Agreed. That's always the way with funded work. Cheers,
Greg -----Original Message----- From: tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org [mailto:tos-boun...@teachingopensource.org] On Behalf Of STEPHEN JACOBS Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 10:19 AM To: tos@teachingopensource.org Subject: Re: [TOS] tos Digest, Vol 39, Issue 6 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 > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was > scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/attachments/2012052 > 6/6b8ae0fc/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > 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 > Message-ID: <005a01cd3b87$19f5df20$4de19d60$@com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > > End of tos Digest, Vol 39, Issue 6 > ********************************** _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
