On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 03:29:59AM -0500, Mel Chua wrote: >> - We should try to decide fairly quickly if we want to do it. There's a >> funding opportunity here at USC and the deadline for it is in late Jan. >> Not sure what exactly the funding picture for past POSSEs has been but >> I'm sure it won't hurt if we get a few grands to do this at 'SC. >> >> - I think USC would be a good venue because of its central location in >> Southern California. Faculty from USC, UCLA (yes, we let them Bruins in >> sometimes!), and Caltech are obvious candidates (USC is geographically >> in the middle). But, there are also some great professors at smaller >> engineering colleges (like Harvey Mudd) within driving distance from USC. >> >> If we decide to go ahead with the plan to host one here and apply for >> this funding, we'll obviously have to work on the marketing package too. >> Is there anyone from SoCal already involved with TOS? > > This might actually be an *excellent* opportunity to tie together a > number of loose threads - Karsten (in Santa Cruz) knows many of the TOS > folks in the area, though I'm not sure how much bandwidth he has to pick > up on this right now. But he is planning an education-related presence > at SCaLE, so perhaps this would be a good focal point for it.
Right, we'll want some more local folks for some of the roles, depending on what each of us can do. For SCALE 9x, I am currently planning some POSSE and Teaching Open Source-related activities that would be perfect to invite folks from USC etc. to attend and learn more about POSSE, maybe even get some shortened but full experience. Currently the plans look like (subject to change): * Friday - POSSE Info session & 3-hour POSSE workshop -- Participation portion includes hands-on with an OLPC and testing Sugar activities. * Saturday - POSSE Info session within Open Source Software in Education (OSSIE) event, 3-hour POSSE workshop -- Participation portion includes hands-on with an OLPC and testing Sugar activities. * Sunday - POSSE Info session & 3-hour POSSE workshop -- Participation portion includes hands-on with an OLPC and testing Sugar activities. Details here are updated with these ideas: http://www.teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_workshop_SCALE9x - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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