Hi Folks, Below is an opportunity to collaborate with fellow FOSS educators at SIGCSE.
Enjoy! Heidi SIGCSE 2023 Affiliated Event: HFOSS Education Curious about Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS)? Want to involve your students in projects for social good? Not sure how to get started? Join us at this SIGCSE 2023 Affiliated Event in Toronto, Canada on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Overview Student participation in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) provides an opportunity for learning software engineering technical and professional skills while also engaging students with computing for social good. Experience indicates that faculty are interested in employing HFOSS but also find this teaching approach challenging, especially at first. To better support instructors, HFOSS educators are exploring ways to provide better support and control for instructors taking initial steps in using HFOSS with students. This full-day event will consist of morning and afternoon sessions that can be registered for separately. The focus for each session will be as follows: POSSE Round-up (morning) - The morning session will provide an opportunity for faculty members engaged in HFOSS education to present and discuss their experiences. Attendees will include prior attendees of the Professors Open Source Software Experience (POSSE) and other faculty who have some familiarity with open source software development. HFOSS Education Approaches (afternoon) – The afternoon session will be suitable for any instructor interested in HFOSS education, whether experienced or not. The afternoon session will explore tools and opportunities that can help faculty expand HFOSS education. This will include: * Instructor-Led HFOSS Projects – This topic will focus on development of instructor-led HFOSS projects. This model of HFOSS education employs HFOSS projects that are started by and managed by one or more academic institutions. Examples include Libre Food Pantry, Open Energy Dashboard, FarmData, and Submitty. Presentation and discussion will cover the status of these projects and issues and opportunities for starting or joining an instructor-led HFOSS project. * HFOSS Education Kits – This topic will cover development of HFOSS kits as an approach to making HFOSS education more manageable. The goal of an HFOSS kit is to provide an isolated environment built with artifacts from an active HFOSS project that can be used to learn and practice software skills. For example, a kit containing a code base, issue tracker, and revision control history could support learning related to version control. HFOSS kits can provide the complexity and scale of the real project, and introduce students to computing for social good. A kit can also provide better predictability and control for the instructor, including an ability to reset the environment to a known state. Please visit http://foss2serve.org/index.php/SIGCSE_2023_Affiliated_Event for the agenda and https://forms.gle/Cz49VjtPQZEaEQrr5 for the registration link. Organizers * Gregory Hislop, Drexel University * Heidi Ellis, Western New England University * Stoney Jackson, Western New England University * Lori Postner, Nassau Community College * Darci Burdge, Nassau Community College * Grant Braught, Dickinson College * Karl Wurst, Worcester State University * Steven Huss-Lederman, Open Energy Dashboard * Wes Turner, Rensselaer Polytechnic University * Cam Macdonell, MacEwan University
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