Wow. *Thank you* for all the feedback on the wording - the last thing I want the requirements to be is exclusive, I would *love* to see POSSEs co-taught by Karsten, Karlie, high school students, university sysadmins, and other community members, so it's important to make sure that this desire to include is actually well-communicated.
Trying to fix the bugs here... > As long as the teaching team members cover all experience points this > group defines, it shouldn't matter what the division is. Agreed. How does the (much-revised) draft below look? ------- == Requirements for being a POSSE instructor == You learn how to teach a POSSE by co-teaching a POSSE with someone who's taught a POSSE before. This is how existing POSSE instructors teach new POSSE instructors, and it is the responsibility of both the experienced and the new instructor to set up whatever learning needs to happen for that apprenticeship to be successful. To be eligible to co-teach your first POSSE, you must have: * knowledge of and experience in FOSS communities * knowledge of and experience in using tools relevant to your discipline in FOSS communities (version control for developers, FOSS graphics applications for designers, IRC for everyone...) * a demonstrated ability and interest in teaching A good way to get all three is to participate in a POSSE yourself - if you haven't participated in a POSSE, we ask that you co-organize the first one you co-teach at so that you see the POSSE planning process and get the flavor of the event beforehand. After you have co-taught your first POSSE, you're a POSSE instructor, and can now team up with other current POSSE Instructors, as well as co-teaching with new instructors to train them. == Instructor requirements for hosting a POSSE == A POSSE must be taught by at least 2 instructors. A POSSE must have at least 1 instructor who has taught a POSSE before. A POSSE must have at least 1 instructor with deep community involvement in that POSSE's focal project. A POSSE should have at least 1 instructor who is teaching, or has taught, at the college level. _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
