The short version is "whoa, to-do list." I've posted the "priorities"
section at the top of this email so folks can tell me if these are not,
in fact, the three most important things to target.
* POSSE priorities: what are our biggest problems to solve? (mchua,
19:55:46)
* Scaleability of curriculum - what *is* the POSSE experience? Right
now it's too dependent on me being there to improvise (too much,
actually) through everything. (mchua, 19:57:00)
* Shortage of instructors - may want to rethink instructor criteria...
ctyler pointed out at RIT that the important part is actually "must
have taught open source participation" rather than "is a POSSE
alumni" - the two are not necessarily the same thing, esp. right now
(mchua, 19:57:38)
* Lack of followup/support during the school year... what do
professors need *after* POSSE? We're not keeping in touch very well
to find out what we can do to help (we being the broader TOS/FOSS
communities). (mchua, 19:58:42)
* (1) Curriculum re-articulation, and testing that during POSSE China
(mchua, 20:04:12)
* (2) Seeking out professors who *have* taught open source, and asking
them if they are interested in instructing a 2011 POSSE - which will
determine how many we can run, and with what FOSS
communities/projects (mchua, 20:04:57)
* (3) Making sure we have a list of 2010-2011 school year game plans
for all POSSE alumni who want to do something this school year
(mchua, 20:05:40)
Meeting started by mchua at 19:01:16 UTC. The full logs are available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource/2010-07-06/posse_weekly_meeting.2010-07-06-19.01.log.html
Meeting summary
---------------
* Midsummer pause to assess where we are - what are the highest priority
things to do for POSSE? (mchua, 19:01:57)
* POSSE RIT and Worcester follow-up (mchua, 19:05:44)
* ACTION: mchua make sure finances (payments, expenses, etc) are taken
care of (mchua, 19:06:05)
* ACTION: mchua pass through blogs, notes, etc. from POSSE RIT and
Worcester and update their respective POSSE wiki pages into being an
archive (mchua, 19:06:54)
* ACTION: mchua email each POSSE list wrt followup plans for
individual professors (mchua, 19:07:26)
* ACTION: mchua and lmacken kick off Fedora Community FAD planning at
RIT (October?) (mchua, 19:07:39)
* ACTION: mchua inquire about Worcester hackfest planning
(Sugar-based?) (mchua, 19:08:01)
* ACTION: mchua summarize POSSE Worcester and RIT into an osdc/edu
article (mchua, 19:08:32)
* Upcoming POSSEs (mchua, 19:08:58)
* ACTION: mchua confirm visa, instructors for POSSE China (mchua,
19:09:55)
* ACTION: mchua get applications, make attendees list for POSSE China,
send out pre-POSSE account creation assignments (mchua, 19:10:34)
* One area of concern - it sounds like some applicants to POSSE China
will need translation... I would *love* to have a Mandarin-speaking
POSSE, but I do not think that our instructors can handle it well
right now (i.e. Harish and I speak English). Particularly since the
point of POSSE is community engagement, and the Chinese-speaking
Fedora community is not very large, so that's a limited opportunity
to participate. (mchua, 19:11:53)
* ACTION: mchua to address with POSSE China organizers the question of
language/translation (mchua, 19:12:53)
* IDEA: aim for a Chinese-language POSSE next summer, and use the
interim time to build a Chinese-speaking community with bilingual
participants from this year's POSSE plus the existing Chinese
community in Fedora (mchua, 19:13:30)
* LINK: https://fedorahosted.org/lingobot/ (mchua, 19:17:08)
* ACTION: mchua check on POSSE Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa
(mchua, 19:20:13)
* ACTION: mchua start discussions on POSSE Pakistan and Dubai (mchua,
19:20:27)
* ACTION: mchua and quaid reopen POSSE California discussion for
Summer 2011 (mchua, 19:21:02)
* ACTION: mchua talk with jadudm, mizmo about POSSE Design in Summer
2011 (mchua, 19:21:15)
* ACTION: mchua publish draft calendar for Summer 2011 POSSE planning
(mchua, 19:22:10)
* IDEA: Announce locations by January 2011, heavy publicity around
SIGCSE (March 2011, iirc) (mchua, 19:22:25)
* POSSE infrastructure (mchua, 19:23:50)
* ACTION: mchua and ianweller to design and prototype a registration
system for POSSE next week (mchua, 19:24:02)
* ACTION: mchua write a POSSE planning checklist for upcoming POSSEs
to use (mchua, 19:24:13)
* POSSE curriculum (mchua, 19:24:33)
* For backstory, I was at a curriculum design workshop last week -
most of the attendees were professors looking to change their
curriculum in a specific way (mchua, 19:25:01)
* LINK: http://i2e2.olin.edu/summer2010/program.php (mchua,
19:25:05)
* We got some very concrete feedback/guidance on curriculum design,
and I also got a chance to see what a workshop for professors looks
like (although apparently this one was far more interactive than
usual; it tends to be more lecture-ish than what we experienced)
(mchua, 19:25:34)
* ACTION: JonathanD to get mchua in touch with friend with both
China/US experience (mchua, 19:31:09)
* ACTION: mchua outline design thinking methodology she's putting the
POSSE curriculum through (mchua, 19:33:37)
* There's a process for designing good learning experiences, just like
there's a process for releasing good software... we should follow
it! (mchua, 19:34:05)
* IDEA: get education students to look at the design of the POSSE
curriculum itself to see whether we're meeting our stated learning
objectives (mchua, 19:35:54)
* Workshop followup (mchua, 19:37:13)
* Workshop followup (mchua, 19:37:31)
* The workshop gave us some concrete suggestions to immediately
improve the program (mchua, 19:37:50)
* ACTION: mchua toss around the POSSE rocket pitch: read "Made To
Stick" and apply it to the POSSE webpage (mchua, 19:38:09)
* ACTION: mchua ask who's coming to FIE and get together a TOS dinner
there, bring POSSE design to toss around (mchua, 19:38:41)
* LINK: http://fie-conference.org/fie2010/ (mchua, 19:39:02)
* IDEA: Think about grant applications for TOS activities and POSSE
itself. (mchua, 19:42:05)
* ACTION: mchua write an open blog post asking what that process is
like (mchua, 19:42:14)
* ACTION: mchua follow up thanking workshop attendees for their
suggestions, asking if the patches were applied correctly, and if
anyone is interested in a POSSE next summer :) (mchua, 19:44:36)
* alumni followup (mchua, 19:45:05)
* ACTION: mchua list and follow up with each individual POSSE alumni
on what their plans are for the school year - make class/project
pairings (mchua, 19:45:29)
* ACTION: mchua think about what we should do with TOS funding
(mchua, 19:48:08)
* we have $8k of budget for TOS, how do we want to manage it and what
do we want to use it on? sort of out of scope for the POSSE meeting,
but infrastructure (hosting) is one thing POSSE needs (mchua,
19:48:45)
* ACTION: mchua and Jeff_S talk about TOS hosting during OSCON-ish
(mchua, 19:54:36)
Meeting ended at 20:07:33 UTC.
Action Items
------------
* mchua make sure finances (payments, expenses, etc) are taken care of
* mchua pass through blogs, notes, etc. from POSSE RIT and Worcester and
update their respective POSSE wiki pages into being an archive
* mchua email each POSSE list wrt followup plans for individual
professors
* mchua and lmacken kick off Fedora Community FAD planning at RIT
(October?)
* mchua inquire about Worcester hackfest planning (Sugar-based?)
* mchua summarize POSSE Worcester and RIT into an osdc/edu article
* mchua confirm visa, instructors for POSSE China
* mchua get applications, make attendees list for POSSE China, send out
pre-POSSE account creation assignments
* mchua to address with POSSE China organizers the question of
language/translation
* mchua check on POSSE Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa
* mchua start discussions on POSSE Pakistan and Dubai
* mchua and quaid reopen POSSE California discussion for Summer 2011
* mchua talk with jadudm, mizmo about POSSE Design in Summer 2011
* mchua publish draft calendar for Summer 2011 POSSE planning
* mchua and ianweller to design and prototype a registration system for
POSSE next week
* mchua write a POSSE planning checklist for upcoming POSSEs to use
* JonathanD to get mchua in touch with friend with both China/US
experience
* mchua outline design thinking methodology she's putting the POSSE
curriculum through
* mchua toss around the POSSE rocket pitch: read "Made To Stick" and
apply it to the POSSE webpage
* mchua ask who's coming to FIE and get together a TOS dinner there,
bring POSSE design to toss around
* mchua write an open blog post asking what that process is like
* mchua follow up thanking workshop attendees for their suggestions,
asking if the patches were applied correctly, and if anyone is
interested in a POSSE next summer :)
* mchua list and follow up with each individual POSSE alumni on what
their plans are for the school year - make class/project pairings
* mchua think about what we should do with TOS funding
* mchua and Jeff_S talk about TOS hosting during OSCON-ish
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* Jeff_S
* mchua and Jeff_S talk about TOS hosting during OSCON-ish
* JonathanD
* JonathanD to get mchua in touch with friend with both China/US
experience
* mchua
* mchua make sure finances (payments, expenses, etc) are taken care of
* mchua pass through blogs, notes, etc. from POSSE RIT and Worcester
and update their respective POSSE wiki pages into being an archive
* mchua email each POSSE list wrt followup plans for individual
professors
* mchua and lmacken kick off Fedora Community FAD planning at RIT
(October?)
* mchua inquire about Worcester hackfest planning (Sugar-based?)
* mchua summarize POSSE Worcester and RIT into an osdc/edu article
* mchua confirm visa, instructors for POSSE China
* mchua get applications, make attendees list for POSSE China, send
out pre-POSSE account creation assignments
* mchua to address with POSSE China organizers the question of
language/translation
* mchua check on POSSE Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa
* mchua start discussions on POSSE Pakistan and Dubai
* mchua and quaid reopen POSSE California discussion for Summer 2011
* mchua talk with jadudm, mizmo about POSSE Design in Summer 2011
* mchua publish draft calendar for Summer 2011 POSSE planning
* mchua and ianweller to design and prototype a registration system
for POSSE next week
* mchua write a POSSE planning checklist for upcoming POSSEs to use
* JonathanD to get mchua in touch with friend with both China/US
experience
* mchua outline design thinking methodology she's putting the POSSE
curriculum through
* mchua toss around the POSSE rocket pitch: read "Made To Stick" and
apply it to the POSSE webpage
* mchua ask who's coming to FIE and get together a TOS dinner there,
bring POSSE design to toss around
* mchua write an open blog post asking what that process is like
* mchua follow up thanking workshop attendees for their suggestions,
asking if the patches were applied correctly, and if anyone is
interested in a POSSE next summer :)
* mchua list and follow up with each individual POSSE alumni on what
their plans are for the school year - make class/project pairings
* mchua think about what we should do with TOS funding
* mchua and Jeff_S talk about TOS hosting during OSCON-ish
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
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* Jeff_S (5)
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