We're welcoming some new professors to the TOS list from POSSE Doha - introductions shamelessly copied from our "we made our first commit!" email to the Fedora Websites list (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2011-January/009157.html), so you can get an idea of who everybody is, and their teaching and research interests.
Welcome aboard, folks! Join the fun. --Mel --- Saquib Razak saquibrazak at gmail.com - I teach introductory programming courses and want to introduce open source development to students. (Mel notes: If you're working on an open source project that could use the efforts of about 20 new contributors who have completed basic programming courses (but may be new to large-scale open source software development) for a semester - maybe 5 hours of work a week per student - and are willing to take the time to mentor/guide them and build documentation on how they can get started with your project, email Saquib.) Citizen Ben ctzenben at gmail.com - I work on Arabic human language technology and am interested in expanding Arabic Wikipedia by Machine Translation. (Mel notes: Ben's questions to Sebastian and myself over lunch centered around community dynamics - they're machine-translation researchers asking "how can our work with language engines be useful towards building an Arabic Wikipedia community?" He and his team can automatically create Arabic Wikipedia pages from English ones, and vice versa, and automatically analyze the quality of a translation, but he doesn't have Wikipedia or open source community experience to figure out how to make this work useful to the relevant communities. If you can help him get started, let him know.) Affan Syed (affan.syed at nu.edu.pk): I am an Assistant Professor in the EE department at FAST-NUCES (Islamabad Campus http://www.nu.edu.pk/Isbcamp.aspx.) <http://www.nu.edu.pk/Isbcamp.aspx.%29>. I wlll be teaching courses on Embedded Systems and Distributed Computing in SP 2011. I am looking at Eucalyptus and similar open source projects as a *possibility* to get my students to work with (but unlikely that they will go beyond getting it deployed) for a FA2011 course on cloud and mobile computing. But I am open to other options for my above courses. (Mel notes: if you're working on cloud and interested in academic collaborators, get in touch with Affan - he's said everything else I would have written to introduce him already. :-) We've also been working with Bilal Zafar from USC who teaches more towards the hardware side of things and is interested in what's going on with teaching open hardware platforms (beagleboard, arduino, etc), so email bzafar at usc.edu if you're interested in talking with a professor about that. _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
