[TOS] Career benefits of teach open source - German prof at CeBIT

2010-03-02 Thread Jeff Osier-Mixon
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Re: [TOS] How to become a POSSE instructor

2010-03-02 Thread Mel Chua
> How there is there anyone in India ? , i am associated with NRCFOSS > AU-KBC centre your POSSE looks similar to our there programs > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/downloads/ , > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/down/15/ Hi, Satya - we don't have any POSSE instructors in India currently, but I bel

Re: [TOS] How to become a POSSE instructor

2010-03-02 Thread Mel Chua
On 03/02/2010 02:58 AM, Mel Chua wrote: > Wow. *Thank you* for all the feedback on the wording - the last thing I > want the requirements to be is exclusive, I would *love* to see POSSEs > co-taught by Karsten, Karlie, high school students, university > sysadmins, and other community members, so it

Re: [TOS] RIT POSSE housing arrangement possibilities

2010-03-02 Thread Karl R. Wurst
Oooh! Great idea. I'll check into dorms for Worcester as well! On 3/2/10 11:20 AM, Mel Chua wrote: > Update on RIT POSSE housing arrangement possibilities: > http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_RIT#Accommodation > > The short version is "Wow, dorms are cheaper." Thanks to Jonathan for

Re: [TOS] I'd like to plan a POSSE

2010-03-02 Thread Mel Chua
> I'm Izhar Firdaus from Malaysia. I would like to plan a POSSE in one > of a local university here: PETRONAS University of Technology > (http://www.utp.edu.my). Hi, Izhar - we talked a bit on #teachingopensource the other day, so these notes are for catching up the rest of TOS about our conversa

[TOS] RIT POSSE housing arrangement possibilities

2010-03-02 Thread Mel Chua
Update on RIT POSSE housing arrangement possibilities: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_RIT#Accommodation The short version is "Wow, dorms are cheaper." Thanks to Jonathan for bringing up this option - it's a lot less logistics-messy than I thought it might be. --Mel _

Re: [TOS] Summer '10 POSSEs status

2010-03-02 Thread Magie Antonio
> However, a POSSE in October is rather late for them as they will start > working with the HS students next school year (June). So, Herson's > proposal of an "unPOSSE workshop" which would also serve as a dry run for > the October POSSE sounded really good to me. This is precisely why we initia

Re: [TOS] How to become a POSSE instructor

2010-03-02 Thread satyaakam goswami
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Mel Chua wrote: > Our biggest limitation in running POSSEs this summer is the number of > people who can teach it a POSSE right now - one major focus of this > summer is in growing the number of people in that pool. > > I made a stub at > http://teachingopensource

Re: [TOS] How to become a POSSE instructor

2010-03-02 Thread Mel Chua
Wow. *Thank you* for all the feedback on the wording - the last thing I want the requirements to be is exclusive, I would *love* to see POSSEs co-taught by Karsten, Karlie, high school students, university sysadmins, and other community members, so it's important to make sure that this desire t