[TOS] POSSE meeting minutes 2010-04-13

[Mel Chua]

http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource/2010-04-13/posse_meeting.2010-04-13-19.07.html


Meeting summary
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* This summer's POSSEs - admissions count  (mchua, 19:08:23)
   * We currently have 5 (our minimum size) for POSSE Worcester  (mchua,
     19:08:36)
   * We currently have 9 (maximum 25) for POSSE RIT, but none from
     non-RIT institutions yet, so need to recruit more there  (mchua,
     19:09:04)
   * We have interest but no hard confirmations for POSSE CA and POSSE
     CMU; need to step that up  (mchua, 19:09:30)

* POSSE budget  (mchua, 19:10:23)
   * LINK:
 
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_Worcester_State_planning#Budget
     (mchua, 19:11:18)
   * kwurst did POSSE Worcester recruitent by looking up email addresses
     of faculty for all schools within ~45m drive, opening to 1hr.
     (mchua, 19:15:02)
   * kwurst emailed the faculty directly, one email per institution, sent
     to the faculty directly.  (kwurst, 19:15:51)
   * kwurst emailed faculty directly, rather than Department Chair,
     because sometimes chairs forget to forward these emails.  (kwurst,
     19:16:35)
   * kwurst sent one email per institution, so recipients could see email
     addresses and determine if I had missed anyone at their school
     (kwurst, 19:17:28)

* Future POSSEs  (mchua, 19:25:19)

* Discussion: evaluations  (mchua, 19:35:49)
   * We're doing a minimal IRB process for each of the 4 campuses with
     POSSEs this summer; the professors working on that will have some
     news next week  (mchua, 19:36:22)

* Discussion: the future of POSSE  (mchua, 19:36:50)
   * IDEA: Have the POSSE program itself run by faculty members - it's
     similar to conference organization, and it may be possible to get
     sponsorship for a course release in order to have the time to do
     this.  (mchua, 19:37:38)
   * ACTION: mchua move POSSE-run-by-profs idea to the list  (mchua,
     20:00:35)