IRC Meetings/2009-03-24/IRC Log
From Teaching Open Source
| gkesden | try that again -- yo! | 11:05 |
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| gregdek | Our chairman is here! | 11:06 |
| humph | hi gkesden | 11:06 |
| mchua | gkesden: YAY! | 11:06 |
| azneita | yay! :D | 11:06 |
| ctyler | Excellent! | 11:06 |
| lh | gkesden: hello | 11:06 |
| gkesden | sorry -- embarassing -- I confused UTC | 11:06 |
| humph | s'ok | 11:06 |
| gkesden | Ciera saved me | 11:06 |
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| * ctyler high-fives Ciera | 11:07 | |
| humph | gkesden: so you're at cmu too, then? | 11:07 |
| gkesden | yes | 11:07 |
| humph | 10:27 * humph has been working with a couple of students from cmu on mozilla bugs, impressive guys. | 11:07 |
| * ctyler gives channel operator status to gkesden | 11:07 | |
| * ChanServ removes channel operator status from gkesden | 11:07 | |
| ciera | yes, thanks for that | 11:07 |
| gkesden | i work mostly with ugrad classes and labs here | 11:07 |
| ciera | those were students in my SE course | 11:08 |
| humph | they are doing good work, ciera | 11:08 |
| gkesden | as you can tell, i know the important people here | 11:08 |
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| gkesden | So, we've had a busy couple of weeks on the mailing list | 11:09 |
| gkesden | I'm curious to see if we've got a center of mass in terms of the priorities | 11:09 |
| gregdek | How do we whip it into a frenzy of activity? :) | 11:09 |
| ctyler | http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Category:Projects # Looks like 5 centres of mass shaping up (?) | 11:10 |
| * gregdek looks. | 11:11 | |
| * lazzurs clearly needs to write a wiki page | 11:11 | |
| lazzurs | or two | 11:11 |
| slef | hi - is this open floor or moderated or what? | 11:11 |
| lh | I've been having some success asking FOSS projects to list themselves as mentors. I'd like to see a few more folks on that list, but the next step would be matchmaking between those folks and professors. | 11:11 |
| * mchua has been slacking on journals, sorry... attack of the RSI took place, will try to fix late tonight | 11:11 | |
| ctyler | slef: gkesden is leading | 11:11 |
| gkesden | hahah | 11:11 |
| gkesden | Well, I'm looking at the moment | 11:12 |
| humph | lh: I'll add for Mozilla | 11:12 |
| lh | humph: thank you | 11:12 |
| ctyler | for quick reference by letter: [A] FOSS mentorship project (incl. gsoc overflow) [B] OSS directory project [C] OSS education papers in scholarly journals [D] Teaching materials project (cataloging) [E] Teaching Open Source Summit | 11:13 |
| gkesden | so, i guess the thing that is of biggest interest to me, personally, is how we successfully get oss into the curriculum | 11:13 |
| gkesden | I | 11:14 |
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| gkesden | My intuition is that the biggest challenge is getting instructors comfortable with projects | 11:14 |
| lazzurs | gkesden: to be clear are you talking about university level there? | 11:14 |
| ctyler | +1 on getting instructors comfortable | 11:14 |
| gkesden | both | 11:14 |
| lh | gkesden: agreed. i think finding local FOSS mentors for them will help a great deal. | 11:15 |
| gregdek | Send profs to RH POSSE, pls. :) | 11:15 |
| ctyler | gregdek: any applications for POSSE yet? | 11:15 |
| gkesden | i think hs teachers right now, in some cases, are more motivated, but also more isolated | 11:15 |
| dlavigne1 | marketing what is already happening is good, we often don't know who is doing what | 11:15 |
| gregdek | ctyler: Many questions, but no official applications. | 11:15 |
| gkesden | it also occurs to me at the secondary level that the loss of AP AB is both a loss and an opportunity | 11:16 |
| ctyler | AP AB? | 11:16 |
| lazzurs | gkesden: agreed all of the teachers I have spoke to are very motivated but lacking guidence on where to go next. | 11:16 |
| gkesden | motivated secondary students and teachers are presently homeless | 11:16 |
| lh | ctyler: you mentioned yesterday you were going to write about TOS for the O'Reilly Radar. that's certainly a great start. | 11:16 |
| slef | ctyler++ (btw what agenda point are we on?) | 11:16 |
| gkesden | the second ap course got nuked | 11:16 |
| ciera | yikes | 11:16 |
| * gregdek has a question: what's the diff between: | 11:17 | |
| gregdek | http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/OSS_Directory_Project | 11:17 |
| gregdek | and | 11:17 |
| gkesden | so, on the first point of the agenda about teaching materials | 11:17 |
| gregdek | http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Teaching_Materials_Project | 11:17 |
| gregdek | ? | 11:17 |
| gkesden | presenting them with a structure that is easy to adopt is essential | 11:18 |
| mchua | lazzurs: can we point them towards the 5 projects on tos? are the people there ready to harness newcomers? | 11:18 |
| ctyler | I think OSS_Directory_Project was to be a catalog of successful projects, Teaching_Materials_Project was to be a catalog of (remixable?) teaching materials | 11:18 |
| gkesden | for example, well-known skill-building and familiarization exercises before real bugs and features | 11:18 |
| lh | ctyler: that's my understanding from Ross | 11:19 |
| gregdek | gkesden: Seems like the strategy is to identify as many available materials as possible, and then fill gaps. If, after an assessment, we feel that skill-building exercises are missing, we add them. | 11:19 |
| ctyler | gkesden: I think there are two skillsets here, and both are a challenge to first learn and then teach. The first is operating at scale (large projects, real world) and the second is operating in community. | 11:20 |
| gkesden | yes, yes | 11:20 |
| * gregdek wonders if it's useful to build a basic curriculum framework first, or to get the fullest possible assessment of available materials first, or to do them in parallel? | 11:20 | |
| * ctyler votes parallel | 11:21 | |
| gkesden | gregdek: My own intuition would be to start with one or two, turn the wheel, and see what is learned | 11:21 |
| gregdek | "start with one or two..." clarify? | 11:22 |
| gkesden | if we take one or two projects and provide really good ramps, we can put a lot of effort into them | 11:22 |
| rossand | In the context of TOS, I'd like to suggest it makes sense to catalog projects that are actively engaged in teaching. For example: seeking mentors/interns or producing/distributing teaching materials. I'm not sure there's need to produce a galactic encyclopedia of FOSS. | 11:22 |
| gkesden | we can also learn a bunch | 11:22 |
| gkesden | if they are widely adopted, even a couple of projects can have a huge impact | 11:23 |
| gkesden | I also think it is easier to market one or two than a menu | 11:23 |
| lazzurs | gregdek: well the way I have started working is to match up the goals in the the curriculum with what we can provide from the open source developement model | 11:24 |
| lh | so, we have the work that ralph et al. are doing with hfoss, and the OpenMRS project has already put together a curriculum to train developers in rwanda. http://blog.openmrs.org/?p=93 | 11:24 |
| ciera | what courses are these resources aimed at? courses specifically on oss, or general courses that can use oss as part of the existing curriculum? | 11:24 |
| gregdek | rossand: My only concern is that if we provide a bunch of materials without context, already overburden profs won't have a context to start with -- whereas a basic curriculum framework, and I mean *basic*, would be: 1. what is a patch? 2. what is revision control? and so forth. | 11:25 |
| lh | seems like a great deal of work has already been done for this one project, which has the added benefit of appeal from a humanitarian angle. | 11:25 |
| ctyler | gkesden: still trying to understand "one or two projects" -- is that one or two courses? one or two open source projects that we build courses around? one or two schools? | 11:25 |
| gkesden | ih: which one? | 11:25 |
| lh | gregdek: how intensive would such a beginner's course need to be to be effective | 11:25 |
| lh | gkesden: openmrs = open medical record system project, for use in the developing world, mostly javva | 11:26 |
| lazzurs | gregdek: why not match up the teaching materials you are looking to provide with the requirements of the courses you are targeting? | 11:26 |
| rossand | gregdek: Agreed. That was where I was headed. Focus rather than a very broad scope makes sense. There is a risk of course... | 11:26 |
| gkesden | ctyler: one or two open source projects for which we establish ramps. Exercises to help students become comfortable with the scale, in particular | 11:26 |
| mchua | also, the tos pages mention oss in the context of non-cs curriculums - business, sociology, etc... is that an interest/focus of anyone here or is it back burner while the sw development stuff gets underway? | 11:26 |
| rossand | How do we decide what to focus on or not? i.e. picking one project over another. | 11:26 |
| gkesden | il: thx | 11:26 |
| lh | mchua: i am very interested in that but think we should nail down the SW side of things first. | 11:27 |
| gregdek | My take: any project that has a leader, who is committed to leading and making things happen, will make progress. | 11:27 |
| ctyler | gkesden, lh: the concern with focusing on one or two open source projects is that it's too easy to overwhelm the project. If we try similar things across more projects, it scales better. | 11:27 |
| lh | rossand: i think choosing a project that already has some academic support behind it would be helpful. fewer barriers to overcome, some academics already sold. | 11:27 |
| lazzurs | mchua: for me that is something that we are working on from the start as it is a requirement of the curriculum here | 11:28 |
| rossand | lh: agreed. Good point. | 11:28 |
| gkesden | rossand: mozilla seems to have a huge effort. If there is one with clearly non-computer humanitarian goals, that might be good, too. | 11:28 |
| lh | ctyler: agreed, but if we have a proven model we can use adapt it for use with other projects. | 11:28 |
| gkesden | well, I think all of us need to run interference for the projects we pick | 11:28 |
| gregdek | Fedora, Mozilla, and the HFOSS projects are already doing this stuff. | 11:28 |
| lh | gkesden: completely agreed. | 11:28 |
| rossand | gregdek: Sounds like the "let many flowers bloom approach" with a natural expectation that projects already doing work will tend to emerge more quickly - agreeing with lh. | 11:29 |
| gregdek | Yeah, I think that's right. | 11:29 |
| gkesden | if we can put together good structure, teach the tools, exercises with the code, and the community can support it | 11:29 |
| gkesden | gregdek: whmmm. I'm wondering how much, for example, Mozilla can bloom without more help | 11:30 |
| mchua | lazzurs: will ping you on that after meeting - definitely want to hear more. :) | 11:30 |
| ctyler | humph and I have been wondering if it makes sense for schools to develop faculty expertise in specific projects, and to network between the schools to cross-collaborate. E.g., for Moz stuff, students from any school can interface with humph@seneca, for Apache stuff, $x@$y, for Gnome, $a@$b, etc | 11:30 |
| ctyler | virtualize this a bit | 11:30 |
| gregdek | ctyler: I think that if we set up the structure appropriately, that kind of thing will just happen. | 11:30 |
| * lh agrees with gregdek | 11:31 | |
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| gregdek | fardad! | 11:31 |
| fardad | Hello... | 11:31 |
| lazzurs | agreed, the issue is getting the students and teachers aware of the facilities available to them in the community once you have all of the materials in place | 11:31 |
| gkesden | ciera: you're playing -- your thoughts? | 11:31 |
| lh | perhaps the best use of the FOSS mentor projects directory [A] is to ask those projects to teach professors the "basics" of FOSS - the what is a patch, what is bug, how to use an issue tracker | 11:31 |
| ciera | well, I think faculty contacts will help a lot | 11:32 |
| mchua | I put down #3 and #4 on the agenda http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/IRC_Meetings/2009-03-24/Agenda to start the "that kind of thing will just happen" ball that gregdek and lh mentioned rolling, if folks think that would be useful now | 11:32 |
| ciera | having a mentor on the project helped our students | 11:32 |
| mchua | # | 11:32 |
| mchua | # Plans for 09-10 school year, and activities over the summer to prep? (Go around the circle) | 11:32 |
| mchua | # Problems encountering that you would like the metabrain to ponder, and tips/expertise you can share? (Go around the circle) | 11:32 |
| lh | after these initial lessons, we could help these professors engage with a FOSS project that is appropriate to their needs in the classroom. | 11:32 |
| ciera | yes, that's basically what we do now | 11:33 |
| ciera | students enter the projects with basic information on software process | 11:33 |
| ciera | the main goal is to get them to engage with other developers and dive into a large codebase | 11:33 |
| lh | ciera: wonderful, but i was referring to teaching professors who may not have that domain expertise. | 11:33 |
| lh | agreed that both groups need mentoring. | 11:34 |
| ciera | I think what we need to know though is what their goals are | 11:34 |
| ciera | why would they want to use OSS? | 11:34 |
| lazzurs | ciera: indeed there has to be something in this for the tutors/teachers as well as the students | 11:35 |
| ctyler | I agree that teach-the-teacher is needed, but otoh, why is no one signed up for POSSE? | 11:35 |
| lh | ciera: that would really depend on the individual prof. i can imagine having someone help you write a new curriculum or offer a new type of course is good motivation. | 11:35 |
| gkesden | ciera: real world experience, external validation, path that doesn't end with graduation, tools and process, community | 11:36 |
| lh | ctyler: i suspect the poor economy has a lot to do with it. | 11:36 |
| gkesden | ciera: most of all, effort=something broadly useful when done | 11:37 |
| lazzurs | ciera: in my case it is un the US and not the UK AFAIK | 11:37 |
| lh | perhaps we are putting the cart before the proverbial horse. would it be more useful for us to start with a document/video that sells professors on the value of teaching open source, pointing them to tos for further support and mentoring? | 11:37 |
| slef | ok, I'll bite: what's POSSE? | 11:37 |
| lh | slef: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Professors_Open_Source_Summer_Experience | 11:37 |
| lazzurs | lh: exactly | 11:37 |
| lazzurs | I have been using the Stephen Fry video recently for just that to show why FOSS is a good thing(tm) | 11:38 |
| rossand | ctyler: lh: Is there danger that some events are perceived as vendor-specific? | 11:38 |
| mchua | well, who's the target for posse? profs who have heard about this oss thing but don't know how to teach it, is my guess. | 11:38 |
| lazzurs | but something along similar lines explaining why it would be a good thing to them would be even better | 11:38 |
| lh | rossand: possible, but i am not sure how much that would stave off prof. interest. | 11:39 |
| slef | I'm guessing that Clemson Uni isn't in the EU, so that's why no profs I know would be signed up. | 11:39 |
| mchua | that's a huge chasm to cross, from my limited experience. | 11:39 |
| gregdek | If all of the profs are in Europe, I'd hold it in Europe. srsly. | 11:39 |
| gkesden | who is involved at clemson? | 11:39 |
| lh | can the educators here comment on continuing education requirements for profs? maybe the lack of interest is because such a workshop does not meet those requirements. | 11:39 |
| gregdek | Right now, the goal is to get the thing off the ground. :) | 11:39 |
| gregdek | gkesden: A local user group that can get us space, cheap. | 11:39 |
| mchua | why would i want to teach it, I don't know how, am i going to get support after posse because how can I possibly learn everything needed to navigate this new world in a week, how did others do it, etc. | 11:40 |
| lazzurs | gregdek: I should be able to fill a room with teachers soon in the UK | 11:40 |
| gkesden | gregdek: 'k, my alma mater, was on the faculty for a bit | 11:40 |
| gregdek | gkesden: Hm. We should talk. :) | 11:40 |
| gregdek | lazzurs: Maybe we should talk as well. | 11:40 |
| * lh is sensing that a "why teaching open source in your classroom is a good thing(tm)" communications strategy is needed | 11:40 | |
| gkesden | gregdek: plenty of friends over there | 11:40 |
| lazzurs | lh: indeed | 11:40 |
| ctyler | It seems incredible to me that there aren't more faculty that realize that open source is here to stay and on the way to dominance in our industry. | 11:41 |
| gregdek | Here's the thing: the goal is to get *any* professor workshop going, for as cheap as possible. | 11:41 |
| slef | lh: I'm thinking that some market research is needed to sense anything but ICBW and it may already exist. | 11:41 |
| mchua | lh: what i'd actually love is for the profs here to write their getting-started stories - from "I didn't know what OSS was" to "and now I'm teaching it." | 11:41 |
| gregdek | Something to say "hey, we did it, and it was awesome, and here are REAL PROFS who took it, and we're gonna do it again!" | 11:41 |
| gkesden | ctyler: don't think that is the barrier, many faculty don't care about industrial cs, oss or otherwise | 11:41 |
| lh | gregdek: i think you need to start issuing invitations to specific people who are interested, use the time to develop some case studies too | 11:42 |
| humph | what I don't get is that if you teach software, and you want to show your students real software, open source is really the best way, leaving alone the issues of "open" as open. | 11:42 |
| humph | I think profs don't do it because they are scared of it | 11:42 |
| slef | Do we have any market research? Maybe as a by-product of past work by others groups? | 11:42 |
| humph | it's bloody big and complicated vs. some toy thing you can use term ater term | 11:43 |
| lh | humph: this argues for case studies. if another professor is doing this, clearly it is accessible. useful. :) | 11:43 |
| humph | I'm doing it, it can be done | 11:43 |
| gregdek | humph is dead right. | 11:43 |
| ctyler | Our hour is 2/3rds up, can I raise the question of how we're going to proceed going forward? I'd like to suggest that we need a leader for each subproject to organize that project and get it going, and that the subprojects should give an update at the monthly conference calls. | 11:43 |
| slef | please can we do research before collecting case studies? | 11:43 |
| gkesden | it is also easier to cook up something static than to learn something big and dynamic | 11:43 |
| mchua | would the profs in here be willing to do an interview over IRC to get the case study stuff out, if it's not already? | 11:44 |
| humph | gkesden: and less useful, imho | 11:44 |
| gkesden | slef: what specific questions? | 11:44 |
| slef | found http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/vre-report.xml | 11:44 |
| gkesden | humph: agreed | 11:44 |
| * humph notes that Mozilla/Creative Commons are doing a case study on our course here starting soon - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/EduCourse | 11:44 | |
| slef | gkesden: I don't have specific questions. General topic seems to be "what's stopping you teaching FOSS?" | 11:44 |
| mchua | humph: do you already have a "my story" out there I've missed? if not i'd love to get some braindumps from you and the other profs here on irc and clean them up into postable things | 11:44 |
| lh | slef: we have some decent anecdotal evidence gathered from educators at a few conferences | 11:45 |
| humph | mchua: ctyler has a good paper on this - http://chris.tylers.info/ols2008/opensource-seneca-ols2008.pdf | 11:45 |
| gregdek | slef: Exactly! And the anecdotal evidence that lh refers to shows some very strong trends, that we think are actionable. | 11:45 |
| humph | mchua: I can talk to you about it, sure | 11:45 |
| lh | ctyler suggested we assign project leaders and figure out next steps in the next 15 minutes, +1 to that | 11:46 |
| * gregdek agrees with ctyler, +1 | 11:46 | |
| mchua | humph: ooh, nice framework, thanks! | 11:46 |
| slef | anecdotes are insightful, but they're not data and should be built on | 11:46 |
| mchua | humph: will ping post meeting. | 11:46 |
| mchua | ctyler +1 | 11:46 |
| slef | ctyler +1 | 11:47 |
| ctyler | volunteers then? :-) | 11:47 |
| lh | i'm happy to lead the cataloging of projects who are willing to mentor students and educators [A] | 11:47 |
| ctyler | excellent! Need leaders for [B] OSS directory project [C] OSS education papers in scholarly journals [D] Teaching materials project (cataloging) [E] Teaching Open Source Summit | 11:48 |
| gregdek | I'm happy to drive [D]. | 11:48 |
| lazzurs | ctyler: I am willing to help with D as I am going to be doing this anyhoo | 11:48 |
| lazzurs | gregdek: excellent :) | 11:48 |
| lh | gregdek: will be happy to help you with D also. | 11:48 |
| gregdek | ALthough I think that [B] and [D] are perhaps strongly related, and may end up subsuming B. :) | 11:49 |
| dlavigne1 | I'll help with C | 11:49 |
| gregdek | s/help with/lead? :) | 11:50 |
| dlavigne1 | I think mchua is leading | 11:50 |
| ctyler | And I think Ross Gardler was up for B | 11:50 |
| gregdek | mchua: Are you leading [C]? | 11:50 |
| lh | ctyler: correct. ross is at apachecon eu this week, but he mentioned on list that he wanted to drive B. | 11:50 |
| ctyler | I need someone to run with D, I'll liase with that group for FSOSS logistics | 11:50 |
| ctyler | Sorry, I mean E | 11:51 |
| gkesden | So, no one is stepping up to E. I'm happy to do that. But, I'm not the most connected member,myself | 11:51 |
| gregdek | Will [E] be held at Seneca, or do we know yet? | 11:51 |
| gkesden | but, absent other volunteers, I can run with it | 11:51 |
| ctyler | gregdek: We're good for the first [E] to be held at Seneca, and hope there will be more elsewhere. | 11:52 |
| * ctyler steps out (late!) to go teach, will read logs later | 11:52 | |
| * lh waves goodbye to ctyler | 11:52 | |
| jsmith | ctyler: Would [E] include teaching open source outside of a higher-education environment? | 11:52 |
| humph | jsmith: what do you have in mind? | 11:53 |
| gregdek | Clearly lower education. ;) | 11:53 |
| jsmith | humph: I teach classes on open-source Asterisk for a living | 11:53 |
| humph | I'm not sure that's the same thing, but others can correct me | 11:53 |
| slef | can we query projects now, here, later, elsewhere? Like why does [D] settle for "open licence" and not a FOSS licence? There are already several things under open licences but they seem to struggle | 11:54 |
| gkesden | slef: that seems like a big discussion | 11:54 |
| humph | slef: honestly, the "F" argument is not what's happening here | 11:54 |
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| humph | you can find plenty of places for it, I'd encourage you to have it elsewhere | 11:54 |
| gregdek | slef: I would rather gather as many materials as possible, and categorize them so that people can make their own choices. | 11:55 |
| gregdek | There are many materials that profs have made available without any license at all, for instance. | 11:55 |
| mchua|xo | Argh, sorry folks - computer making me take an rsi break | 11:55 |
| gregdek | Bye Mel. *hugs* | 11:55 |
| slef | humph: I mean, whether we settle for reproducible or aim for reusable/modifiable somehow... | 11:55 |
| slef | gregdek: so it's cataloguing/gathering, not production? | 11:55 |
| gregdek | slef: It's both. But it starts with cataloguing/gathering. | 11:56 |
| gregdek | Both are necessary. | 11:56 |
| lh | mchua|xo: be well. | 11:56 |
| gkesden | okay -- so, licensing aside -- what else can we achieve right now? | 11:56 |
| mchua|xo | gregdek: nah, I just booted an xo instead :) | 11:56 |
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| dlavigne1 | there are many existing oer resources available | 11:56 |
| dlavigne1 | oer==open educational resource | 11:56 |
| mchua|xo | (the mchua acct is on the laptop with the locked kbd) | 11:56 |
| humph | my work to develop such material will continue at Mozilla/Seneca, but linking to if seems a good idea (vs. trying to move it all here) | 11:57 |
| gregdek | Ayup. | 11:57 |
| gregdek | If it's a big link farm, that's fine, so long as it's (a) current, (b) well-categorized, (c) easy to find, and (d) easy to use. | 11:57 |
| slef | gkesden: did anyone answer # Is there interest in a weekly list summary? Mchua | 11:58 |
| gregdek | Oh, yes! | 11:58 |
| lh | dlavigne1: there are many. i think it would be helpful to have FOSS projects evaluate the resources for usefulness for their individual projects | 11:58 |
| slef | from http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/IRC_Meetings/2009-03-24/Agenda | 11:58 |
| gkesden | slef: No answer, but I think there is | 11:58 |
| gregdek | We should probably have every leader reporting weekly to the list about progress. | 11:58 |
| mchua|xo | I'll be reading and summarizing the mailing list archives so far tonight, since I need to catch up too... don't know that I can keep it up but there will be at least one ;) | 11:59 |
| slef | should we document that it's expected of leaders and check they're ok with that? | 11:59 |
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| mchua|xo | +1 to gregdek! | 11:59 |
| lh | gregdek: +1 | 11:59 |
| slef | mchua|xo: thanks. I'm feeling a bit snowed by the TOS list. | 12:00 |
| gregdek | It's a big 'un. :) | 12:00 |
| mchua | I'll take a run through the journals [C] conversation and summarize it to the list tonight, and see if it is something I can run with further depending on the direction that takes. If not, I'll find a successor. | 12:00 |
| dlavigne1 | mchua: if you can't, I can lead | 12:00 |
| mchua | (now that my laptop is unlocked and I can read the backlog and reply belatedly.) | 12:00 |
| mchua | dlavigne1: YAY! | 12:00 |
| dlavigne1 | mchua: we can touch base later | 12:01 |
| mchua | dlavigne1: yep. | 12:01 |
| slef | small request: try to link the wiki project pages to the summary mails, please. | 12:01 |
| * slef is cheeky | 12:01 | |
| gkesden | lesse', what loose ends are left for now? | 12:02 |
| mchua | slef: good idea! feel free to yell at me if I forget that in the first summary round and I'll fix it (but I'll try to remember). | 12:03 |
| mchua | gkesden: next meeting time? | 12:03 |
| slef | mchua: I'll try to remember but my memory is fried and I've no resources for TOS yet ;-) | 12:03 |
| gkesden | we've got a concall monday | 12:03 |
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| gregdek | WHEN IS MY REPORT DUE, BOSS? | 12:04 |
| gkesden | do we want to follow-up with an irc later in the week? wednesday or thursday? | 12:04 |
| slef | gkesden: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/TOS_Conference_Call suggests monday week. Is it wrong? | 12:04 |
| * humph lives on irc, will be happy to chat with people whenever | 12:04 | |
| gkesden | slef: Nope! I am | 12:04 |
| * lh seconds humph | 12:05 | |
| gkesden | How about we do this again tuesday? | 12:05 |
| slef | humph: catch you after the meeting? | 12:05 |
| lazzurs | heh I guess we all do then | 12:05 |
| humph | slef: I'm here | 12:05 |
| humph | gkesden: I'll happily join if you want to meet next tues, sure | 12:06 |
| slef | I think I'm out of office, but I've no resources, so go ahead and I'll read logs. | 12:06 |
| gkesden | who is in for next week, same time? | 12:06 |
| * mchua cheers for logs | 12:07 | |
| lh | +1 same time next week, same bat channel | 12:07 |
| * gregdek likes this time. | 12:07 | |
| slef | finally got answer from calendar server - I'm 50-50 | 12:07 |
| mchua | +1 same time same place (though I may be traveling next week, but can usually make this time) | 12:07 |
| dlavigne1 | +1 | 12:07 |
| gkesden | okay -- let's do it again next week and see what evolves on email between now and then | 12:09 |
| gkesden | exciting stuff! | 12:09 |
| humph | thanks for leading, gkesden | 12:09 |
| lh | gkesden: yes, thank you. | 12:09 |
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| gkesden | thanks ya'll | 12:09 |
| slef | thanks gkesden | 12:09 |