Re: [TOS] FREE TOS/POSSE whiteboard markers up for grabs

2015-07-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 06:55:01PM +, Chua, Mallory L wrote: > I found a box of TOS whiteboard markers while moving out of my grad school > apartment. They are largely black and blue, and work great (I tested a > representative sample). They look like this and would make great conference > s

Re: [TOS] CS certification for K12 - what is out there?

2012-08-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 11:02:27AM -0500, Don Davis wrote: > > This gets into far ranging ethical debates concerning the moral software > compasses, figured worlds, and interpretive ideological frameworks of a > small number of teachers in an already marginalized field. Are you suggesting that we

Re: [TOS] CS certification for K12 - what is out there?

2012-08-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:09:28AM -0400, Gregory Hislop wrote: > So, we're woefully lacking in the policy/standards, the demand from > stakeholders, and the means to produce and keep enough competent teachers. > It's a good problem to think about and work on, but I think it requires a > multi-pr

Re: [TOS] CS certification for K12 - what is out there?

2012-08-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:17:09AM -0400, Bonnie MacKellar wrote: > My kids are in public school in an affluent district in Westchester County, > NY. There is plenty of money for video production labs, drama, and trips. The > schools are well equipped with computers. NY state has a "technology" > r

Re: [TOS] CS certification for K12 - what is out there?

2012-07-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:50:25AM -0700, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I was just talking with Selena Deckelmann about computer science in > K12, a conversation partially spurred by this report: I came across this link from a BBC story about IC

Re: [TOS] Guidelines on launching an open source project?

2012-06-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 01:58:18PM -0700, tosmail20110729.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: > It seems to me, thus far the replies to this request for information > point to the future, but ignore the past. "a fairly extensive body of > code" indicates to me this code has been a long time

Re: [TOS] Guidelines on launching an open source project?

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:51:40AM +0200, adam hyde wrote: > ok..just to throw some off the wall stuff into the conversation. i > think license and technical infrastructure are not the answer to > your question. im pondering this a lot recently and hoping to write > an article titled something like

Re: [TOS] looking for open source speakers

2011-12-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 09:57:33AM -0500, Bonnie MacKellar wrote: > Hi, > > I have no idea what these things are! Is it hardware? This could be a good > idea - but our students are very career driven. Do you think it would be > appealing to career-oriented students? I would definitely be interest

Re: [TOS] looking for open source speakers

2011-12-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:14:26PM -0500, Bonnie MacKellar wrote: > find local people since we have no travel budget! Local for us is NYC metro > area. Are there any people you would recommend, or do any of you do talks like > this? > you might want to ask on the debian-nyc or nylug-talk mailing

Re: [TOS] Fwd: An experience report....

2011-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 03:33:13PM -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote: > Hi, > So I am begging all of you professors, instructors, etc.to please approach > FOSS > projects for help. We are happy to help you out. > > --joel sherrill > RTEMS Just a few clarifications: from what I read (using cheese on

Re: [TOS] Copyright assignment considered harmful?

2011-08-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 02:12:45AM -0400, Mel Chua wrote: > (The subject line is an allusion to http://www.u.arizona.e > > As some of you know, I started grad school this week. And... culture > shock. O boy, culture shock. (Yes, I know every professor who's > had me for POSSE is now chortling

Re: [TOS] First interview processed

2011-08-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 07:01:08PM -0400, Matthew Jadud wrote: > Hi all, > > Mary Bitter gave me a set of deadlines to hit, which means I now must > get the podcasts edited in a timely manner. We like the series title > "Those Who Can Teach and Do", and think it's going to climb the charts > in a

Re: [TOS] POSSE 2011 - Pictures

2011-07-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 08:17:18PM -0400, Matthew Jadud wrote: > Hi all, > > I've posted some photos from POSSE 2011. I didn't do any image editing > (white balance, etc.), and am happy to pull any pictures from the set. > (They're rather boring pictures, so I'm not sure why that would be the > ca

Re: [TOS] About the POSSE cohort list privacy settings

2011-07-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 11:15:59PM -0400, Mel Chua wrote: > A heads-up, in the name of being transparent about privacy: > > We've got a mailing list for the members of the 2011 POSSE cohort. > The list membership is restricted for staff/participants in that > particular POSSE (as it has been for a

Re: [TOS] Introduction to Free and Open Source Software - Objectives/Review

2011-06-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 09:52:17AM +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Andrew Hamblin wrote: > > The contributor mountain example feels to be problematic, as though it > > reflects a hierarchy, rather than an open process. > > I like the analogy, it seems appropriate. There definitely is a > hiera

Re: [TOS] Book Review

2011-01-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:19:52PM -0500, Algot Runeman wrote: > On 01/23/2011 10:46 AM, tosmaillist.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net > wrote: > > The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development. > > By Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman. MIT Press > > http://www.economist.com/node/1789997

Re: [TOS] Distributed Collaboration Tools: followup from watercooler/classroom yesterday

2010-09-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:17:57AM -0400, Mel Chua wrote: > (this is a followup to the class advertised at > http://blog.melchua.com/2010/09/07/fedora-classroom-tuesday-sep-14-at-1600-utc-working-with-people-who-arent-there-basic-distributed-collaboration-tools/) > > Thanks to everyone who came y

Re: [TOS] License question

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:54:12PM -0400, Matthew Jadud wrote: > Hi all, > > Alice wrote a Java book, and Bob and I would like to wrap the code > from the book for use on Android. That is, we'd like to convert the > text-based assignments from the book into assignments with a GUI > component that

Re: [TOS] More on Proprietary Software & Higher Education...

2010-07-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:00:45PM -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/technology/05soft.html > > > > > "..Part of its problem may be that its ability to intrigue and attract > software > developers is also waning, which threatens its ability to steer markets over

Re: [TOS] Scribd

2010-06-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:30:23AM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > I take some issue with your conclusion. I see some complements > between projects such as FLOSSManuals and Teaching Open Source, but > our missions are completely orthogonal. If you think they are that > closely related, perhaps that

Re: [TOS] [Telepathy] OLPC Open Video Chat Announcement

2010-06-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:59:28PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > Earlier this year we did some changes in both farsight and Gstreamer which > caused issues when combining certain versions of the two. Ofcourse if you had > raised the issue you were seeing with us at the time we could have helped yo

Re: [TOS] Scribd

2010-06-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:44:01AM -0400, Karsten Wade wrote: > - "Kevin Mark" wrote: > > > As someone who just joined the list, I did not know about your > > connection to > > TOS but now that you bring it up, I hope the rest of the folks can > > expl

Re: [TOS] Scribd

2010-06-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:21:23AM +0200, adam wrote: > ok...maybe this is the wrong thing to do but i am going to let a little > frustration seep out..,. > > i am from FLOSS Manuals and we used to supply the toolset for TOS to > create your first book. Somehow we got cut out of the equation and n