[TOS] Good news! Grant awarded!

[Gregory Hislop]

Hi,

Short answers: yes, yes, and yes.

Details:

There are several websites from prior NSF projects (see http://xcitegroup.org/projects.html  SoftHum and HumIT).  We'd actually like to consolidate sites.  We would also like to use this project to advance teachingopensource.org.  We think that TOS is the best general gathering place we have and we want to support this community.

We expect workshops in multiple locations, but given federal grant rules, only within the U.S.  Most of the workshops will be based on the POSSE effort, but with NSF funds available to cover costs for the attendees (only U.S based faculty, again due to federal funding rules).  We also expect to run some short events associated with computing education gatherings like SIGCSE.

Finally, preparing teaching/learning materials (with open content license of course) will be the another key activity.  

Cheers,

Greg Hislop

-----Original Message-----
From: tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-bounces at teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of Don Davis
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 9:25 AM
To: tos at teachingopensource.org
Subject: Re: [TOS] Good news! Grant awarded!

Excellent. Will you have a website?
Will any of these be traveling workshops?
Will you be preparing curricula?




>     On 09/10/2012 06:20 PM, Heidi Ellis wrote:
>     > Hi Folks,
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > We have some good news! As some of you know, Greg Hislop and Sean
>     Goggins
>     > from Drexel, Heidi Ellis and Stoney Jackson from Western New England
>     > University, and Darci Burge and Lori Postner from Nassau Community
>     College
>     > submitted an NSF TUES Type 2 proposal back in January. We have
>     just learned
>     > that the proposal, titled "OpenFE: Developing Faculty Expertise
>     and Creating
>     > Learning Materials for Humanitarian Free and Open Source
>     Software,"  has
>     > been awarded!
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > So why are we telling you? Because the proposal aims to enhance
>     TOS as part
>     > of the effort, as well as build on POSSE. The grant runs from
>     September
>     > 15th, 2012 through August 31st, 2014 and has a main focus on
>     getting faculty
>     > members up to speed on FOSS tools and culture so that they can support
>     > student participation in FOSS. In particular, the grant provides
>     funding to
>     > get faculty members to workshops, including POSSE. Simultaneous
>     efforts
>     > include building the community of FOSS teachers and
>     representatives,  and
>     > developing course materials.  We anticipate that many of you will be
>     > interested in some part of this effort and we look forward to
>     collaborating
>     > with you as we go forward.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > We are just starting this effort and we will keep you apprised as we
>     > undertake the grant activities.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > The OpenFE Team:
>     >
>     > Heidi Ellis (Western New England University)
>     >
>     > Greg Hislop (Drexel University)
>     >
>     > Lori Postner (Nassau Community College)
>     >
>     > Darci Burge  (Nassau Community College)
>     >
>     > Stoney Jackson  (Western New England University)
>     >
>     > Sean Goggins (Drexel University)
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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