[TOS] tos Digest, Vol 39, Issue 6

[STEPHEN JACOBS]

Haven't  forgotten.  Need to plan as if it doesn't come through and then be pleasantly surprised if it does
>  remember that we have a pending proposal with NSF that would provide support for faculty to attend POSSE's.  That's been pending since January, but standard NSF response time is stated as 6-8 months.  It's seldom less, and sometimes considerably more.  Harish is aware of this proposal.
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> Cheers,
> 
> Greg Hislop
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> From: tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of STEPHEN JACOBS
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:10 PM
> To: tos at teachingopensource.org
> Subject: [TOS] POSSE updates
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> 1. POSSE @ RIT will be working, in part,  with WebWorK's<http://webwork.maa.org/intro.html> Dev Camp in Rochester.  Some of their folks will be coming to POSSE sessions Monday and Tuesday 6/4-5.  We will offer POSSE participants the option of selecting WebWorK issues and bugs as their POSSE dev during the rest of the week. (Moksha and Pyramid being others)  We will make the Thursday night POSSE dinner a joint POSSE and WeBWork social event.
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> 2. Remy and I will be meeting with Michael Cunningham and Harish Pilay on 5/29 for half a day.  The topics of this meeting are those that Mel and I discussed and posted last month in terms of how to move POSSE forward to a longer tail financial calendar, a set infra structure for supporting registrations, how to fix the funding process, etc.  Remy will be taking notes and we'll post them all when we're done.
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> 3.  We have several participants this time around from the liberal arts side of the world.  One option we can offer them is to take a whack at cleaning up the POSSE pages on the TOS wiki and/or the whole thing.  Looking for your input on what you'd like and/or not like them to do here.
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> SJ
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> Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 17:32:10 -0400
> From: "Heidi Ellis" <heidijcellis at gmail.com>
> To: <tos at teachingopensource.org>
> Subject: Re: [TOS] Facilitating the Integration of Free Software into
>    Academic Courses
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> Hi Folks,
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> For those of you who may not be familiar with Joanie's work, Joanie is one of the leads on the GNOME Accessibility project that fosters FOSS accessibility solutions for GUIs. Joanie has been instrumental in helping with getting my students started in various HFOSS projects over the past two years and she came down and spoke to my class about aspects of visual impairment this past fall. In addition, I have observed Joanie manage her team via IRC meetings (on and off as my schedule permits) and she does a great job with directing and encouraging the team. I think she'll make a super GNOME Foundation Board member! 
> 
> Heidi
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joanmarie Diggs [mailto:jdiggs at igalia.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:02 PM
> To: tos at teachingopensource.org; Heidi Ellis
> Subject: Facilitating the Integration of Free Software into Academic Courses
> 
> Hey all.
> 
> Back in October I met with several professors and also Sebastian and as a result of that had an idea. And I was psyched about it. And I was going to go home and blog about it and share it with y'all. But life and work just kept happening.
> 
> Yadda, yadda, yadda, in response to Richard Stallman's question for candidates for the GNOME Foundation Board, I suddenly found myself writing the long-promised document. Apologies to those who knew about my promise and had to wait so long for me to deliver. :-/
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> It is here for your consideration:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2012-May/msg00034.html
> 
> Take care.
> --joanie
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