Congratulations to the new members of our POSSE 2011 cohort! * http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_2011_applicants#Mihaela_Sabin
We now have 6 out of 15 seats filled, and 2 new applications. Here they are, with my comments: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_2011_applicants#Elinor_Madigan I like this application a lot - it sounds like they've already got something excellent going here with the introduction of Python, and getting some contact with the expert Python dev community (possibly flying over a dev or sending some students over to PyCon with course funding) would really help them flourish. I know we can connect them with Fedora's Python development community; I don't know Ubuntu's Python community personally but I'm sure there are people there who'd be very receptive to helping out and making sure both platforms are supported if students need both. We should be able to find enough novice Python bounties to make fun little projects - I wonder how the students would fare in navigating larger codebases/projects to make small patches? That would increase the pool we can draw from. This gets at +1 from me - any other thoughts? http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_2011_applicants#Allen_White I'd also love to be able to reach out to this student population - also, the school uses a *ton* of FOSS - the tool-skills are there, it might just be the specifics of working with an open source upstream that are needed - and it would be great to get them started contributing back to their upstreams - finding a doable project (or projects, for multiple small teams) that will fit with their timeframe might be the main challenge here, and again, it sounds like access to a community of developers would be a huge benefit. I'm scratching my head over projects that could support local cultural preservation while still plugging them into a broad developer community, and wrap nicely after the year is over without much need for ongoing maintenance. Perhaps the students could do a deployment of a CMS system for an exhibit and write custom modules/patches for that upstream - we'll have to look around. Also a +1 from me, but I'd love to hear thoughts since Moodle, etc. and web systems aren't my area of expertise. Comments, questions, etc. on either application would be most appreciated! If you're interested in POSSE but haven't applied yet, head to http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE#Apply - there are only 9 seats left, so send those apps in now! Please holler if you've got any questions. Cheers, --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
