[TOS] POSSE meeting minutes 2010-04-20
Mel Chua
mel at redhat.com
Wed Apr 21 12:07:44 UTC 2010
Logs at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource/2010-04-20/teachingopensource.2010-04-20-19.00.html
(also at
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_program_design#Minutes).
Meeting summary
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* roll call (mchua, 19:00:37)
* this summer's POSSEs (mchua, 19:01:04)
* POSSE Worcester and RIT continue to gather attendees, all set with
logistics (mchua, 19:01:21)
* POSSE RIT instructors/curriculum set, Fedora (mchua, 19:01:32)
* POSSE Worcester instructors set, curriculum being adapted to Sugar
Labs (mchua, 19:01:43)
* POSSE California will have a date, location, and begin recruiting by
this Friday (mchua, 19:01:56)
* POSSE CMU needs 1 more instructor and 4 more students to run
(mchua, 19:02:17)
* we are under budget for every POSSE this summer thus far (mchua,
19:02:35)
* upcoming POSSEs (mchua, 19:02:44)
* Have not heard updates from South Africa, Malaysia, Philippines,
EMEA, Design; potential interest for Carolina, China (mchua,
19:03:36)
* POSSE program design (mchua, 19:03:53)
* end-of-semester rush has delayed work on IRB for measuring
effectiveness this summer (mchua, 19:04:14)
* we're learning a lot about how to structure the program to make it
scaleable/reproducible; expect a v.2.0 "howto plan a POSSE" once
details for CMU and California have been settled (mchua, 19:05:07)
* POSSEs outside NA likely to run in fall/winter of this year (mchua,
19:05:21)
* POSSE planning for summer 2010 to start a month from now; if you
have ideas for locations, start thinking about them. (mchua,
19:05:43)
* goal: have POSSE be a program that can be run by rotating groups of
faculty, like other periodic workshops/conferences in academia, by
2012 (mchua, 19:06:18)
* POSSE South Africa is looking for a second instructor, October 3-8,
2010; must be a professor and a POSSE alumni (can be one of this
summer's alumni). (mchua, 19:13:37)
* LINK:
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_2009#Topic_Schedule
(mchua, 19:16:44)
* IDEA: POSSE South Africa co-taught by micadeyeye and mchua in
October, focus on Mozilla development using Fedora as a dev platform
- tentative and dependent on whether we can come up with a
curriculum. (mchua, 19:18:42)
* POSSE South Africa go/no-go date is June 1st, 2010 (mchua,
19:21:07)
* Needed to make POSSE South Africa a GO: location (done), instructors
(done), tech guru, at least 5 students, curriculum, funding secured,
draft of logistics (mchua, 19:21:37)
* ACTION: micadeyeye do a first draft of POSSE SA (Mozilla)
curriculum, send to TOS list (mchua, 19:22:47)
Meeting ended at 19:31:53 UTC.
Action Items
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* micadeyeye do a first draft of POSSE SA (Mozilla) curriculum, send to
TOS list
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