I'm trying to be as transparent about the TOS/POSSE alumni grants budget as possible, so here's the status of Matt's request for video equipment (our first POSSE alumni grant request). This will be of interest for other POSSE alumni thinking about requesting grants for this school year (note that as our alumni pool grows, the number of requests is also likely to grow but the budget is not, so this year, while there are a small number of alumni, please ask for stuff!)
The original proposal's budget request is here: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Jadudm/PTV#Budget I've granted budget for the request, purchased some equipment and contacted Matt about the rest, with status updates here: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Jadudm/PTV#Status_updates This is also being tracked on the TOS budget page for POSSE alumni grants, http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Budget#POSSE_alumni_grants. If anyone has better ideas on how to keep track of this, please let me know - and POSSE alumni, please get in touch to let us know how we can support your classes this school year! We're still working out what we can do in terms of support and sponsorship[0], so please ask and we'll figure it out together. --Mel [0] For instance, equipment is an easy yes; conference travel to present a class you're teaching with open source community participation is also an easy yes; travel funding for an open source community member your class is working with remotely to come and visit your class in person during the term is a very easy yes. Directly writing a check to a school to fund a course without being able to see exactly what that budget goes towards, probably harder, but we'll discuss. _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
