Dunno if I'll go to either yet, haven't taken a look and not sure yet what I'd pitch if I were looking to put in a paper. Might be interesting, however to think about the following...
1. laying out an agenda to cover both. 2. Co-Ordinating some kind of joint presentation or workshop that's streamed live between the two sites, joining the conferences around open source. On Jan 14, 2013, at 7:00 AM, tos-requ...@teachingopensource.org wrote: > Send tos mailing list submissions to > tos@teachingopensource.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > tos-requ...@teachingopensource.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > tos-ow...@teachingopensource.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of tos digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. FIE and SIGITE conferences (Heidi Ellis) > 2. Re: FIE and SIGITE conferences (Mel Chua) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:21:09 -0500 > From: "Heidi Ellis" <heidijcel...@gmail.com> > To: "'Discussions about Teaching Open Source'" > <tos@teachingopensource.org> > Subject: [TOS] FIE and SIGITE conferences > Message-ID: <007701cdf190$da744510$8f5ccf30$@com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Folks, > > > > Many of us have been looking ahead to conferences in the fall. There are two > academic conferences that are likely venues for TOS publications and events > held in October: Frontiers in Education (FIE) in Oklahoma and Special > Interest Group for Information Technology Education (SIGITE) in Florida. > > > > Unfortunately, these two conferences are being held at exactly the same > time. I have attended both conferences in the past. While FIE is a much > larger conference, it also covers a wider domain of engineering education. > Recently I have observed a diminishing computing audience at FIE. Therefore, > I draw your attention to the SIGITE conference. It has a smaller attendance > (less than 100), but it is much more focused on computing and has a > community that is very welcoming to TOS topics. The information about the > conference is still being posted, but typically submissions would be in > March. > > > > Just wanted to bring some attention to SIGITE and also let you know the > reasons why I'm submitting to SIGITE rather than FIE this year. I do wish > that they weren't being held at the same time! > > Heidi > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.teachingopensource.org/pipermail/tos/attachments/20130113/07659928/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:59:28 -0500 > From: Mel Chua <m...@purdue.edu> > To: Discussions about Teaching Open Source > <tos@teachingopensource.org> > Subject: Re: [TOS] FIE and SIGITE conferences > Message-ID: <50f33c50.9020...@purdue.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >> events held in October: Frontiers in Education (FIE) in Oklahoma and >> Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education (SIGITE) in >> Florida. > > FIE abstract submission deadlines are Feb. 1st, for the record. I'm > personally more likely to submit to FIE because that's where my advisor > (and therefore my research projects) will be, but Heidi's points are > well taken (thanks for the heads-up, Heidi -- I hadn't realized that) > and if I weren't making my submission decisions on the basis of my > advisor's travelling, I'd probably put my TOS-type stuff in for SIGITE > because of her rationale. > > --Mel > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > > End of tos Digest, Vol 46, Issue 8 > ********************************** _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
