[TOS] Expect Traffic

[Matt Jadud]

Hi Alyce,

Just a quick thought or two. (Or three.)

1. There seems to be a maker space down in Goshen that might be close
enough to visit sometime and build some connections:
http://makerspaces.meetup.com/cities/us/mi/kalamazoo/.

2. Ohio Linux Fest is a big event, and happens every year. Last year,
someone from Lansing came down and gave a talk---you might connect up with
them and see about opportunities for "local" outreach.
http://www.ohiolinux.org/speakers.html#MONITOR

3. There is a Kalamazoo Linux group... they look small, but you could plug
some students in and it would probably liven things up.

Those are a few quick thoughts. And I can't remember if there is anything
specifically FOSS at SIGCSE, but one could simply declare a meetup on the
mailing list. (I won't be at SIGCSE this year, I don't think. We have
family growth events that fall too near the conference for me to go away.)

Cheers,
Matt


On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Alyce Brady <alyce.brady at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> ______________________________________________________
> 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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