Congratulations and so looking forward to the workshops in-person!!! On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 8:16 PM Heidi Ellis <heidi.el...@wne.edu> wrote:
> 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/ >
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