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- Outreachy Internships – Deadline Feb 1 January 21, 2021Outreachy has announced applications will open February 1st for their next round of internships that start May 2021. If you’re in an open source project interested in mentoring students, sign up here. Details about the internships: remote internships with communities located around the world diversity is supported: ...
- Open Source 101 January 17, 2021Open Source 101 is a great way to get students started in open source. Produced by All Things Open, Open Source 101 is a one day virtual conference intended to educate students (and professionals) on how to get started in open source as well as ...
- GitHub Student Survey Results December 29, 2020
GitHub’s latest “Classroom Report” indicates that students are increasingly likely to join open source projects with the most common programming language being Python. The results are based on a survey of 7070 students and 165 teachers who have participated in GitHub Education. Read the ... - HFOSS Project FarmData2 wins GNOME Challenge Phase 1! December 15, 2020The HFOSS team of Grant Braught, Farhan Siddiqui, Michael Skalak, and Allen Tucker has been selected to continue to Phase 2 of the Community Education Challenge! The Challenge is supported by the GNOME Foundation and Endless and has the goal to engage new coders with ...
- NSF Continues to Support Open Source Education November 27, 2020The National Science Foundation has awarded almost $2 million to thirteen researchers across 10 different organizations. The grant titled “Collaborative Research: OpenPace – Broadening Participation in Computing through Authentic, Collaborative Engagement with Computing for the Greater Good” builds on a foundation of four prior NSF ...
- Sloan Foundation Grant for Open@RIT November 15, 2020RIT’s open programs office has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to measure and strengthen support of the faculty and staff who do work in the open community. Our own Steve Jacobs, director of Open@RIT, and Mel Chua did the ...
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- Open and Online Educationby Heidi Ellis on January 10, 2021 at 4:08 pm
I really appreciate Bryan Behrenhausen. Bryan is a community architect in the Open Source Program Office at Red Hat. […]
- Open Source Community and Socially Distanced Educationby Heidi Ellis on December 29, 2020 at 11:11 pm
My Software Engineering class has come to a close and I’m turning my attention to the Capstone class this spring. The […]
- Leveraging COVID-19 in the Classroomby Heidi Ellis on July 12, 2020 at 6:46 pm
As the summer progresses, I’m finding a new rhythm to preparing my fall classes. It is clear that even though my […]
- Chatting with Studentsby Heidi Ellis on June 9, 2020 at 10:24 pm
The Western New England Center for Teaching and Learning is running a series of Zoom seminars on online tools that can […]
- 11th NSF Funded POSSE!by Heidi Ellis on March 31, 2019 at 9:50 pm
The foss2serve team hosted the 10th NSF-funded POSSE (Professors’ Open Source Software Experience) workshop in […]
- TOS Holds a Sprint to Develop FOSS Coursesby Greg Hislop on June 29, 2018 at 5:05 pm
A team of faculty involved with TeachingOpenSource (TOS) are working on four Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) […]