I'm sorry to hear this, but it sure wasn't because you guys didn't make a go of it. Hopefully all your hard work and network-building will mean big attendance in 2011.
2010/6/15 Karsten Wade <[email protected]> > Earlier today I sent the below email to POSSE California applicants. > Mel and I both felt we got too late of a start ourselves on generating > publicity. By the time people were getting the word about this POSSE, > many were already done with their summer planning. > > In the end, we didn't get nearly 50% of the sufficient applications to > have this POSSE, so we had to cancel. > > ----- Forwarded message from Karsten Wade <[email protected]> ----- > > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:35:56 -0700 > From: Karsten Wade <[email protected]> > To: Karsten Wade <[email protected]>, Mel Chua <[email protected]>, > Alolita Sharma <[email protected]> > Subject: POSSE California 2010 cancelled > > Thank you for your interest in attending POSSE in Northern California > this summer 2010. > > Unfortunately, we have made the hard decision to cancel this event. > We were not able to get enough attendees to hold the event. > > Over this past year we have learned that academic calendars and > planning move on a different timescale than we were operating on, and > our planning and invitations arrived too late for many people to have > a chance to attend. > > Thus we are planning POSSE in Northern California for 2011. We > haven't picked a specific date yet, sometime in June after classes are > done? Your input is very welcome. > > We really appreciate your interest. We'll get word to you about POSSE > in 2011 as soon as possible. You may also want to join our Teaching > Open Source community mailing list to keep track of all of these > discussions, events, and practices: > > http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/TeachingOpenSource_Mailing_List > > A few of our instructors will be contacting each of you individually, > by region, to see if we can be of any immediate help with you around > teaching open source and POSSE-related activities. For example, if > you can make some time this summer to sit down one-to-one for a day, > we can take you through some of the same learning and information that > you get in a full-blown POSSE. > > Thanks, > > - POSSE California 2010 Instructor team > -- > name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener > team: Red Hat Community Architecture > uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki > gpg: AD0E0C41 > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener > team: Red Hat Community Architecture > uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki > gpg: AD0E0C41 > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > >
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