[TOS] Looking to participate in a POSSE this summer

[Mel Chua]

On 02/11/2010 11:09 AM, Karl R. Wurst wrote:
> My name is Karl Wurst and I'm a CS professor at Worcester State College
> in Massachusetts. I would like to be a participant in a POSSE this summer.

Hi, Karl! Thanks for your ping, and sorry it's taken so long to get you 
a reply.

> I am teaching our capstone projects course in the Fall, and rather than
> having student teams design and build a small project from scratch, I
> would like to get them to participate in an Open Source project. I
> attended the SoftHum workshop at Drexel last summer, and wanted to have
> my students last Fall participate in Open Source projects, but did not
> feel that I understood the process well enough myself to guide the
> students. I need to actually participate in a project to become
> comfortable with the process, before I can feel comfortable requiring
> the students to participate.

Sounds like you're a *perfect* candidate for POSSE, then! We'd love to 
have you at one this summer.

> I would very much like to participate in a POSSE this summer to get that
>   immersion experience, so that I can do it with my students in the Fall.
> What POSSEs are being planned, and who do I contact to apply to participate.

We're still in the process of figuring out what POSSEs are going to 
happen this summer, so expect a flurry of activity on this list between 
now and March 1st as you watch all of us figuring that out - right now 
we've got one announced, which is the POSSE at RIT (about a 5-6 hour 
drive from you, if memory serves) from June 14-18. That's got a CS focus 
and would be the sort of thing you're looking for. Attending POSSE is 
free, but attendees are generally responsible for their own travel, 
lodging, and food expenses.

If you think other professors from your school - or from the area - 
would be interested, and want to host a POSSE this summer so you don't 
have to travel so far - if you've got the ability to let a bunch of 
professors and a few instructors hang out in a room with wifi for a 
week, and we can figure out how to get POSSE instructors out to you, and 
we can settle all that before March 1st, we could very well get a POSSE 
going in Worcester sometime this summer.

--Mel