Hey, Jay! Sorry I'm so late to join the welcome party -- sounds like
you've gotten quite the reception already, though.
Realistically, I expect a great deal of execution pain around making
this happen. But, I think the potential payoff is so good for society
that I remain very motivated.
Oh, we can talk about this at SIGCSE for a long, long time. ;-)
Current status: The first small step being taken is a project team
from one of my existing project classes is working on an existing open
source project this year rather a typical industry collaboration.
This has necessitated the grafting of curriculum typically used for
industry collaborations to something that fits an open source project
model. We are learning a ton about what is needed to make this work on
a bigger scale.
Would love to follow along with this -- do you folks have an IRC
channel, blog, and/or website somewhere?
In the long term, I'd like to see my project teams at Stanford
collaborating not just with the open source project maintainers, but
working in teams that incorporate students at other universities as
well. I think this will introduce all sorts of interesting new
dimensions to the experience...But, that's a long way from here.
You might be interested in http://ucosp.wordpress.com/about/. I think
Greg Wilson and some other folks from the program hang out around these
parts -- and I see Titus Brown on the faculty list as well, so even
though the program's based in Canada, US schools have certainly
participated.
For now, I'm pleased to virtually be a part of this group. I imagine
and hope I will meet a number of you at SIGCSE in a few days. Please
don't hesitate to reach out if this sounds interesting.
Glad to hear you'll be joining us at SIGCSE -- when do you arrive? If
you're around on Wednesday we have a pre-conference symposium in
unconference format that you might find useful -- there's a BoF on... I
want to say Thursday (anyone?) and a workshop Friday night, and then of
course some individual TOS folks are giving talks and panels and
presenting papers and such.
--Mel
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