[TOS] Proposing "Education" Track for OSCON 2010

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Matthew Jadud wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 17:25, Mel Chua <mel at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Comments?
>
> I added a possible second writing sprint topic (which I would be happy
> to dive into/collab on), which is essentially the flip of what was
> already listed as a possible sprint topic. Reproduced below.

Ooo, I like this one a lot.

--g

> Cheers,
> Matt
>
> [PASTE]
>
> Write a primer for companies and FOSS
> developers/evangelists/participants about the lifecycle of faculty at
> the secondary and tertiary levels and how to engage in productive
> collaboration for both parties. For example, how are
> middle/high-school teachers (in a typical public school setting in the
> USA) hired, how do they keep their jobs, what curricula must they
> teach, etc? Likewise, at the tertiary level (community college,
> teaching-centric institutions, research-centric institutions) what
> does the hiring and subsequent tenure process look like? What
> curricula/accrediting bodies rule in these environments? Provides
> context for recommendations for how to engage/collaborate with faculty
> in the space of FOSS? (Perhaps not useful? Might be a red herring?)
> [END PASTE]
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