From Teaching Open Source

This is a workshop to introduce POSSE and Teaching Open Source to the education and general audience at SCALE 9x.

Status: Working on scheduling and location details.

Workshop coordinators:

• Karsten 'quaid' Wade

Contents 1 POSSE Workshop details 2 POSSE Info Session details 3 Schedule 3.1 Friday 3.2 Saturday 3.3 Sunday 4 Where 5 Curriculum

[edit] POSSE Workshop details

Three or more hours.

Time	Activity
0:00 - 0:30	POSSE introduction, Sugar background & focus
0:30 - 1:00	Secrets of beginning participation
1:00 - 1:30	Start playing with XO/get Sugar running on personal devices
1:30 - 3:00+	Follow described QA process (play, think, report)

[edit] POSSE Info Session details

One hour session.

Time	Activity
0:00 - 0:20	Introduction to POSSE and Teaching Open Source, Sugar background & focus
0:20 - 0:55	Q&A, freeform discussion

[edit] Schedule

[edit] Friday

• 4:30 pm to 5 pm :: POSSE Info Session. At end of Fedora Activity Day.
  • Location :: Fedora Activity Day (FAD) room.

[edit] Saturday

• 11:30 :: POSSE Info Session presented to Open Source Software in Education (OSSIE) session.
  • Location :: Open Source Software in Education (OSSIE) room.

[edit] Sunday

• 9 am to 10 am :: POSSE Info Session presented to anyone.
  • Location :: Open Source Software in Education (OSSIE) room.
• 10 am to 2:30 pm :: POSSE Workshop Participation portion includes hands-on with an OLPC XO-1, or running Sugar on your own laptop, and testing Sugar activities.
  • Location :: Open Source Software in Education (OSSIE) room.

[edit] Where

• Friday and Sunday in the workshop room used by OSSIE.
• Saturday in OSSIE room and another room TBD.

[edit] Curriculum

• TBD
  • Based on POSSE Curriculum
  • Using Sugar as the project to immerse in

Steps

1. Find area of Sugar to focus on
   1. Talk on #sugar to find an area that can take a test day
   2. Blog about it, "I'm going to have N newcomers with $background and $resources and $time and $these_people available to supervise, what can we do for you with this labor pool?"
2. Setup using Fedora test day format: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days
   • Write up test cases
   • Do some nice graphics, print it out