(Copying the Teaching Open Source list on this as a first heads-up, but I'd like to have the discussion on https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-edu-authors if possible so we don't swamp everyone on TOS with journalism-coordination-details.)
SIGCSE is coming up! And we're going to hit it big - lots of TOS (http://teachingopensource.org) activities there - and so I'd like to get a flood - nay, a tsunami, a malestroom - of content coming out of it - stories that tell people who we are, what we do, and why we care so much about it. Now, I know people will be blogging on their personal blogs, writing to the TOS list, and so forth - but I'd like to funnel all these sources towards http://opensource.com/education as The Place where We Do SIGCSE Coverage of TOS. Why opensource.com? We've got tons of editorial and artwork (and even video-editing, if we come back with footage!) help there, plus everything that's posted on opensource.com is creative commons. It's therefore both (1) snazzy-looking and (2) re-purpose-able for anything else we'd like - campus newspapers, supplements to press releases for local journalists when everyone goes back home, sending back to the presenters and SIGCSE folk (journalism is a reeeeeally good networking excuse), and so forth. Matt Jadud, Mihaela Sabin, and Grant Hearn are going to be doing a bunch of coverage of the event as part of their Teaching Open Source travel grant to the event (thanks folks!), and we've got a number of prior opensource.com authors (myself, Steve Jacobs, Sebastian Dziallas, Heidi Ellis, and likely others I may be missing here) from the TOS community - if you're not already an author but would like to help cover something at SIGCSE, let Mary Bitter (mbitter at redhat dot com) know so she can help you get set up beforehand. Each article should only take 1-2 hours of work tops (unless you really want to spend more time, which is cool); if you read the stuff already up there, it's by and large short and sweet. Not formal like an academic paper - much more fun to write. :) I'd like to aim for a minimum of 6 SIGCSE-related articles, including pre-and-post conference posts. (Actually, I'd like to double that if possible - 6 is a bare minimum we should really be able to blow out of the water.) Some ideas are below. Thoughts? Matt, Mihaela, and Grant, do you have any preferences or other ideas of what you'd like to write? * Pre-conference post: lay of the land - what's SIGCSE, what's it like, and what are cool events (not just TOS ones) that people might be interested in? For instance, Max just pointed out IBM's "Can Students Really Develop Software Collaboratively?" session at http://www.sigcse.org/sigcse2011/attendees/supporter_sessions.php. (I could take this one, but think it could be better-written by someone who's been to SIGCSE before - Matt, Mihaela, interested?) * One article per keynote. (Any takers?) ** Matthias Felleisen - "TeachScheme!" (Matt, this might be up your alley, it's on programming languages.) ** Susan Landau - "A Computer Scientist Goes to Washington: How to be Effective in a World Where Facts are 10% of the Equation" (I'll do this one unless someone else really wants it.) ** Luis Von Ahn, "Three Human Computation Projects" * Session coverage - which sessions would you like to see liveblogged? (Grant, maybe there are some mobile dev things you'd like to cover here?) Schedule at http://db.grinnell.edu/sigcse/sigcse2011/Program/Program.asp. A few potentials: ** Mihaela Sabin: "A Neglected Pipeline? How Faculty Teach, Advise, and Mentor Transfer Students" birds of a feather ** Matt Jadud, Heidi Ellis, Greg Hislop, and Mel Chua: "Learning through Open Source Participation" panel ** Sebastian Dziallas, Heidi Ellis, and Mel Chua: "Teaching Open Source" birds of a feather ** Victor Larios, Kelvin Sung: "Open Source and Freeware Tools for 3D Game Development Courses" workshop (Steve Jacobs, sounds potentially up your alley.) ** Michael Rivera: "Designing Open Source Labs for Distance Education" birds of a feather Are you presenting, and would like your session covered? Maybe you can swap with another presenter and each write articles about each others' sessions. Holler in this thread. * Faculty interviews: professors doing cool things with their classes + open source tell their stories. One article per prof (or group of collaborating profs.) I'd love to capture as many of these as possible (also also, excuses for networking!) - in terms of format, see http://opensource.com/business/10/3/five-questions-about-building-community-chris-blizzard-mozilla for inspiration. I have a sound recorder available for borrowing for folks who want to do their interviews in audio and then transcribe. Who should we talk with? (See http://db.grinnell.edu/sigcse/sigcse2011/Program/programByAuthorsLeaders.asp for a list of presenters.) We can post some of these during the conference itself, and save a bunch for posting afterwards as follow-up in the next few months. (Matt, I think you were particularly keen on this - want to head up the interview brigade?) * Also consider the HFOSS symposium and keynotes http://www.hfoss.org/hfoss2011/ (Trishan, Cat, folks from OSU, Stormy, Ralph - do you want some coverage here? What would you like to write? Mihaela, I know you were presenting something at HFOSS... would you like to take charge of HFOSS coverage?) * other ideas? * Post-conference round-up: a week or so after SIGCSE ends, a metapost linking to and summarizing all the current SIGCSE posts to date, and any cool next-projects coming from it. (This is an easy one for a remotee - if you wished you were coming to SIGCSE but can't make it this year, this would be a way to integrate yourself into the conference happenings from afar.) --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
