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POSSE California #1: sometime-in-may, CS focus, Mel teaching, Alolita, Karsten, $some_professor(s) learning how to teach

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Contents 1 Current status 2 Meeting minutes 2.1 Agenda 3 Sponsorship 4 Instructors 5 Syllabus planning 5.1 Monday 5.2 Tuesday 5.3 Wednesday 5.4 Thursday 5.5 Friday

[edit] Current status

We are definitely go for POSSE CA. We have a hosting commitment from the Silicon Valley campus of CMU.

There will be one. (Not two.) It will be CS-focused.

We'll use Fedora as a foundation, but if Alolita can get a Mozilla person in for a week (or someone from another project, etc) we'll tilt the flavor that way to get some diversity into the projects with POSSE experiences.

Date: July or August - Alolita will be picking the date with Tony Wasserman (of CMU) when Tony gets back on the continent at the end of the month, we'll know by April 1st.

Room: everyone will bring their own laptops (laptop cart == bonus points, so we can install stuff ahead of time and attendees don't have to worry about it), room needs movable tables + chairs, whiteboards, projector.

Next check-in: Monday, 8am CA time, 11am BOS time, #teachingopensource.

One thing we didn't bring up, in case it matters: attendance cap I'd like to set at 30, since there are 3 of us we can handle a larger class than normal.

[edit] Meeting minutes

Our next meeting will be 19:00-20:00 UTC in #teachingopensource.

• 2009-12-17
• 2009-12-03

[edit] Agenda

For our next meeting.

• Location confirmed?
• Dates: Early start (May) for CS POSSE is OK, drifting into June is less OK if Mel needs to come to CA. Is pushing later in the summer for the Design POSSE an option?
• #Sponsorship
• teaching load: sit down and divide things up, adjusting syllabus as needed
• Participant recruitment: Once back, Karsten and Alolita can meet with profs at various campuses for them to participate. We should put together a list of campuses

[edit] Sponsorship

• Instructor costs: RH
• Location costs:
• Equipment/VMs:
• Attendee costs: Attendees (do we have an estimate for lodging etc. they'll have to find or cover?)
• Thursday dinner: RH
• Sunday mixer:
• Swag: RH
• Writing and sending press release: Collaborative Gobby sprint, then take to our respective PR departments
• Managing media/publicity during the event
• Documentation during/after the event:
• Recruitment of professors:
• Recruitment of guests:

[edit] Instructors

• Mel Chua
• Alolita Sharma (first-time)
• Karsten Wade (first-time)

[edit] Syllabus planning

This is a draft. Please feel free to edit.

[edit] Monday

• What is Open Source - Alolita
• Our teaching/learning model for the week - Mel
• Communication tools - Karsten
• IRC/wiki lab - Karsten

[edit] Tuesday

• Getting and building source -
• RPM packaging basics - Mel and Karsten
• Packaging lab - Mel and Karsten

[edit] Wednesday

• Bugzilla basics -
• Searching and patching code - Karsten
• Bugfixing lab -

[edit] Thursday

• Debugging and testing -
• Collaborative development (all of the above... in a team!) -
• Student project case studies - Mel
• BBQ dinner

[edit] Friday

• Teaching Open Source: taking this back to your schools - Mel