I would love to see the blogs if the students are okay with that.... Dee Weikle Eastern Mennonite University
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Matt Jadud <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom, all, > > I've submitted a proposal regarding privilege/empowerment in our deep dive > into FOSS this term. I specifically pitched it as being something in the > students' voices, and (if I can dig up support, somehow), I'd like to bring > some of the students to be able to speak personally to their first jump > into FOSS participation, with a particular focus on the human impact (in > terms of confidence, vision for the future, etc.) that it has had. Already, > their blogs are an inspiring thing to read, so I'm *really* looking forward > to where our continued reading and reflection take us. > > Continuing to ramble for a moment... despite the advice of wiser > colleagues, I gave the students in our "FOSS Engineering" class some > options. As a result, we have: > > * 12 students contributing to OpenMRS, > * 8 students contributing to OctoPrint > * 4 students contributing to Libre Office > * 4 students contributing to CodeWorkout > * 4 students contributing to the Teensy audio libraries > > Structurally, the're in pairs (which I grouped intentionally), so they > have primary support/collaborators on everything. The larger groups (which > are really all groups of 4, because they're in a room that has tables that > seat 4) provide some meta-structure, and we're doing a lot of blogging > along the way. I still need to get an aggregator set up for all of their > blogs... I'll share links to their blogs if people are interested. > > As of this week, all but one or two students have working builds for all > of these systems, which (given the s ize/complexity of some of those > builds) is absolutely incredible. Along the way, I've learned a lot about > virt-builder, have installed Fedora 23 as our new departmental VM server, > and really wish we had a full-time UNIX admin around here... but I WILL > have a completely scripted, repeatable VM deployment before I'm done! > > Truly, I'm excited, and I think the students are, too. I don't know if > they understand how large an accomplishment some of those builds are, and > we're now zeroing in on bugs, and beginning a lightweight design process as > they look at narrowing in the scope of their proposed contributions. (Thank > you, Heidi... I'm lifting some of that structure from your 490 (?) there...) > > It is so nice to finally be teaching this course, after... what?... more > than half a decade of POSSE participation/conversation? > > Righto. I've been at it forever today, and I have a mid-midterm to write... > > Cheers, > Matt > > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Tom Callaway <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This year, for the first time ever, the Red Hat Summit (Red Hat's >> mega-conference) is having a dedicated community track, vetted by the >> OSAS team (our team at Red Hat). There is interest in having Open Source >> in EDU talks! >> >> The Call For Proposals (not papers, notice) is here: >> >> http://community.redhat.com/blog/2016/01/community-track-at-red-hat-summit-call-for-proposals/ >> >> Here are some areas which I think would be well received by the CFP >> review committee: >> >> * HFOSS in edu >> * Practical examples of how engaging students with open source matters >> * Open Innovation as it applies to open source >> * Students giving strong presentations on how open source has changed >> their life/the world around them/their school/etc >> >> Things they are not interested in: >> >> * Sales pitches for your school >> * Discussion of proprietary technologies >> * Academic style papers (not that these are bad, just not for RHS) >> >> Red Hat Summit has an audience of top IT execs, administrators, >> developers, and RH employees (from the CEO down). Presenting at RHS is >> an excellent chance to have exposure to your programs (and students) >> from a worldwide audience of employers and potential contributors, as >> well as key developers from a wide range of upstream projects. Red Hat >> Summit also runs in parallel with DevNation, which has a focus on >> developers and draws a rather large crowd. You have the opportunity to >> inspire and be inspired (and get on Red Hat's radar in a positive way). >> >> The CFP closes February 8th, 2016 (sorry, I know that's not a lot of >> time, out of my control). >> >> In 2016, the Red Hat Summit will be in San Francisco, CA, June 28-30: >> http://www.redhat.com/summit/ >> >> DevNation happens June 26-29: >> http://www.devnation.org/ >> >> Thanks, >> >> ~tom >> >> == >> Red Hat >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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