[TOS] If you're thinking about a Summer 2010 POSSE...

[Mel Chua]

If you're thinking about planning a POSSE of your own, tell the mailing 
list 
(http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE#Organize_your_own_POSSE) 
so we can help you make a decision in the next month or two.

I know there are some other folks out there with interest coming down 
the pipeline. If we get multiple POSSE planning batches underway, we 
might just want to do one Summer POSSE Planning series of meetings 
back-to-back in the interests of saving time.

We'll need to figure out some deadline soon for when Summer 2010 POSSEs 
need to be announced by, so we have enough time to plan, because showing 
up in August and saying "I'd like to have a POSSE in 2 weeks!" won't 
work right now; these things currently take a couple months to get in 
order. (It gets easier and faster each time, but we're still at this 
stage of the program.)

I'm thinking about Feb 15 as the "yes, we will commit to doing this" 
cutoff for Summer 2010 POSSEs, which I'm tentatively defining as POSSEs 
that run between May 15 and September 30 of 2010. If folks want to run 
one after that date, we'll worry about that later; if folks want to run 
one before that date, we need to know RIGHT NOW.

Thoughts on those deadlines? If there are no objections, I'll take 
silence as consent after the weekend (end of next Tuesday, to give 
people at least one full weekday to read). I know it's the holidays 
coming up, but I want to hit the ground running on this as soon as we 
get back. (And if I remember my college days correctly, winter break was 
time to catch up on research and reading and learning random things and 
sleep and side projects in open source, anyway. ;)

--Mel