I'm also planning to attend SIGCSE and would be willing to participate and help out!
-- ralph On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Bonnie MacKellar <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm going to be at SIGCSE to talk about our HFOSS chapter experience on a > panel on Community Based projects. I could help with this. > > Bonnie MacKellar > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mel Chua > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 11:06 AM > To: 'TOS List' > Subject: [TOS] SIGCSE pre-conference symposium on TOS > > So, the HFOSS folks aren't doing a pre-conference symposium -- do we > want to? > > I think this might be an interesting opportunity to do something I've > always wanted to try, which is an unconference at an academic gathering. > The cost is minimal and the TOS budget can absorb it (including getting > some sort of lunch brought in), so it's mostly a matter of "is there > interest in this?" > > Basically, this is what folks requested at the last POSSE -- more of a > chance to have semi-structured interactions and conversations with > people who are also teaching open source. Talk with other people with > gigantic software engineering classes! Share ideas for your first-year > seminars! Discuss different approaches to grading! There just never > seems to be enough time and catalyst-fu to get it all together in > person, and this might do the trick. > > We'd have a bit more structure/formality/prep than your average > unconference -- I'd plan on printing out "how unconferences work" > instruction sheets, for instance, so attendees have something to hold > and look at -- and ask a few people to arrive in Raleigh with ideas of > what they want to discuss, so we'll be sure to have a few topics pitched > (grading, capstones, etc). I can facilitate, but am equally happy to let > someone else with more unconference-fu step up. :) > > Strawman: 4 "tracks" (the 4 corners of the room) and perhaps 6 > timeslots, with lunch break in the middle. That's 24 discussions, > presentations, and general Chunks Of Cool Stuff. > > Who'd be in? Folks who've put SIGCSE pre-conference symposia together... > any best-practice recommendations? (For instance, charging a minimal fee > to cover lunch would go much lighter on our budget and let us help more > people actually fly in.) > > --Mel > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos >
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