Wonderful news! Congratulations! On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 4:01 PM Olga Glebova <glebov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/ >> > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/ >
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