[TOS] POSSCON Talk (was: Re: FOSS as a study abroad experience)

[Allen Tucker]

Hi Leslie and Mel,

I'm lurking in the shadows :-)  I'll be speaking about the HFOSS project in the education track at POSSCON.  

Best,
Allen

On Feb 7, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Mel Chua wrote:

>> I have been invited to speak at POSSCON (http://posscon.org/) about the
>> student experience in open source and would like to partially employ
>> this metaphor (with a tip of the hat to you, Sebastian and POSSEs) in my
>> presentation.
> 
> Sure thing! Borrow away.
> 
> We're actually speaking at POSSCON's education track as well 
> (Sebastian's remote, I'll be there in person) so if you want to catch up 
> before we both speak and make sure we're complementing and amplifying 
> each others' points and not being redundant, that might not be a bad idea.
> 
>> If there's funds for sponsorship of a TOS lunch at POSSCON, I'd be happy
>> to put one together. I saw in a previous thread that managing grants for
>> TOS has been cumbersome, so not sure if this funding is still on the table.
> 
> There is. Anyone else from here coming to POSSCON? Right now I count 
> just myself and Leslie and Bryan, but there may be more lurking in the 
> shadows.
> 
> I wonder if it might be worth starting to keep track of "TOS talks" - 
> papers and videos and slides and whatnot that folks here give about the 
> teaching of open source - to give newcomers/outsiders a flavor of what 
> we do, and where it's listened-to.
> 
> --Mel
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