[TOS] OSCON CFP open through 2/7 - with education track!

[Mel Chua]

On 12/16/2010 07:43 PM, Jeff Osier-Mixon wrote:
> Looks like our efforts last year were successful - OSCON now has an
> education track. Here is the CFP:
>
> http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/cfp/144

Note that the deadline is 11:59pm 02/07/2011 PST, so this gives us 
nearly two months to get a lot of awesomeness together. Notification is 
"early March 2011," and based on last year, this actually means 
"probably before April 1st, with what seems like a rolling process."

I started an events page at 
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/OSCON_2011 and linked to it from 
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Conferences#Upcoming_events.

This year's events page refers back to a lot of OSCON 2010 stuff - 
samples and templates from 
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/OSCON_2010 and links to accepted 
sessions from last year 
(http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/OSCON_2011#Example_TOS_Abstracts_from_OSCON_2010) 
for inspiration on writing this year's abstracts.

I've copied some bits from the page below as a teaser to encourage 
people to take a look and think about OSCON after the holiday season 
ends. :) Looking forward to seeing people there!

--Mel

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This page is rough and incomplete - it is turning into a page for 
planning our presence at [http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011 OSCON 2011]. If 
you hit this page and have questions (since the page is still rough), 
please drop the [http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos 
mailing list] a line and we'll come in and fix it (you'll be doing us a 
favor by asking questions!)

For reference, see last year's discussions on OSCON 2010 planning at 
[http://teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/2010-January/000764.html 
this mailing list thread], and the [[OSCON 2010]] results.

== BoF proposal ==

''[[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] submitted a BoF proposal that was accepted at 
last year's OSCON; there was enough follow-up interest that a second BoF 
was run spontaneously the next day (by Luis Ibanez, iirc).'' '''This 
year's BoF proposal has not yet been submitted; if you would like to do 
this, please pick it up!''' ''Last year's abstract is given below.''

<abstract>

== Education track ==

We proposed an Education Track for OSCON 2010. We didn't get it then, 
but had many presentations and this combined with advocacy for the 
current OSCON led to an Education Track running in the 2011 OSCON. Hooray!

If you have information about the education track, or ideas for it, 
please post thoughts here. We're not "in charge" of the education track, 
but there may be enough interested people from TOS who, if they get in 
touch with whoever is running the track, may be able to significantly 
shape it.

== Submissions status ==

If you submit a TOS-related talk, please track the status here so we can 
help each other through! For last year's submissions, see [[OSCON 
2010#Submissions status]]. You can put your abstracts in the 
[[#Abstracts]] section below. Useful guides we've found are listed at 
[[#How to submit proposals]].

Last year, we asked people to use the "Education" tag on their 
proposals, and to link back to the [[OSCON 2010]] page in the 
"Additional notes" section. Please do the same for this year!

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1" cellspacing="0"
! Topic/Title !! Type !! Owner !! Status
|-
| [[#Sample abstract template|Sample talk title]]
| presentation, panel, discussion, BoF, etc?
| Your name
| Submitted, Accepted, Rejected?
|-
|}

=== Example TOS Abstracts from OSCON 2010 ===

Also see http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/tag/education.

# "5 FOSS in Edu Projects that Changed the World"
## http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/14024

# "Educating the Next Generation of FOSS Developers"
## http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/13635

# "Junior Jobs and Bite-sized Bugs: Entry Points for New Contributors to 
Open Source"
## http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/14066

# "Opportunities for Students to Contribute to FOSS Projects"
## http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/13701

# "Plumbing: Parallel Programming for Artists and Makers"
## Opportunities for Students to Contribute to FOSS Projects

[[Category:OSCON 2011]]