Hi Luis, I was also looking at OSCON's call and noticed that they don't have anything on education at the meeting. I would be interested in participating in this on behalf of HFOSS and would be willing to help organize it, if needed. Your outline looks like a great start.
Best, -- ralph 2010/1/4 Luis Ibanez <luis.iba...@kitware.com> > > Hi Karlie, > > Thanks for bringing this up. > > Yes, we have been brainstorming on proposing > an "Education" track for OSCON 2010. > > Please find below what we have as a very early > sketch: > > (You will notice that many of the topics/ideas > are taken from our discussions at TOSS last > October) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Proposal for OSCON 2010 > > 1) Propose a track that includes the following > two topics: > > a) Education about FOSS > b) Using FOSS in Education > > > 2) We could look for four to five talks > on each one of the two topics above, > plus an open panel. > > The panel could be focused on > "what should be taught in a FOSS course" > > and another on: > > "How to connect student projects to > FOSS junior jobs." > > > 3) The presentations should include > > * RedHat POSSE > * Google SoC > * OLPC > * Sugar Labs > * Kubuntu > > > 3) Organizations that we should > encourage to participate: > > * Oregon U. Open Source Lab > * Carnegie Mellon Open Source Lab > * Seneca College > * Trinity > * HFOSS > * OLPC / Sugar Labs > * RIT > * RPI > * Please add here.... > > > 4) We could also pursue getting FOSS > companies to write and/or endorse a > white paper on the importance of FOSS > Education for EE and CS majors. > > Such document will be a great help for > Professors who need to raise awareness > with the administration of their own > institutions. > > > > > Please let us know what you think. > > > Thanks > > > Luis > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 2010/1/1 Karlie Robinson <karlie_robin...@webpath.net> > >> Is anyone planning on going to this? We should really be getting TOS on >> the list at a lot of these. Otherwise is there a plan on how we can get to >> more Birds of a feather and EDU conferences to give talks? >> >> ~Karlie >> >> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] OSCON Call >> for Proposals Now Open Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:22:01 +0300 From: Frankie >> Mangoa <frankieman...@gmail.com> <frankieman...@gmail.com> Reply-To: >> fedora-ambassadors-l...@redhat.com To: >> fedora-ambassadors-l...@redhat.com >> >> Hi, >> happy new year ad rust this mail gets to you at the best of health. >> I am not too sure how to ask this but I was wondering if one can not >> make it to the meeting in pysical presence is there any other way of >> attending like maybe an online attendance. >> sorry if my question may sound a little of course. >> >> Please let me know. >> >> thank you in advance. >> >> regards, >> Frankie >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Kevin >> Higgins<crossby...@fedoraproject.org> <crossby...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> > OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention >> > July 19 - 23, 2010 >> > Oregon Convention Center >> > Portland, OR >> > http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z6vqe2gib3muftdm7gevnvjou1imluto4nphda30 >> > >> > Faster, Freer, Smarter: Whatever your Goal, Make It Happen with Open Source >> > >> > More than 2,500 experts, developers, sys admins, and hackers will meet >> > up at OSCON 2010 to explore the tools, services, and platforms that >> > make up the vibrant open source ecosystem. Join us! >> > >> > The OSCON Call for Participation is now open. If you have winning >> > techniques, favorite lifesavers, war stories, productivity tips, or >> > other ideas to share, we want to hear from you. We're especially on >> > the look-out for ways to do more with less, design and usability best >> > practices, mobile device innovations, cloud computing, >> > parallelization, open standards and data, open source in government, >> > business models, and beyond. >> > >> > Speak up about the freedom--and opportunity--of open source at OSCON >> > 2010. Submit your proposal by February 1, 2010 at: >> > http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zgho9r8tiallvan68v10o80nvpncccvrj47vp6j0 >> > >> > -- >> > Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing list >> > fedora-ambassadors-l...@redhat.com >> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list >> > >> >> -- >> Fedora-ambassadors-list mailing >> listfedora-ambassadors-l...@redhat.comhttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ambassadors-list >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> tos mailing list >> tos@teachingopensource.org >> http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > >
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