From Teaching Open Source
POSSE is a bootcamp sponsored by Red Hat designed to immerse computer science instructors in open source projects, with the commitment that each participating instructor bring their classes into open source project participation over the next school year. More details on the program are available at http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE.
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[edit] Join us!
There is no cost to attend a POSSE, though attendees are responsible for their own travel, lodging, and expenses. Place event registration link here.
More information for attendees (directions, hotel recommendations, parking/transport logistics, etc) is available at the link to attendees information page.
[edit] Resources
[edit] Press
Watch this space during POSSE week for coverage by the media.
[edit] Blogs
Watch this space during POSSE week for blog posts by POSSE participants and instructors!
[edit] Follow the POSSE
There are a number of spaces where POSSE participants interact aside from the physical <location> location.
- Wiki: this POSSE is using the TeachingOpenSource wiki space. Please feel free to edit any of these pages. If you're creating new pages, please prefix the page title with Name of POSSE (for instance, POSSE APAC).
- IRC: The channel on Freenode will be used for POSSE-specific IRC communication. Participants are encouraged to join the larger TeachingOpenSource community in the #teachingopensource as well.
- Mailing list: Join the teaching open source mailing list for discussion and ongoing session notes.
[edit] Event information
[edit] Sponsor
[edit] Dates
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[edit] Location
Location goes here, including address
[edit] Participants
[edit] Instructors
- Instructor name, affiliation
- Instructor name, affiliation
[edit] Attendees
Attendees for this POSSE are still being selected - if you're interested, please apply!
[edit] Topic Schedule
This schedule is flexible, but gives an idea of the agenda we will be covering.
| Theme: | Open | Source | Development | and | Teaching | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day: | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Morning A (~8:30-break) | Overview from 20000 feet - What Open Source is about; intro to the Fedora and Mozilla projects; our teaching model; learning plan for the week | Getting and building source - Obtaining source, build environment and tools, build systems, building | Using Bugzilla - Intro to Bugzilla, what is a bug?, bugzilla basics, writing a good bug/comment, review, bugmail
Submit Fedora packages for review. |
(Developing in Community Continued)
Debugging and testing - Debugging tools and techniques overview/ demo, debug and release builds, source servers, debuggers, stack traces |
Teaching Open Source - What we've learned, examination of the teaching techniques used through the week, and a look at the particular challenges of teaching within the community (e.g., grading, etc).
Wrap-up Session - What does your course look like? (presentations), spreading the flame, staying in touch, feedback. | |
| Morning B (break-12:00) | Community & Communication - How communication provides the 'Open'; F2F, synch and async communication; communication tools; synthetic third culture. | Developing in Community - Navigating/ searching, changing, testing, creating patches | Open Source Collaborative Development - Solving problems in a team. | |||
| Afternoon (1 - ~3 (will vary)) | IRC lab - Working with colleagues exclusively online | RPM Packaging Basics - What they are, how to use them, and how to create them | UI Bug - Altering/enhancing the user interface in Firefox, creating a patch, having it reviewed | Student Project Case Studies | ||
| Evening | Welcome - Welcome, Introductions/Icebreakers, Open Source overview, Plans for the Week
Notebook setup |
Overnight deliverable: Get online (Create accounts (FAS, Wiki, Blog, Planet, IRC); create a personal wiki page; try at least 3 IRC clients, pick one, blog about it, check that blog is on Planet POSSE) | Overnight deliverable: Create a package for Fedora. We'll get them into the review process on Wednesday. | Overnight deliverable: Push packages through review, review the UI lab patches. | BBQ Dinner with Open Source community members. |
[edit] Planning
Anyone is welcome to help organize and plan this POSSE. Please see Link to planning page for details.
The discussion so far has been captured in this IRC log from #teachingopensource.
13:55 < mwhitehe> So I want to create a self-sustaining _academic_ community that becomes kernel maintainers. they just need some help getting the expertise they need. 13:55 < mwhitehe> so I say, build it ourselves. 13:56 <@mchua> I'm not familiar with the current kernel dev community - are there any profs using it for their work? what are the on-ramps like? how do you folks get new contribs now? 13:56 <@mchua> iow, how much of a bridge do you think we'll have to build between what already exists, and the sorts of experiences and resources profs will need to get involved / get their students involved in the way you're envisioning? 13:56 < mwhitehe> I just need to know what Red Hat wants to get out of such an activity. The school (uat.edu) is very non-traditional and flexible. 13:57 <@mchua> mwhitehe: that's simple - more professors bringing their students into the open source community as participants, and ways of keeping in touch with those profs. 13:59 < mwhitehe> mchua: as for a bridge, I think we should go for younger profs (new PhD's) who haven't gotten into habitual teaching 14:08 <@mchua> mwhitehe: I've got to run, but - do you want to start out by working on a POSSE for something after this summer? or what's the first milestone you'd like to go for? 14:09 < mwhitehe> mchua: Greg D has to firm up what Red Hat wants to get out of this. Once I get that I can tailor the classwork to accomplish those goals. Also, we have to figure out how to pay for this (I'd like to be paid to teach, thank you) 14:12 <@mchua> mwhitehe: I have to run - pick this convo up on the email thread, maybe move portions of it to the TOS (teaching open source) list when we want feedback from other profs? 14:13 < mwhitehe> mchua: yeah, I may have to do a 50/50 kinda thing where I bill as a consultant for a half week, then fly into town to teach the other days. 14:13 < mwhitehe> mchua: okay, we'll resume soon