Hi all,
I don't know if I've made mention in this space, but I'll be moving
institutions this summer. I'll be leaving Allegheny College and
starting at Berea College in the fall. In traditional terms, I'll be a
joint hire between the Technology and Applied Design program and
Computer Science... bu
Hi Mihaela,
I go through this often. What follows is *not* meant to be harsh, but
it is how I distill these thoughts in my own head. And, I talk to
myself a lot, so I have been round-and-round this loop a few times.
Last time, I won the argument, which was a refreshing change.
(o_0)
Humor aside,
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 13:19, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> Anyone have good pictures for the placeholders Mel has?
I'll find some pictures of me.
(I will dig around and see what, if any, POSSE-related photos I might have.)
> Regarding the yellow highlighting in the theme (ptkb aka promotional
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:43, Ian Weller wrote:
> So, basically, I can get it done without having to wait on other things
> as soon as the design is finalized/approved.
I think "approved" in this context means "it goes live, and we can
tweak/edit later."
It looks great, and should go live. I th
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 15:19, Jay Borenstein
wrote:
> In the long term, I'd like to see my project teams at Stanford
> collaborating not just with the open source project maintainers, but
> working in teams that incorporate students at other universities as
> well. I think this will introduce al
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:20, Bonnie MacKellar wrote:
> I am feeling very technically out of it right now! What is NYC Resistor?
I did a Google search for "NYC Resistor" and found their homepage:
http://www.nycresistor.com/
It has both "About" and "Contact" links. I recommend those, as well as
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 17:24, Michael Shiloh
wrote:
> nyc resistor (hacker space)
>
> makerbot, makers of the cupcake and thing-o-matic 3d printers, all open
> source, immensely fun, and the people are wonderful speakers! i'd be happy
> to make introductions if you wish
+1
And then, please put
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 23:17, Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail
wrote:
> Just sharing this idea of mine. http://campuscamp.org
>
> The goal is to nurture a culture of sharing within educational
> institution. Topics are not limited to FOSS, attendees may talk about
> anything, from hobby, to research pap
2011/11/17 Bonnie MacKellar :
> I imagine many of you have seen Mark Guzdial’s post on what is happening
> with FERPA at Georgia Tech?
GT has engaged in CYA politiks with respect to FERPA. The students are
of the age of majority; while the law says I cannot disclose what
classes students are enrol
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:10, Clif Kussmaul wrote:
> Good news – SIGCSE accepted our 50 Ways poster proposal.
> It is scheduled for Friday, March 2, 2012 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
I had no idea! I must have missed the boat when it went by.
Good stuff.
Cheers,
M
_
Hi Mel,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:05, Mel Chua wrote:
> So, the HFOSS folks aren't doing a pre-conference symposium -- do we want
> to?
I'm in. And, like GregH, I have no particular experience, but I'm
happy to unrun things.
Cheers,
M
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tos mailing
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:50, Mel Chua wrote:
> * sociology of open source
> * online communities of practice
> * authentic learning experiences online
> * distributed collaboration
> * institutional resistance to change -- paradigm shifts (Kuhn) with respect
> to curricular revisions
Those feel
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:36, Luis Ibanez wrote:
>> 1. The quote extrapolates from research that does not actually address
>> the claims made.
>>
>> 2. The research itself makes claims that, quite possibly, the
>> underlying data does not support.
> Your opinions in items (1) and (2) in your ema
Hi all,
Podcast number two is done. Mary, I'll try and improve my throughput.
They take me a few hours to assemble, which is part of why this is
taking as long as it is.
Accompanying text will go into the system shortly. I want to hear from
the interviewee before we go live.
Feedback welcome.
h
2011/9/14 C. Titus Brown :
> Quoting from his post,
>
> """
> These results suggest that undergrads doing OSS for a course are still
> providing a service and are likely still gaining good experience working on a
> larger code base, but they’re unlikely to become part of the established
> developer
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:03, Dave Neary wrote:
> Interesting source! I wasn't aware of this. Know how I can get my hands
> on the original?
The paper can be grabbed here:
http://goo.gl/o6hhi
I found the link in a blog post about the paper.
http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/07/18/book-clu
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 08:59, Bonnie MacKellar wrote:
> and at the school where I last taught. At these schools, the faculty
> teaching CS tend to be very dependent on the IT staff. Unless the IT staff
> can install the software and show the faculty how to use it, they simply
> won't use it i
Hi Bonnie,
I hadn't checked my reader yet today.
Mark is right: it isn't an apprenticeship model. That said, neither
the community nor educators working on getting their students engaged
believe that is what will happen in fourteen weeks. So, it's a kind of
vacuous concern: the people doing it ar
Hi Ralph,
2011/9/5 Ralph Morelli :
> widespread acceptance of this approach. If experienced faculty, such as
> you and Allen and I, have problems incorporating FOSS into our courses,
> it's even worse for young faculty who have to worry about tenure.
Could you explain more, for this community,
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 13:27, David Nalley wrote:
> I'd edit on the wiki directly and make your changes there. It is a
BE BOLD.
Just edit. The worst thing that can happen to that content is (1) no
one contributes to it and (2) no one uses it.
Cheers,
Matt
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On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 10:40, Mel Chua wrote:
> Sebastian, it's all yours. *handoff!* Finish n' ship, I'm off to meetings
> and hacking on other SIGCSE stuff in between and won't look at this again.
Looks good. If it can get shorter, that's probably fine. However, it
reads pretty clean as is.
Ni
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 09:41, Matthew Jadud wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 08:55, Kevin Mark wrote:
>> The words I've heard from various folks is the word 'pre-print' copy. There
>> seems to be some exception granted for a version of that paper that exists
Actu
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 08:55, Kevin Mark wrote:
> The words I've heard from various folks is the word 'pre-print' copy. There
> seems to be some exception granted for a version of that paper that exists
Which many people do on their own. You can, probably, proceed to point
places like Citeseer a
Hi Mary,
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 18:22, Mary Bitter wrote:
> Hi Matt! We don't think we have a magic podcast infrastructure BUT the good
> news is we are already working on it.. We should know more on Monday. Stay
> tuned & happy weekend.
> mab
Sure thing. I wasn't worried, per se.
I'll try and
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 09:23, Matthew Jadud wrote:
> Thanks Greg, and everyone else who had a listen.
Related, and unrelated:
I have three CC-BY or CC-BY-SA tunes lined up for the intro/outro
rolls, but after that, I'm out. (Finding groovy CC music for this kind
of thing takes time.)
I
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 09:15, Gregory Hislop wrote:
> Good job Matt! I took a quick listen and the sound was good.
Thanks Greg, and everyone else who had a listen.
Mary, I'm around today, and can get online or chat on the phone about
how we might handle the content (if you've got a few minutes
Hi all,
At POSSE 2011, we began discussing the idea of running a pre/post
survey of students engaged in FOSS participation in the classroom. We
thought:
1. We should share that thought with everyone on the list,
2. If we want to do that this year (we should), then some of us
probably need to get
Hi all,
Mary Bitter gave me a set of deadlines to hit, which means I now must
get the podcasts edited in a timely manner. We like the series title
"Those Who Can Teach and Do", and think it's going to climb the charts
in a hurry. Well, actually, I'm just hoping to edit the current
interviews befor
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 18:23, Kevin Mark wrote:
> I think if you have not set some nickname (not sure what its called), then it
> shows that string of symbols with an @ sign.
Ah. Thanks Mark. I clearly don't use Flickr very often...
Cheers,
Matt
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t
Hi all,
I've posted some photos from POSSE 2011. I didn't do any image editing
(white balance, etc.), and am happy to pull any pictures from the set.
(They're rather boring pictures, so I'm not sure why that would be the
case, but it's nice to offer just the same.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 17:05, Mel Chua wrote:
> Question -- is the intent here to quickly set up services we don't already
> have and are not on OSU's list of "software that is really easy for us to
> install" (as in gitosis), or to migrate things from OSU (as in redmine)? The
> first sounds l
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 16:29, Ian Weller wrote:
> - I honestly can't remember if there are any others we need
Planets. Either stand-alone (Venus?) or WordPress running the
appropriate plugin. I'm inclined to suggest the latter for
flexibility.
If we go this way, I'm happy to help script the pro
Hi all,
It is time for me to get my interviews processed and posted to the
opensource.com/edu channel. Mixing them down will be less of a
challenge than I convinced myself of, but I have a question about
process/outcome.
Here's a sample file:
http://jadud.com/people/mcj/files/1024-grant-intervie
Hello all,
2011/5/23 Ian Weller :
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:49:34PM -0400, Matthew Jadud wrote:
>> There were three infrastructure points that we wanted to see move
>> forward, one of which is already being addressed (mailing list
I'm following up on infrastructure-related
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 01:51, Kevin Mark wrote:
> material still being private. So do you think your list is going to be
> permanently private?
Hi Mark,
My hope is that the list isn't permanent at all. I think (but could be
wrong) that the spirit of such a list is for private discussion of
curre
Hi Mihaela,
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 07:10, Sabin, Mihaela wrote:
> I'm interested in a three-OS's installation on a MacBook Pro (MacOS, Windows
> 7, and a Linux distro). Any experience with this kind of configuration and
> suggestions are very much welcome!
I run OSX and put everything else und
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 17:05, Andrew Hamblin wrote:
> For this chapter I think a set of 5 true/false questions(I've got a few
> scribbled down, but I'm going to set a 30 min timer and see if I can't
Part of what I like about FOSS interaction is that it is very much
about Analysis/Synthesis/Eval
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:20, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> Thoughts?
I always think of "Pinky and the Brain" when faced with that question.
At a glance, looks good. ("+1", as they say.) I'm "off" through
Tuesday of next week, so anything more detailed will have to wait, but
it looks good/sounds
2011/5/23 Ian Weller :
> (Looks like your email cut in two here... missing point number 1.)
It was too amazing to share with you, so I removed it after writing it.
(Actually, in my original draft, it's gone too. Dunno what point 1
was. I'm sure it was amazing, though.)
> So something like Redmin
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 00:16, Mel Chua wrote:
> If it's not on here, it's not going to be in Ian's queue. (And if it's
> filed, it means he'll *consider* it when he does weekly priority scans
> on what to work on for that week -- there's far more work to do than can
> humanly be done!)
Hi all,
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 05:21, MJ Ray wrote:
> If you want to use the dodgy religion analogy: it's not reasonable to
> ask that people agree to get along if you insist on calling all
> Christianity by the name Lutheranism, is it?
That does explain. Thank you. (The dodgy analogy actually made it
e
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 06:30, MJ Ray wrote:
> Could someone broaden the description on
> http://mail.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
> to talk about FOSS and not only "Open Source", please?
Would it be possible to declare TOS an OSS/FOSS/FLOSS-debate-free
zone? In the spirit of relig
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 01:45, Mel Chua wrote:
> 2. TOS publications - I'm struggling with this. So far, I looked for
> published books and papers, and found... 1 this year
> (http://myopensoftware.org/). Do conference presentations count the same
> way as publications? Do they have to be presenta
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 19:44, Mel Chua wrote:
> So I mocked up a few things. My apologies for the color scheme. And then
> I figured I'd ask folks if the displays I was first inspired to make
> would actually be the most useful ones to track:
>
> http://mchua.fedorapeople.org/tos-scorecard/public
Hello all,
Like Mihaela, I'm also wondering if we're able to support a SIGCSE
2011 travel request. I've managed to find funds to cover registration
and room, but I'm short travel.
1. I'll be contributing to a panel on HFOSS along with several other
TOS members[1].
2. I anticipate contributing
Hi all,
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Jadudm/SIGCSE2011
Perhaps someone already did this, perhaps not. If you have sessions
you'd like us to try and catch for blogging/etc., or people you'd like
us to try and interview/talk with, add them there. This might provide
some coordination
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 09:02, Matthew Jadud wrote:
> I'm going to do my best to survive through until SIGCSE, and then wait
> for Mel to tell me what to do.
I may try and capture a bit of what is going on in the CS-ED research
space, as this is where I tend to do some of my own r
[ACTION: Release form? (See below.)]
2011/3/3 Sabin, Mihaela :
> Same here, I’ll blog and coordinate with Leslie and Ralph.
I'm going to do my best to survive through until SIGCSE, and then wait
for Mel to tell me what to do.
I'm going to travel with my solid-state audio recorder and (most
likel
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:46, Mel Chua wrote:
> Raleigh, actually! - and this is one of the things I think the groups in
> Asia that have contacted Harish can help with.
This is looking good. I'm barely keeping up with myself, so I've only
skimmed it, but it is looking good. Perhaps at SIGCSE we
2011/2/19 Karsten Wade :
> Honestly, I'd prefer you not to be quiet, but I'd also prefer us to
> not derail work.
Fair enough. And, your reply helped. It was the first message I've
seen that provides the needed context to understand the scope/strategy
being taken. As you pointed out, I was clearl
2011/2/18 Karsten Wade :
> One important thing in open source culture that we seem to be
> forgetting here is that "the person who does the work, decides how
> that work gets done."
I can easily see how OSUOSL, with substantial support in terms of
people, resources, etc., can meet many/all of the
2011/2/17 Ian Weller :
> Just a quick ping -- what's the status on this? Is there an email I
> missed that I need to reply to?
Put simply, I think a mistake is being made if we don't use the OSUOSL
infrastructure, and instead rely on two or three volunteers to keep
things going.
Cheers,
Matt
2011/2/16 Nicholas Whittier :
> maintenance, and administrative fees. A small for-profit organization could
> easily render something like Sakai a more viable product, as the associated
I believe Allegheny outsources their Sakai hosting to just such a company.
> Are there any silver-tongued, Sak
Hi all,
I have a student who is doing an extended research piece on the role
of social tools (blogs, microblogging, etc.) in (most likely)
educational contexts. I'd like to connect him up with someone who
works in this space/develops tools in this space that he could talk to
as part of his researc
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 16:11, Matthew Jadud wrote:
> How many are "plenty," and when you say "volunteer," what are they
Sorry. I found the infrastructure page wiki. Answered part of my own question.
And, reading the discussion, it's clear that this is not to pro
2011/2/11 Ian Weller :
> As Karsten said in his earlier email (thanks!), there is indeed a desire
> within the TOS community to run the infrastructure ourselves, modeling
Who wants to run the infrastructre? Personally, I think OSU has a
great infrastructure, and we probably have more to gain by ha
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 13:20, Mel Chua wrote:
> Imagine being able to hand out something like this alongside your normal
> business card:
Could do. I have a hard time remembering to carry my business cards,
let alone more. But... it could be good to have some for use during
SIGCSE. I would say t
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:53, Mel Chua wrote:
> Conciseness: not my strong point. I can't come up with anything shorter
I always think it is good to author content for clarity first, and
then edit for concision later. We can edit for brevity when it reaches
0.9 status.
Cheers,
M
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:55, Mel Chua wrote:
> In the spirit of release early, release often...
>
> == Short version ==
>
> Professors!, can you do me a favor if you have 10 minutes and check out
> http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Red_Hat_education_strategy#Pitch_to_professors
> and
> htt
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:04, Heidi Ellis wrote:
> Ah, another great idea! I like it! And yes, OSCON takes panels.
> Matt and Jeff and Greg, thoughts?
"We're gettin' the panel back together..."
I'm cool with it, as long as we road trip to Portland and wear sunglasses.
Cheers,
M
(Sounds like a
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 07:44, Heidi Ellis wrote:
> Hey Matt,
>
> Wanna join our submission? Greg and I didn't realize that it was so close in
> content and more experience is welcome! Are you in the OSCON system already?
> Let me know if you'd like to be added.
> Heidi
Actually, I realized that I
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 22:19, Heidi Ellis wrote:
> Following in Mel and Sebastian's footsteps, Greg and I submitted the
> proposal below to OSCON. I note that our text is nowhere near as prosaic as
> Mel and Sebastian's :-)
>
> Heidi
Ah, well. That scraps my submission.
Cheers,
M
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Hi Jeff,
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 22:37, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote:
> Hey all - I'd be submitting a talk to OSCON about using collaborative
> communities to teach open source to developers who may not have had previous
> experience with open source. Also submitting to Collab Summit, will send a
> not
Hi all,
I've been thinking on and off about OSCON, and I'm not sure what I'd
submit if I were to submit anything. I could submit an "experience
report"-style talk regarding our FOSS integration attempts over the
past year, but beyond that, my brain is a bit empty of ideas.
Thought I'd throw that
2011/1/25 Nicholas Whittier :
> Again, I'm relatively new to the mailing list, so apologies if this has
> already been discussed, but what about a TOS forum or issue tracker? I am
Today is an odd day... but something about this makes me laugh, and I
wonder what would happen if we did it.
Should
2011/1/20 Lextori :
> exercise. Some more details of what I'm thinking can be found on my project
> blog, http://hacking-education.blogspot.com/
> My question to the community is, would this be a useful contribution to the
> project, or is there something that would be more immediately helpful?
Pe
Hi all,
I need to be in direct touch with faculty who are interested in POSSE
Ph. I currently have no idea how many faculty may, or may not, be
interested in taking part.
What is needed to make
http://possereg.teachingopensource.org/apply/
go live? Or, if you prefer: would turning that on for P
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 15:05, Chris Tyler wrote:
> Just to be clear: I am entirely in favor of making life easier for
> faculty, in particular: push-button pony making. I am not in favor of
More ponies!
> neighborhood as existing projects. But as I mentioned, I'm not aware of
> a push-button pl
Hi all,
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 13:29, Heidi Ellis wrote:
> constraint is time. Computing profs already have to keep up with the latest
> technology changes. Involving students in OSS is a change in teaching
I had a detailed response to some of the earlier posts, but let it
sit. (I didn't like h
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 06:47, Mel Chua wrote:
> We need sysadmin cycles we can allocate to ironing out these sorts of
> burrs. Maybe we need a ticket queue where we can request these sorts of
I know this sounds like cheating...
I got tired of maintaining these kinds of tools on a virtual machin
2011/1/10 Karsten Wade :
> Can you define 'UOCD-type'? google.com is particularly unhelpful so
Sorry about that; it was a shared context with Mel and Sebastian.
"User Centered Collaborative Design."
http://design.olin.edu/courses/uocd/
> Opening the eyes of many FLOSS projects to the need to wo
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 15:07, Mel Chua wrote:
> Total time required: 40 hours + conference. It'll take more than a week
> - maybe it'll even take a year - but this might be more flexible and
> manageable for academics.
A year, definitely.
I have a UOCD-type question: why does the user want to ta
Hi Robert,
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 13:43, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> C). He is also working towards getting his RHCE certificate before he
> graduates. Wondering which *Canadian* universities would be a good fit
> for such a student?
UBC has a good CS programme if he wants to stay near home. And
Hi Heidi,
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 16:32, Heidi Ellis wrote:
> I used a fairly document heavy approach that had students complete a set of
> templates based on IEEE standards, which are all online and available for
> use [5]. There are also rubrics linked from that page. I used the documents
That
Hi Clif,
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 14:41, Clif Kussmaul wrote:
> I've had good experiences with FOSS in capstone projects in a variety of
> forms.
Do you have any links to how you structured these activities? Timing,
expectations, grading, etc?
> In my experience, the challenge is getting the stu
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 16:57, Mel Chua wrote:
>> Next term I'll have a 2-week module in our Junior Seminar within the
>> Comp Sci department, and I'd like to put forward a model for the
> Copying the program admin, Andrew Louis, on this email - Andrew, I think
> you're already on the TOS list, bu
Hi all,
I know a number of you have models at your institutions for this, so I
think what I'm asking for are URL pointers.
We have a required senior exercise at Allegheny.
http://sites.allegheny.edu/academics/senior-project/
Next term I'll have a 2-week module in our Junior Seminar within the
C
2010/12/3 Grant Hearn :
> news from all of you on what you've been doing; I'd really like to make a
> good presentation on what we've been doing to the TOS BoF at SIGCSE. Any
That would be awesome. I like the idea of you playing "human bridge"
from the POSSE SA group as you come to SIGCSE. Very c
Hi Grant,
One minor comment.
2010/12/1 Grant Hearn :
> Accommodation 850
You should be able to room with someone (I think I may have a roommate
already), so this number can be cut down, FWIW. (I've roomed with
someone at every SIGCSE I've attended, which is very useful w/ limited
travel budgets.
Hi all,
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Practical_OSS_Exploration_-_Designing_the_Code
I started my work on "Designing the Code." I'm going to explore design
"in the small" and "in the large". In the case of the former, I'm
recommending students follow the "design recipe" as put forward i
2010/11/8 Karsten Wade :
> What if it tied back to the POSSE curriculum? Or is that too
> educator-specific to be generally applied to any student base?
Dunno. It was mostly a brainstorm comment -- that is, a possible
challenge in "selling" the book might have to do with the natural
question of "
Hi Karsten,
2010/11/5 Karsten Wade :
> I apologize for this utter failure of FOSS <=> ACAD interface. My
> intention had been to get textbook work going much earlier, but alas
> that didn't happen.
Part of your challenge is that it is not clear what course or courses
this is a "textbook" for. A
Hi Stephen,
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 13:06, Stephen Jacobs wrote:
> been discussing with us can be found at http://designsomething.org/ They've
> also provided us with a pico projector development kit. It may be worth it
> to reach out to your regional TI reps
Good point. Xilinx is often good
Hi Michael,
2010/10/22 Michael Adeyeye
> (financial and academic) from the community.The research areas would require
> buying some SDKs. I have been able to classify them into three, namely User
> Equipment, Communication/Network, and Andriod SDKs.
I have generally been careful with hardware
Hi Leslie,
2010/10/6 Leslie Hawthorn :
> Matthew, I am sad to say that I was not able to meet up with Sara and
> Stephanie, but I am sure they had a great time at Grace Hopper.
No worries. Grace Hopper was their first academic conference, and by
their account, they had an excellent time meeting p
2010/10/4 Luis Ibanez :
> I'm looking for a comprehensive text to assign
> as mandatory reading, ideally in the order of
> 20~30 pages long.
> "Abstract Patents and Software"
> http://www.researchoninnovation.org/dopatentswork/dopat9.pdf
>
> from the book
> "Patent Failure"
> by James Bessen and M
Hi Remy,
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 14:10, Remy DeCausemaker wrote:
> I applaud your conception, but I'd be sure to include a solid software
> development component into the coursework, but I may be developer biased ;)
The course is a freshman seminar that is about grounding and growing
writing, pre
HI all,
I have had many opportunities to work with first-year
non-computer-science students lately. Feedback on the course I'm
planning for next term is welcome. So far, I've got a course
description, one text, and a plan for how to get the students to
engage with local and remote communities.
La
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 17:22, Heidi Ellis wrote:
> applying the term to students but less so applying it to themselves (we're
> supposed to be in charge you know, can't have the leader be lost :-) ) Some
Here, here! Decentralization wonderful, but... wait, I'm not in charge?!
> Whereas being pro
2010/9/28 Leslie Hawthorn :
> Hello everyone,
> In case you missed the note in a previous thread, I'm wrangling a TOS meetup
> at the Grace Hopper Conference [0] for this Friday, 10/1 at lunch time
> (12:30 Eastern time). We will meet up at the conference registration desk in
> the Grand Hall Foyer
Hi Mark,
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 15:00, Mark Surman wrote:
> Question: are there other people on this list interested in a) coming to
> Barcelona and b) running teaching open source style sessions?
>
> Current content and overview are here:
>
> http://www.drumbeat.org/festival
> https://wiki.mozi
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 18:42, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> (Also, no one's been replying to my emails lately. If I've done something
> weird in the
> community or offended people, do please let me know so I can address the
> issue.)
For the faculty, we're moving into prime "lets be buried by things
Hi Heidi, all,
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 21:48, Heidi Ellis wrote:
> wouldn't want you to become exactly like a prof. We need you to be "you",
> not us. To provide your perspective on software development in the OSS
> means that you'll never craft a perfect curriculum for even a majority of
> the
Hi Mel,
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 20:00, Mel Chua wrote:
> This is still a work in progress! Remember, I don't actually know how to
> design a workshop or write a curriculum or any of that, I'm making this
I would recommend buying Reigeluth's "Instructional Theory and Design
II," slowing down, doi
Hi Sebastian,
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 00:00, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> I'll be helping out with the TOS Birds of a Feather, which I'm also
> willing to help organize. If it would be helpful, I'd also like to
> help with the TOS workshop at SIGSCE. As a student, I'm also going to
It will be a w
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:57, Mel Chua wrote:
> (Note to self: professors are amazing. I thought I was good at hitting
> last-minute deadlines as a student, but this is at a whole different
> level.. clearly I must step up my game. :)
Actually, I think we prefer to work further ahead of deadline
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:12,
wrote:
> If POSSE is a TeachingOpenSource.org project, why aren't these
> materials available somewhere on the TeachingOpenSource.org domain? I
> understand everyone here, me included, is working with several Open
> Source projects, but each project team should have
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 21:03, Mel Chua wrote:
> We want to be transparent about this and hear comments and thoughts that
I think, as a "brand' in the FLOSS/education space it makes sense to
move to protect POSSE, and I'm not sure what other entity would do so.
+1.
Cheers,
Matt
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 13:47, Mel Chua wrote:
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource/2010-09-02/posse-prototyping.2010-09-02-18.58.html
Ah. Thanks for the prompt, Mel...
I'm going to be drafting a panel discussion proposal. At OSCON I had a
conversation with Heidi E. and Greg H. a
Hi Mel, all,
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 23:22, Mel Chua wrote:
> Another excellent idea. Folks, if you'd like to attend, please send
> funding proposals to the list. If you're a POSSE alumni, there's a
> larger ($32k between now and March) budget pool we can draw from if we
> can make the argument t
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