On 02/27/2012 02:32 PM, Andrea Hickerson wrote:
Hello! I would like to use part of my Posse grant to go to SXSW. I
will be moderating the panel Binary Bitches: Keeping open source open
to women.
I went to grad school at UT and am staying with friends, but my
expenses will be airfare and a car. (I bought the ticket already.)
Got this. Taking the convo about receipt details offlist, and tracking
them at http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Budget#In-progress_requests.
In other news...Spring quarter kicks off in two weeks. My newswriting
class will have an assignment to write about open source generally
and to write another story profiling a project. If you are
interested in having one of your projects showcased, let me know!
Andrea -- we can take this offlist too, but I'd love to see profiles of
(and can connect you to people involved with):
*
http://opensource.com/life/11/12/open-source-changes-face-stenography-and-possibilities-hearing-impaired
* the interesting open source licensing and IP transfer issues that
happened when http://eucalyptus.com began as a CS research project at UCSB
* http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/ (which I don't actually have
direct connections to, but think is awesome anyway)
* http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Mchua/Programmabilities
(a project I'm researching on for UNICEF; ask Steve for RIT/NTID
connection ideas, happy to share more details... also I really need to
blog and tell TOS more about this project now that I'm back in town)
* http://altmetrics.org/manifesto -- a scholarly movement that develops
some open source software for its tools
* mediawiki -- see http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2012/02/12/0
* http://openplans.org/ -- a nonprofit that has the FOSS mentality in a
very interesting way (I could swear RIT already did some work with them;
they're in Manhattan)
*
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/107975578/sparklab-an-educational-build-mobile
- a budding open hardware project out at Stanford (disclaimer: I am
biased, as my brother's working on this and is slowly sucking me in.)
* http://questioncopyright.org/ -- again, not an open source software
project, but a rather relevant topic for budding journalists, and an
organization with a fascinating viewpoint.
--Mel
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