[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
---------------
* 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
------------
* micadeyeye do a first draft of POSSE SA (Mozilla) curriculum, send to
   TOS list



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