Dear Computing Educator, We invite you to submit a short position statement (1-2 pages) or poster abstract (up to 2 pages) to the 2nd annual HFOSS Symposium (HFOSS 2010) on "Growing the HFOSS Community." November 9th, just over a week away, is the deadline for submissions.
This one-day symposium will be held in Milwaukee, WI on March, 10th, 2010 as a pre-conference activity in conjunction with the 2010 SIGCSE conference (http://www.sigcse.org/sigcse2010/ ). It is sponsored by the NSF-funded Humanitarian FOSS Project (http://hfoss.org). This year's symposium focuses on how to expand participation in the Humanitarian FOSS movement so that it reaches many more students, colleges, secondary schools, and software industry representatives throughout the nation. The symposium is designed to be highly interactive, taking place entirely in plenary session. It will be keynoted by Hal Abelson, Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, founding director of Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, and the Free Software Foundation. The symposium will feature invited speakers from industry and academia, an open-ended round-table discussion, and a panel of CS curriculum experts. The symposium deadlines are as follows: November 9, 2009 - Poster abstracts and position statements due December 14, 2009 - Author acceptance/rejection notification January 15, 2010 - Invited participants registration deadline February 5, 2010 - Final (open) registration deadline Complete CFP details are available at http://www.hfoss.org/hfoss2010/?q=node/5 For additional details about the symposium, please visit our web site at http://www.hfoss.org/hfoss2010 Best regards, Ralph Morelli Professor of Computer Science, Trinity College, Hartford H-FOSS Symposium'10 Chair [email protected]
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