This is a first pass at trying to keep a portfolio of the university activities that are happening around Teaching Open Source, with data and valuable statistics for each university. Right now, it's a portfolio of grants that Red Hat has given educational institutions to pursue activities related to Teaching Open Source, and we're using this as background data to figure out our grant process.

Schools listed in alphabetical order.

Template University

Background

• Link to school's homepage
• Link school's location ("directions to campus" or similar)
• Link to school's statistics page
• When did the relationship with this university start, and where did it come from?

TOS participants

• Name, linked to wiki userpage (title)
• Name, linked to wiki userpage (title)
• Link to POSSE alumni section

Projects in progress

• Follow the work of actual students at http://ucosp.wordpress.com/ - (Funded $2.5k from Red Hat for stipends in FY2010, other sponsors chipping in as well.)

Results

List both triumphs and failures here, so we can learn.

• See stories on http://ucosp.wordpress.com/.

CMU

Background

• CMU homepage
• Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• About CMU - 11,000 students, 4,000 faculty and staff.
• When did the relationship with this university start, and where did it come from?

TOS participants

No POSSE alumni yet.

• Ciera Jaspan (ciera) ciera at cmu dot edu - PhD candidate in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
• Gregory Kesden (gkesden) gregory.kesden at cmu dot edu - teaching faculty at Carnegie Mellon University

Projects in progress

• Red Hat Software Freedom Lab (computer lab running Fedora) in Bill Gates building ($100k from Red Hat for equipment/maintenance, over 4 years, FY10, 11, 12, 13)

Results

List both triumphs and failures here, so we can learn.

• Opening of Red Hat Software Freedom lab in Bill Gates Computer Science building.

RIT

Background

• Rochester Institute of Technology homepage
• Rochester, NY, USA
• 14,045 undergrads, 2,728 grad students, 1450 faculty
• working largely with the Center for Student Innovation
• When did the relationship with this university start, and where did it come from?

TOS participants

No POSSE alumni yet.

• Stephen Jacobs (Associate Professor)
• Remy DeCausemaker (Innovation Fellow)
• Karlie Robinson (Fedora Ambassador and local LUG member)
• Fred Grose (local Sugar Labs community member)

Projects in progress

• Almost certainly will host a 2010 POSSE RIT.
• Teaching a class on open source development working with [ http://teachingopensource.com/index.php/RIT/Honors_Seminar local Fedora community members in TOS]. ($4k investment from Red Hat, FY2010.)
• Full-time open source person on campus, Remy DeCausemaker
• Open source co-ops continuing to operate this winter, slated for this coming summer

Results

List both triumphs and failures here, so we can learn.

• Open source co-op on Sugar Labs summer '09, which included a field trip to Red Hat's Westford office

Seneca

Background

• Seneca College, York campus
• Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Over 100,000 students (from wikipedia, better citation needed)
• working largely with Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT)
• When did the relationship with this university start, and where did it come from?

TOS participants

• Chris Tyler (Professor, Fedora Board member, instructor at POSSE 2009
• David Humphrey (Professor, Mozilla Educational Liason, instructor at POSSE 2009
• Fardad Soleimanloo (Professor, participant at POSSE 2009)

Projects in progress

None with active investments at the moment, but see CDOT's homepage for the great things that the center (started in part with our initial investment) continues to do.

Results

List both triumphs and failures here, so we can learn.

• FY2010: Secured $20k of matching funding from Canadian government for Center for the Development of Open Technology (CDOT).
• FY2009: CDOT begins. ($50k in startup funds from Red Hat) where did the rest of the funding come from? I'm guessing Seneca...

UCOSP

Background

• Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects initiative
• 9 universities in Canada and US:
  • University of Alberta
  • Université de Laval
  • Michigan State University
  • Minnesota State University
  • Simon Fraser University
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of Toronto
  • University of the Virgin Islands
  • University of Waterloo
• This relationship came directly from TOS; it was formed at the Teaching Open Source Summit.

TOS participants

No POSSE alumni yet.

• Greg Wilson (Assistant Professor, Dept. of CS, University of Toronto)

Projects in progress

• See student blogs on their projects for more information. (Red Hat sponsored $2.5k in FY2010 for stipends, as did several other sponsors.)

Results

List both triumphs and failures here, so we can learn.

• See student blogs on their projects for more information.

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