[TOS] POSSE California 2010 cancelled

[Karsten Wade]

Earlier today I sent the below email to POSSE California applicants.
Mel and I both felt we got too late of a start ourselves on generating
publicity.  By the time people were getting the word about this POSSE,
many were already done with their summer planning.

In the end, we didn't get nearly 50% of the sufficient applications to
have this POSSE, so we had to cancel.

----- Forwarded message from Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> -----

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:35:56 -0700
From: Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>
To: Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>, Mel Chua <mel at redhat.com>,
	Alolita Sharma <alolita.sharma at gmail.com>
Subject: POSSE California 2010 cancelled

Thank you for your interest in attending POSSE in Northern California
this summer 2010.

Unfortunately, we have made the hard decision to cancel this event.
We were not able to get enough attendees to hold the event.  

Over this past year we have learned that academic calendars and
planning move on a different timescale than we were operating on, and
our planning and invitations arrived too late for many people to have
a chance to attend.

Thus we are planning POSSE in Northern California for 2011.  We
haven't picked a specific date yet, sometime in June after classes are
done?  Your input is very welcome.

We really appreciate your interest.  We'll get word to you about POSSE
in 2011 as soon as possible.  You may also want to join our Teaching
Open Source community mailing list to keep track of all of these
discussions, events, and practices:

http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/TeachingOpenSource_Mailing_List

A few of our instructors will be contacting each of you individually,
by region, to see if we can be of any immediate help with you around
teaching open source and POSSE-related activities.  For example, if
you can make some time this summer to sit down one-to-one for a day,
we can take you through some of the same learning and information that
you get in a full-blown POSSE.

Thanks,

- POSSE California 2010 Instructor team
-- 
name:  Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener
team:                Red Hat Community Architecture 
uri:               http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki
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name:  Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener
team:                Red Hat Community Architecture 
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