On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 08:27 -0500, Karlie Robinson wrote: > By creating a shopping list of instant solutions, you're telling POSSE > participants that TOSS and the people who lead their POSSE will be > available, indefinitely, to solve their problems. Instead you should be > looking at how to successfully tell someone "Do it yourself" by creating > a situation where they are able to tap the community on their own, > outside of TOS, to have their needs met.
Karlie, I'm completely with you on this: I agree wholeheartely that we should not create sandboxes to play in, and that students should be working with real open source communities in real open source projects rather than creating their own toy projects in git instances that aren't really used by anyone else. However, we have had profs tell us that they can't get the infrastructure access they need at their schools -- some can have root on an internal server, or a server connected to the public Internet, but not both (root and an accessible IP), and some can't even get a fraction of that. So being able to provide some things such as a Planet very quickly could have value. (Of course, the other side of this is just hosting TOS.o on a higher-bandwidth link with higher availability for the wiki etc, which is also important). -Chris _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
