[TOS] Expect Traffic

[Alyce Brady]

Mel,

Perhaps I should send this question to the TOS mailing list, but I am really just a lurker there, not a participant (so far).

I attended the workshop that you, Karl, Heidi, and several others gave last year at SIGCSE, but have not done anything further with TOS or any formal Open Source community.  I would like to change that, and it seems that going to an appropriate national or regional conference, Hackathon, or other community event would be a useful first step.  I did a quick Google search, and it seems that many of the conferences are centered around a particular technology (e.g., Linux, Python, Perl conferences, etc).  POSSCON (Palmetto OSS Conference) seems to be an exception, but do you know of others that you would suggest?  On a related note, will there be anything TOS-related at SIGCSE and/or FIE in 2013?

Also, I have a memory of Heidi, Karl, and some others in the Northeast talking about a regional event they were taking students to last spring, but can't find the reference in my email archive.  Do you know what that was, or should I ask one of them?  And, maybe more importantly, do you know of anything similar in the midwest?  (Purdue and Kalamazoo College are not all that far from each other!)

Alyce


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Alyce Brady
Professor of Computer Science
Kalamazoo College


On Oct 12, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Mel Chua <mel at PURDUE.EDU> wrote:

>> I wanted to give you a heads up because we may see an increase in
>> traffic on our site and on the list.  Just wanted you to know where at
>> least some of that traffic may be coming from and that most of these
>> folks will be newbies. I also talked to a fair number of international
>> folks including from India and Japan.
> 
> Any new people on the list now? (If so, welcome! and please introduce 
> yourselves!)
> 
> One thing we might want to have at future booths when TOS signup 
> interest is expected: a laptop open to the mailing list registration 
> page so that people can add themselves right then and there.
> 
> --Mel
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