[TOS] Fwd: POSSE California update

Mel Chua mel at redhat.com
Wed May 26 16:45:48 UTC 2010


Wow. A few minutes after I send this email, another application for 
POSSE California comes in. :) We may yet make it!

On 05/26/2010 12:39 PM, Mel Chua wrote:
> To keep TOS in the loop; sent to the 3 professors who are planning on
> attending POSSE California so far.
>
> The situation here is my fault, really - the POSSE California ball was
> set in motion early this calendar year, before we had a good notion of
> process in place (we've built that up as we've gone along, as the other
> POSSEs have been noticing - for instance, by the time Karl showed up
> with the idea for a Worcester POSSE, we actually had a list of things to
> go through, and I believe that went quite smoothly) - and we also had
> our original location switch out from under us at the last moment, which
> caused some last-minute scrambling and dateswitching, which has made it
> hard to find attendees - especially now at the end of the US academic year.
>
> Radical transparency is sometimes painful, but it's the only way we'll
> all collectively be able to learn. As someone from the open source
> community without a formal academic background, I've learned a *lot*
> about academic timescales in the past year, and... well, Summer 2011
> POSSEs will start their planning in about a month or so, for recruitment
> announcements to start before SIGCSE. :)
>
> We're still hoping to find 2 more attendees so we can run POSSE
> California, so if you have any
> ideas/thoughts/know-people-who'd-be-interested (professors or graduate
> students responsible for teaching classes), please let us know.
>
> --Mel
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: POSSE California update
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 12:28:46 -0400
> From: Mel Chua<mel at redhat.com>
>
>
> We wanted to keep you in the loop on POSSE California, since the date is
> rapidly approaching and we've been less transparent than we should have
> been on what's going on (my apologies). This isn't private news or a
> private discussion; we've been discussing it in the Teaching Open Source
> IRC channel (which has public logs of meetings) for several weeks now,
> but the three of you may not be on that list yet.
>
> Everything is set up, and we're all looking forward to the bootcamp -
> there's one complication, though. We haven't gotten as many attendees as
> we hoped. We need at least 5 to run a POSSE, and so far the three of you
> are the only professors who are able to attend.
>
> We're doing one last round of recruitment pings, and are making a final
> go/no-go decision on June 4th based on whether we can find an additional
> 2 professors to attend or not - so it's very close, and any
> suggestions/ideas you have on how to help with this would be quite welcome.
>
> Please let us know if you have any questions about the situation; we'll
> do our best to keep you updated as things go along (certainly on June
> 4th!) and will be planning Teaching Open Source events in the Valley
> area over the next year in any case. Worst-case scenario: we'll gear up
> for an awesome local POSSE next year.
>
> I'll send this note - minus the PS and the names - to the Teaching Open
> Source list as well, so everyone there knows what's happening.
>
> --Mel
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