[TOS] Additional NSF Funding for HFOSS!

Cat Allman cat.allman at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 00:03:40 UTC 2020


Wonderful news!  Congratulations!

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 4:01 PM Olga Glebova <glebovaov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations and so looking forward to the workshops in-person!!!
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 8:16 PM Heidi Ellis <heidi.ellis at wne.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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