[TOS] POSSE California 2010 cancelled

Jeff Osier-Mixon jefro at jefro.net
Wed Jun 16 03:26:02 UTC 2010


I'm sorry to hear this, but it sure wasn't because you guys didn't make a go
of it.  Hopefully all your hard work and network-building will mean big
attendance in 2011.


2010/6/15 Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com>

> 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
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>
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> --
> name:  Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener
> team:                Red Hat Community Architecture
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