[TOS] 2 Faculty Positions in CS Program with Strong Commitment to Teaching FOSS/HFOSS

I am writing to spread the word about two openings for full-time computer science faculty that may be of interest to those engaged in free and open source software work. One position is a traditional tenure-track position for candidates holding a PhD. The other position can be offered at the I

Re: [TOS] Suggestions for Single Lecture about Open Source

Hi Dave, Here is a link to a class period on Open Source from my introduction to computing course that might be of interest: https://dickinson-comp130.github.io/COMP130/classes/class03.html Some context: * This is our first course so many students have never programmed before. * I do this sess

Re: [TOS] tos Digest, Vol 135, Issue 3

1. Re: What are folks teaching related to open source in the fall? (Heidi Ellis) This is a little belated but I am currently teaching two open source related courses at Dickinson: COMP190 - Tools and Techniques for Software Development An introduction to the Unix command line environmen

[TOS] From McDonalds to Google - Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey Hightower a Principle Engineer at Google gave a (virtual) talk at my institution last evening. He talks about many issues relating to both open source and broadening participation in computing that I thought might be of interest to this list. Here is some information about the talk and

[TOS] SIGCSE 2021 BoF Interest?

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://sigc

[TOS] Fwd: Open Source Software for Social Sector Survey

Hi Everyone, Below is a request for information from one of my former students who is now working on a project looking at "how the social sector engages with technology, and in particular open source software.” If you have a few minutes to complete his short survey (link below) your input woul

[TOS] Seeking collaborators for submission to TOCE Special Issue on Capstones.

Hi All, As many of you may have seen a CFP for papers for a special issue of Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) on Capstones and Projects in Computing Education was issued a few days ago. If you haven’t seen it: http://empiricalcsed.org/toce/ Would anyone be interested in collaboratin