Just an update on SIGCSE progress: urgent-deadline stuff (read: workshops and panels due today) looks like it's going to be all right.
Greg Hislop is freakin' amazing and pulled a workshop proposal out of nowhere, see http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/SIGCSE_2011/Workshop_proposal. Final revisions and submission are happening now, thank you Greg! And the panel proposal looks fantastic, http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/SIGCSE_2011/Panel_proposal - Matt Jadud is LaTeXing and doing final wordsmithing as we speak, http://github.com/jadudm/sigcse-2011-foss-panel has the ongoing LaTeX source. Thank you, Matt! (Note to self: professors are amazing. I thought I was good at hitting last-minute deadlines as a student, but this is at a whole different level.. clearly I must step up my game. :) We'd also like to have a BoF, for random/informal gatherings, last-minute ideas, and so forth, but need help putting one together. Anyone interested? I've started notes here: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/SIGCSE_2011#Birds_of_a_Feather Matt Jadud brought up putting a "come to our BoF!" flyer insert in every conference attendee bag. I had a brainstorm: what if we handed out a livecd with SIGCSE/TOS/etc. documents, tools, etc. on it - not just TOS links, but also the SIGCSE conference links, and realtime participation stuff like microblogging clients auto-set to the right hashtags, the homepage set to a schedule grid with etherpad for live-transcribing (similar to http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/wiki/index.php/Saturday_Session_Board), and so on? That way attendees would be incented to try it during the conference itself, and we might be able to persuade the conference organizers to let us make the OFFICIAL SIGCSE-BRANDED 2010 LIVE IMAGE!!! - especially if we can get Red Hat (or someone) to pay for media production so it's free to them. --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
