POSSE Followup

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Still a draft, but an actionable one (starting to execute on this plan right now - however, feedback and modifications and course corrections are very, very, very much needed.). Names are folks who are accountable for making it happen, not necessarily the ones who'll ultimately do it. I have a vested interest in getting as much of this off my shoulders as possible, so if you're interested in helping, please let me know. ;-) Mchua 14:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] Professors

  • Get class syllabi for all POSSE profs' (and instructors') classes linked from the wiki, including number of students if possible (Mel)
  • Get other TOS activities POSSE profs are doing linked from the wiki (Mel)
  • Thank you letters for everybody! (Mel)
  • Write thank-you letters to deans of POSSE profs (Greg)

[edit] Press and Presence

  • Wikipost list of articles written on POSSE (Mel)
  • Write article for Educause Quarterly (Mel)
  • Write SIGCSE experience report (Mel)
  • Prepare SIGCSE presentation (Mel)
  • Wikipost brainstorm list of papers that should be written about POSSE (Mel)
  • Generate list of potentially receptive administrators and groups we'd like to target (Mel)
  • Make a POSSE event happen at TOSS (Mel)
  • Make a POSSE presence happen at FUDCon (Mel)
  • Get TOS Textbook written and tied-in to POSSE (Greg)

[edit] Sales

  • Wikipost teaching/research/service benefits for professors who participate in POSSE (Mel)
  • Get thoughts from professors on what collateral or actions would help them - and us - pitch POSSE more effectively to academics (Mel)

[edit] Documentation

  • Wikipost list of POSSE participant blogposts (Mel)
  • Edit videos (Mel)
  • Post videos online (Mel)
  • Make videos available via hardcopy mail for folks who don't want to download 120GB of files (Mel)
  • Send short video clips to Red Hat's Brand group so they can help us make the shiny stuff (Mel)
  • Get all class/student blogs online and aggregated (Mel)
  • Publicly publish this POSSE's budget so folks can see how much it cost exactly (Greg)

[edit] Results

  • Gather initial round of qualitative feedback before the school year hits (Mel)
  • Gather baseline/end-of-term survey data for professors on their students' participation in OSS (Mel)
  • Articulate and advertise projects, like working on EKG/Stats, for interested students who want to help research OSS participation more rigorously (Mel)

[edit] Survey

See POSSE Survey

[edit] POSSE In A Box

Make POSSE a physical product to give folks something more concrete to wrap their heads around - all the supplies and materials needed to teach a POSSe, in a Box. (All supplies and materials will be open and freely available online, of course, and people can assemble their own kits - but this will give folks an easy way to pay for materials to be shipped to them all-at-once, and give us a concrete deliverable and date to engage them around.) This thinking is a draft, and could likely benefit a great deal from discussion and revision.

Prototype deadline: November 1, 2009

  • After documentation materials are done, figure out what else needs to be put in POSSE In A Box (Mel)
  • Figure out what the physical materials for POSSE In A Box will cost (Mel)

[edit] Future POSSEs

  • Write up a recruitment plan (Mel)
  • POSSE Marketing? (Mel)
  • POSSE Project Management? (Mel)
  • POSSE Technical Writing? (Mel)
    • Figure out location(s) - Allegheny? Seneca? (Mel)
    • Talk with O'Reilly? (Greg)
    • Talk with FLOSSManuals on their public list (Greg)
    • Talk with writingopensource.com (Mel)
    • Find professors who can teach this, and figure out what scaffolding and resources they need (Mel)
    • Find community members who can be OSS subject matter experts, and figure out what scaffolding and resources they need (Mel)
  • POSSE Educational Games?
    • Figure out location(s) - maybe CMU, RIT... (Greg)
  • POSSE Singapore? (Greg)
    • Identify profs (and send them document list, below)
    • Budget
    • Agenda
    • Objectives and Deliverables
    • Review of 1st POSSE
    • Potential follow up paths
  • POSSE Europe? (Greg)
  • Would HFOSS projects like to host a POSSE? (Greg)

[edit] Receptive schools

  • Seneca, of course
  • Allegheny + consortium, via Matt Jadud (for tech writing + let's start from CS and branch into the humanities) - Mel keeping track of this
  • Cam Seay's project management students (spring semester)
  • Maybe CMU? (Who's talking with them?)
  • RIT (Steve Jacobs and Math4) - maybe Karlie can help identify more schools, too
  • Others?

[edit] POSSE Singapore

November 9-13 (Harish)

[edit] Calendar

For easy reference - all these things are listed above.

[edit] August

Goal: gather materials to show "we did it!"

  • Documentation materials
  • First draft of POSSE In A Box
  • Baseline survey

[edit] September

Goal: show "we did it!"

  • Writing
  • Presenting
  • Recruiting
  • TOS Textbook writing

[edit] October

Goal: gather materials to support "it scales!"

  • TOS Textbook finishing/polishing
  • TOSS
  • Initial concept of what POSSE presence @ FUDCon might look like.

[edit] November

Goal: show "it scales!"

  • POSSE In A Box first draft is done!
  • POSSE Technical Writing?
  • POSSE Educational Games?
  • Finalize POSSE presence @ FUDCon.

[edit] December

Goal: gather materials to support "you can do it too!"

  • End-of-term survey
  • FUDCon

[edit] Later

Goal: show "you can do it too!"

  • SIGCSE
  • CSEET
  • Other upcoming events? Please add!
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