[TOS] Summer efforts

[Mel Chua]

> way the team is prepped and maybe one or more "ambassdors" within the
> team who speak standard English and willing to serve as point people
> to handle tne basic noob questions and route questions that need
> expertise to the experts in the teams could go a long way to
> scaffolding the students and the profs.

Personally, one of the things I found *most* useful in working with 
Matt's class at Allegheny in the past month was that Matt and Darren 
were able to handle the basic newbie questions themselves, in the 
classroom (very basic stuff like wiki/IRC usage, VM setup, etc).

These are the sorts of questions that all professors should be able to 
answer after they've been through POSSE, in terms of general "how to 
participate in FOSS" skills. That way, community members not from the 
school will be able to spend their time answering newbie questions 
specific to the project.

Matt also made *the* most gorgeous VM setup screencast ever - how to 
build good scaffolding for novices is something open source communities 
will need to learn more, if we hope to scale and be able to bring more 
classes in.

--Mel