[TOS] Additional NSF Funding for HFOSS!

[Heidi Ellis]

Hi Folks,

I am excited to announce that the National Science Foundation has funded
the most recent proposal created by the HFOSS team.  Titled "Broadening
Participation through Authentic, Collaborative Engagement with Computing
for the Greater Good", we're calling the project OpenPace (Participation
via Authentic, Collaborative Engagement) for short. The grant is for
$1,965,000 over 5 years.

The project has five participating institutions: Drexel (Greg Hislop,
Wes Shumar), Dickinson (Grant Braught), Nassau Community College (Darci
Burdge, Lori Postner), Western New England University (Heidi Ellis,
Stoney Jackson), and Worcester State University (Karl Wurst).  There are
five additional team members at a variety of other institutions: Steven
Huss-Lederman, Open Energy Dashboard; Clif Kussmaul, Green Mango;  Cam
Macdonell, MacEwan University; Allen Tucker, Non-Profit FOSS Institute;
and Wes Turner, Rensselaer Center for Open Source.

The project will focus on providing an easier on-ramp for faculty
teaching FOSS in the form of HFOSS Kits and Instructor-Led Projects. It
also focuses on using HFOSS to attract women and other underrepresented
groups to study computing. In NSF-speak this is known as Broadening
Participation in Computing or BPC. And yes, there is some funding for
workshops so stay tuned for announcements when we can all travel again.

Heidi