You guys are so awesome. On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Mel Chua <m...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Sebastian and I are on a roll tonight. Just shipped this one. (He also > just submitted a solo talk on Etherpad... I need to figure out if there > are other talks I want to give - anyone interested in hearing me blather > about anything in particular?) > > --Mel, typing this up while Sebastian fills out O'Reilly webforms > > --- > > Title: POSSE intensive -- a cultural immersion workshop > > Description: > > POSSE is a Red Hat workshop on the tools and practices of open source > communities for people (of all disciplines - no code required) > interested in participating in a project but who have no time and need > to learn the basics of open source collaboration NOW. Originally > designed for professors getting their students started as contributors, > we're opening it to the public for the first time at OSCON. > > Abstract: > > Working in the open source world can be a daunting proposition. Not > everybody has the time to learn about the means, tools and most > importantly the culture this world employs. If you're someone with > skills that would benefit an open source project - developer, sysadmin, > designer, writer, marketer, lawyer, tester, and nearly anything else > under the sun - but have a hard time figuring out how to interact with > the communities you want to work with, this workshop is for you. > > POSSE (Professors' Open Source Summer Experience) is a one-week bootcamp > initially designed in 2009 for university professors who needed to learn > the workings of the world they were about to plunge their students into. > See http://opensource.com/education/10/9/open-source-education-educators > for more details on the original workshop. Since then, we've run it in 3 > continents for faculty from institutions ranging from small liberal arts > schools to large public universities to selective technical colleges, > and from disciplines covering everything from CS and electrical > engineering to journalism and technical writing. POSSE alumni have met > with success, engaging their students in marketing, interface design, > and more - directly in the project communities they've chosen to work with. > > In order to bring these opportunities to a wider audience, we've > distilled the POSSE curriculum into a one-day intensive for OSCON. This > mini-POSSE is focused on basic communication skills and tools that will > allow you to learn "the open source way" by navigating actual project > communties - the equivalent of a traveler's phrasebook for a foreign land. > > In this workshop, you will be expected to dive into actual open source > project chatrooms, code, writing, design, and infrastructure and work > with contributors from that community who you have never met before and > who do not know that you'll be coming, because that's often how it > will be when you're contributing there on your own. You will be pushed > outside your comfort zone, but you will also have the in-person guidance > of experienced mentors who will - in real-time - annotate and explain > the methods behind the madness you're encountering, and help you learn > how to navigate this new world yourself. > > Attendees who enjoy the workshop and wish to proceed with their learning > can utilize follow-up open content modules that will be released this > summer. This long-distance, study-at-your-own-pace version of the > remainder of the POSSE curriculum is not focused on tool-learning and > book exercises, but rather on continuing to get you engaged in > conversation and collaboration with actual open source communities you > may want to work with. We highly recommend participation in this > in-person workshop for those thinking about utilizing the remote modules > described at http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_modules > (currently under development by the Teaching Open Source community). > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos >
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