Re: [TOS] The "How to contribute to FOSS" Document is Mostly Finished

Hi Kenneth, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > In my experience, and from observation I > find that sustained long term contributors to a project almost > invariably come from people who start out as users of the project/app. I agree with your characterisation of things for "volunteer" (for lack of a b

Re: [TOS] Introduction

Welcome Jason! WeBWorK is an interesting project. It appears that the site has some tasks that are appropriate for newbies to open source and there are good directions for developers on where to start. This could provide some interesting student projects! Heidi Ellis Heidi J. C. Ellis Chair a

Re: [TOS] Introduction

Hi Shiomi > > Nice. But why the erratic capital letters in the middle and end of the name? The name itself comes from "homework." Since it is on the web, they decided to call it "webwork." Very clever, right? :) As for the capitalization, I don't remember the reasoning behind that. (Although

Re: [TOS] The "How to contribute to FOSS" Document is Mostly Finished

I agree with Dave Neary's comment and would also note that many of the people involved in this list and the TOS site are instructors interested in teaching student about FOSS. Some students find FOSS on their own and fall into the "itch to scratch" category. But many students we want to reach

Re: [TOS] Introduction

Thanks Heidi, And, yes! We would welcome student developers. We currently have a CS student working on UI improvements in the instructor interface using html5, and the project has had other very successful and fairly long-term relationships with other students in the past. One issue is that per

[TOS] POSSE Alumni Grant request - SIGCSE travel

Greetings all - A little while ago I posted a couple of questions about SIGCSE on this list, and thanks to Karsten I got the answers I needed. I would like as a POSSE SA alumnus to request a grant to attend the SIGCSE 2011 conference in Dallas in March 2011. My reasons for attending the confe

Re: [TOS] POSSE Alumni Grant request - SIGCSE travel

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.

Re: [TOS] Oops! Google Chrome could not find teachingopensource.org

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 07:06:00AM -0800, tosmaillist.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: > Is the site down for maintenance? Power failure, aiui. -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team:Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSo

Re: [TOS] Oops! Google Chrome could not find teachingopensource.org

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:06 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 07:06:00AM -0800, > tosmaillist.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: > > Is the site down for maintenance? > > Power failure, aiui. Power failure on a router, more specifically. My apologies. -Chris __

[TOS] Engineer of the Future 3.0 Recap

Hey all, Here is a recap of my experience at the Engineer of the Future Conference last month. http://trosehfoss.blogspot.com/2010/12/engineer-of-future-30-recap.html Enjoy :) -Taylor Rose ___ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teaching