Haven't forgotten. Need to plan as if it doesn't come through and then be
pleasantly surprised if it does
> remember that we have a pending proposal with NSF that would provide support
> for faculty to attend POSSE's. That's been pending since January, but
> standard NSF response time is stated as 6-8 months. It's seldom less, and
> sometimes considerably more. Harish is aware of this proposal.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Greg Hislop
>
> From: tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org
> [mailto:tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of STEPHEN JACOBS
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:10 PM
> To: tos@teachingopensource.org
> Subject: [TOS] POSSE updates
>
> 1. POSSE @ RIT will be working, in part, with
> WebWorK's<http://webwork.maa.org/intro.html> Dev Camp in Rochester. Some of
> their folks will be coming to POSSE sessions Monday and Tuesday 6/4-5. We
> will offer POSSE participants the option of selecting WebWorK issues and bugs
> as their POSSE dev during the rest of the week. (Moksha and Pyramid being
> others) We will make the Thursday night POSSE dinner a joint POSSE and
> WeBWork social event.
>
> 2. Remy and I will be meeting with Michael Cunningham and Harish Pilay on
> 5/29 for half a day. The topics of this meeting are those that Mel and I
> discussed and posted last month in terms of how to move POSSE forward to a
> longer tail financial calendar, a set infra structure for supporting
> registrations, how to fix the funding process, etc. Remy will be taking
> notes and we'll post them all when we're done.
>
> 3. We have several participants this time around from the liberal arts side
> of the world. One option we can offer them is to take a whack at cleaning up
> the POSSE pages on the TOS wiki and/or the whole thing. Looking for your
> input on what you'd like and/or not like them to do here.
>
> SJ
>
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> Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 17:32:10 -0400
> From: "Heidi Ellis" <heidijcel...@gmail.com>
> To: <tos@teachingopensource.org>
> Subject: Re: [TOS] Facilitating the Integration of Free Software into
> Academic Courses
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> Hi Folks,
>
> For those of you who may not be familiar with Joanie's work, Joanie is one of
> the leads on the GNOME Accessibility project that fosters FOSS accessibility
> solutions for GUIs. Joanie has been instrumental in helping with getting my
> students started in various HFOSS projects over the past two years and she
> came down and spoke to my class about aspects of visual impairment this past
> fall. In addition, I have observed Joanie manage her team via IRC meetings
> (on and off as my schedule permits) and she does a great job with directing
> and encouraging the team. I think she'll make a super GNOME Foundation Board
> member!
>
> Heidi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joanmarie Diggs [mailto:jdi...@igalia.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:02 PM
> To: tos@teachingopensource.org; Heidi Ellis
> Subject: Facilitating the Integration of Free Software into Academic Courses
>
> Hey all.
>
> Back in October I met with several professors and also Sebastian and as a
> result of that had an idea. And I was psyched about it. And I was going to go
> home and blog about it and share it with y'all. But life and work just kept
> happening.
>
> Yadda, yadda, yadda, in response to Richard Stallman's question for
> candidates for the GNOME Foundation Board, I suddenly found myself writing
> the long-promised document. Apologies to those who knew about my promise and
> had to wait so long for me to deliver. :-/
>
> It is here for your consideration:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2012-May/msg00034.html
>
> Take care.
> --joanie
>
>
>
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