[TOS] TOS/POSSE at Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) 9x

[Karsten Wade]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:01:58PM -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
> I want to do some stuff ... TOS stuff and POSSE stuff ... at SCALE
> 9x[1] and stuff, which is 25 to 27 February at the Hilton Los Angeles
> Airport.

In the last few days I've had some discussions with the SCALE folks
and also the folks organizing/participating in the Open Source
Software in Education (OSSIE) session.  The OSSIE session was
previously held on Friday, but they moved it to Saturday this year to
accommodate instructor attendance.

That is great news for OSSIE, and solves my concern about Friday being
a potential dead zone for anything we do within OSSIE.

I'm not sure how that fits with TOS and the POSSE ideas.  For example,
I see a POSSE info session as being a perfect 1 hour fit within
OSSIE.  But OSSIE has traditionally been more focused on using open
source than participating, if I read my history correctly.

In teasing this out in my mind, maybe this is the right pattern:

* Saturday 1 hour talk within OSSIE on POSSE and TOS in general.

* Saturday hold two 3-hour mini-POSSE sessions, next door to OSSIE and
  leaning a bit on that press/recruiting.

* Sunday could be repeats of the 3-hour mini sessions, or a series of
  1-hour info sessions.

Another option is to get a TOS booth at the expo, and hold regularly
scheduled info sessions there.  Unless I got a bunch more help, that
would subsume my ability to do the mini-POSSEs, but would get us more
exposure on the floor to the general audience.  From an OSSIE talk we
can direct folks to to the booth for more in-depth information and
hands-on.

I'm waaay open to ideas,

- Karsten
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