Re: [TOS] An experience report....

2011-09-12 Thread David Nalley
2011/9/4 Heidi Ellis : > Hi Folks, > > > > Let me start by saying that I’m torn. In the spirit of being open, I was > going to blog these thoughts. But upon reflection, I decided to post them to > this group. I want to use my experience to highlight problems that I think > are major roadblocks for

Re: [TOS] best way to make suggestions on the TOS book

2011-09-04 Thread David Nalley
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Steven Huss-Lederman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm deep into teaching my FOSS class and using the TOS book for readings.   > Now that I'm carefully reading it I have some thoughts.  They range from > grammatical issues that clearly should be fixed to thoughts on > adding/m

Re: [TOS] Does Red Hat or Canonical have any student competitions?

2011-02-24 Thread David Nalley
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Chuck Payne wrote: > 2011/2/24 Kevin Cole : >> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 15:19, Dave Neary wrote: >> >>> What's their budget? Making something concrete with Arduinos would be my >>> preference. >> >> As to "budget" I don't think it's come up, the idea currently bein

Re: [TOS] TOS & POSSE at POSSCON?

2011-01-24 Thread David Nalley
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Bryant Patten wrote: > I am helping Todd Lewis with the Education Track at POSSCON  ( > http://posscon.org/ >  ) this year.  I would really like to have a session on TOS and POSSE > and I am wondering if anyone on this list is planning on coming to > POSSCON and

Re: [TOS] Infrastructure Team: Can haz?

2011-01-12 Thread David Nalley
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Subject line says it all. :) Seriously, Mel and I have been talking > about this more and more in Doha, since we're pretty sure that > there'll be a higher amount of requests coming in starting in March > (when we push strongly for furth

Re: [TOS] gifted high school student

2010-12-22 Thread David Nalley
dora would be my first recommendation (albeit a biased one) and we have a number of high school students who have become core and key contributors, and I think tend to be pretty welcoming. David Nalley. ___ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos

Re: [TOS] The POSSE trademark

2010-09-03 Thread David Nalley
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Mel Chua wrote: > This is an exploratory note and a heads-up - we've been thinking about > getting a trademark for "POSSE" (in the context of education/open > source) so that we'll be able to keep and protect that name (and the > little owl-logo) for the workshop TO

Re: [TOS] systems committee

2010-08-15 Thread David Nalley
2010/8/10 Karsten Wade : > We're starting up a systems committee to figure out and then hand off: > > * What we have now on teachingopensource.org that we want to keep; > * What we need now for tos.org that we don't have; > * What we need in the future for tos.org; > * How to handle migration; > *

Re: [TOS] TeachingOpenSource.org - Infrastructure Plans

2010-08-02 Thread David Nalley
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Matthew Jadud wrote: > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 23:10, David Nalley wrote: >> willingly offering time/people/resources/money to education in general >> and TOS.o specifically, but there's also a point at which too much >> help hinders rath

Re: [TOS] TeachingOpenSource.org - Infrastructure Plans

2010-08-01 Thread David Nalley
Inline reply, albeit largely comments from someone who is doing no TOS infrastructure work, so feel free to weight it accordingly. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: > TeachingOpenSource.org was formed in March 2009 as an outgrowth of > several discussions that took place at FSOS

Re: [TOS] Scribd

2010-06-28 Thread David Nalley
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM, wrote: > All the above is my way of suggesting that maybe now is a better time > to make a careful selection of our textbook creation tools rather than > later, especially in light of the other discussion of how well > 'Practical Open Source Software Exploration'

Re: [TOS] Textbook: Getting the Code IRC log

2010-04-14 Thread David Nalley
; case, version control) to a student asking questions about it. >> >> http://teachingopensource.com/index.php/Talk:Getting_the_Code >> >> Participants: >> Annie Morino (morinoa) >> David Nalley (ke4qqq) >> Robyn Bergeron (rbergeron) >> >> Is ther

[TOS] Thoughts on pushing out epub version of POSSE (the book)

2010-04-02 Thread David Nalley
simple to implement, so if needed I can build the epub. Thanks, David Nalley [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB ___ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos

Re: [TOS] Textbook / Mediawiki / Docbook

2010-03-17 Thread David Nalley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Use GnuPG with Firefox : http://getfiregpg.org (Version: 0.7.10) iEYEARECAAYFAkug600ACgkQkZOYj+cNI1fJ1gCdGSy1WdDOS