Hi Folks, I am excited to announce that the National Science Foundation has funded the most recent proposal created by the HFOSS team. Titled "Broadening Participation through Authentic, Collaborative Engagement with Computing for the Greater Good", we're calling the project OpenPace (Participation via Authentic, Collaborative Engagement) for short. The grant is for $1,965,000 over 5 years.
The project has five participating institutions: Drexel (Greg Hislop, Wes Shumar), Dickinson (Grant Braught), Nassau Community College (Darci Burdge, Lori Postner), Western New England University (Heidi Ellis, Stoney Jackson), and Worcester State University (Karl Wurst). There are five additional team members at a variety of other institutions: Steven Huss-Lederman, Open Energy Dashboard; Clif Kussmaul, Green Mango; Cam Macdonell, MacEwan University; Allen Tucker, Non-Profit FOSS Institute; and Wes Turner, Rensselaer Center for Open Source. The project will focus on providing an easier on-ramp for faculty teaching FOSS in the form of HFOSS Kits and Instructor-Led Projects. It also focuses on using HFOSS to attract women and other underrepresented groups to study computing. In NSF-speak this is known as Broadening Participation in Computing or BPC. And yes, there is some funding for workshops so stay tuned for announcements when we can all travel again. Heidi _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/
