[TOS] Additional NSF Funding for HFOSS!

Bryan G. Behrenshausen bbehrens at redhat.com
Thu Oct 8 18:02:18 UTC 2020


Congratulations to everyone working on this grant. I know you've been
at it for quite some time. So well deserved. Can't wait to see all the
good you're able to do!

On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 00:15 +0000, Heidi Ellis 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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