[TOS] OSCON 2010: Writing sprint for "lives of teachers" seems odd?

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Matt,

I would think that the topic still makes a lot of sense,
but I agree with you in that the format of a writing sprint
is probably not a good fit for the people that will be
attending the event at OSCON.

It probably should be a presentation.

The advantage of presenting this topic is that it brings a
very pragmatic perspective on how the rewards systems
of educational institutions work, and how we should take
that into account in order to make FOSS courses widespread.

During many of the other presentations we are asking
practitioners : "how do you think that we can do this better ?",
in this talk we can share with them the constraints that
drive the activities of educators.

The point is that there are many activities that may look
very appealing from the point of view of FOSS practitioners,
but that may not fly in to environment of an educational
institution. This talk may help conciliate these two worlds.


---

Adding another proposal to present tools for using
the Arduino sounds like an excellent idea.


   My 2 cents,


       Luis


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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Matthew Jadud <mjadud at allegheny.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been thinking hard about this possible topic:
>
> http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/OSCON_2010#The_lives_of_teachers_and_how_to_engage_them
>
> I've sketched some ideas, but ultimately it seems like the wrong
> context for a writing sprint. That is, the majority of the tracks at
> OSCON2009 were not offered by educators; it seems to be a
> by-practitioners-for-practitioners conference. While the topic might
> make a good presentation/talk, I'm not sure it will make a good
> writing sprint, as the people most likely to help drive the writing
> wouldn't be there. This could make a good sprint for a conference like
> SIGCSE, though.
>
> That said, I've put together a set of proposals regarding parallel
> programming on the Arduino. We're nearing release of our tools and
> text (http://concurrency.cc/), or have partially released, or students
> will be using our software and text a week from now, so I guess we
> already have released... so it seemed like we had a good opportunity
> to submit a paired talk and workshop. I can tag it Education, and link
> it against the TOS track, or submit to "Emerging Trends" and
> "Programming Languages," which is where I think we fit best.
>
> Thoughts from the TOS-OSCON organizing committee? (I don't have the
> proposals themselves online yet, or I'd point to them. It's been a
> busy weekend.)
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
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