[TOS] Summer '10 POSSEs status

[Karl R. Wurst]

Mel,

Good news, the room is reserved for POSSE Worcester State College for
June 7-11, 2010.

One question - in reading the HOWTO, it says we need computers for the
students. Is that true? I was expecting that they will bring laptops.
Let me know if I need to change to a room with computers.

On 2/26/10 4:01 AM, Mel Chua wrote:
> Where we stand right now:
> 
>      * POSSE RIT
> 
> All set. Huge interest from RIT faculty based on last week's visit - I'm 
> looking forward to this one.
> 
>      * POSSE California CS
>      * POSSE California Design
> 
> Blocking on confirmation of location/date; if we have that, the CS one 
> will be good to go. I'll ping Alolita on this. The Design one also 
> depends on Mo being available.
> 
>      * POSSE EMEA 2010 - sometime early summer 2010
> 
> Maybe. Both groups (Jan/Bert, Sebastian/Felix) proposed Germany as a 
> location, so we literally just need to get everyone in the same room to 
> figure out which one we're going to go for (if we go for it). Can EMEA 
> groups find me on #teachingopensource at some point in the next few days?
> 
>      * A design-centered POSSE in the Boston area
> 
> Waiting to hear from Mo on potential instructor status - she's overseas 
> at a hackfest at the moment.
> 
>      * POSSE Manila 2010 in early summer 2010
> 
> Caught Herson briefly during office hours today; one proposal floated 
> was aiming for an actual POSSE in October to give us more time and 
> breathing room to make it truly awesome, and using the Bluepoint/APC 
> workshop this summer (which wouldn't be a POSSE, but could use some of 
> the material for it) as a place to try out some things as preparation 
> for that. Herson is running that idea by the other folks from Manila, 
> and we'll check in on IRC again tomorrow.
> 
>      * A POSSE in the Pittsburgh area (CMU/Allegheny)
> 
> Still need to get in touch with people about this. Matt, Greg Kesden - 
> still interested?
> 
>      * POSSE Worcester State - June 7-11, 2010 at Worcester State 
> College, Worcester, MA
> 
> Looking absolutely beautiful - thank you, Karl! See 
> http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_Worcester_State for (stub) 
> status and 
> http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Talk:POSSE_Worcester_State for 
> log. Next steps: Karl confirming location, Mel finding instructors, 
> funding situation.
> 
>      * POSSE South Africa
> 
> Almost certainly "not this summer" at this point, but I want to keep 
> this on our radar, because Michael is awesome and I'd love to have a 
> POSSE to help build local support for TOS, if he thinks it would help.
> 
> --Mel
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 --- Karl
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