Mel, Perhaps I should send this question to the TOS mailing list, but I am really just a lurker there, not a participant (so far).
I attended the workshop that you, Karl, Heidi, and several others gave last year at SIGCSE, but have not done anything further with TOS or any formal Open Source community. I would like to change that, and it seems that going to an appropriate national or regional conference, Hackathon, or other community event would be a useful first step. I did a quick Google search, and it seems that many of the conferences are centered around a particular technology (e.g., Linux, Python, Perl conferences, etc). POSSCON (Palmetto OSS Conference) seems to be an exception, but do you know of others that you would suggest? On a related note, will there be anything TOS-related at SIGCSE and/or FIE in 2013? Also, I have a memory of Heidi, Karl, and some others in the Northeast talking about a regional event they were taking students to last spring, but can't find the reference in my email archive. Do you know what that was, or should I ask one of them? And, maybe more importantly, do you know of anything similar in the midwest? (Purdue and Kalamazoo College are not all that far from each other!) Alyce ______________________________________________________ Alyce Brady Professor of Computer Science Kalamazoo College On Oct 12, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Mel Chua <m...@purdue.edu> wrote: >> I wanted to give you a heads up because we may see an increase in >> traffic on our site and on the list. Just wanted you to know where at >> least some of that traffic may be coming from and that most of these >> folks will be newbies. I also talked to a fair number of international >> folks including from India and Japan. > > Any new people on the list now? (If so, welcome! and please introduce > yourselves!) > > One thing we might want to have at future booths when TOS signup > interest is expected: a laptop open to the mailing list registration > page so that people can add themselves right then and there. > > --Mel > _______________________________________________ > 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
