
