SIGCSE 2018 POSSE Roundup
February 21, 2018 - Baltimore, MD
NOTE: Registration for this event is limited. See registration instructions at the bottom of this page
Overview
POSSE, the Professors’ Open Source Software Experience, prepares instructors to guide student participation in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) projects. This POSSE Roundup is a workshop for instructors who have previously attended POSSE, or who have open source experience including contributing to an open source project.
The workshop will allow faculty to work together in small groups to become more familiar with a selected HFOSS project. The group work will include getting the development environment installed, finding a bug, fixing it and submitted a patch back to the community. The groups will work under the guidance of a faculty member who has successfully contributed to the HFOSS project. The workshop structure of the day will emphasize active participation of attendees.
Notes
To be posted
Meeting Location
In the Baltimore Convention Center, room 302.
Agenda
We will spend much of the day working in small groups on several different HFOSS projects. For the groups working on the Mozilla Dev Tools Accessibility features and the group working on Ushahidi, the schedule will be:
Time | Activity | Facilitators |
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Wednesday February 21, 2018 | ||
8:30 AM |
Welcome and Overview:
|
Lori and Greg |
9:15 AM |
Breakout: Development Environment Installation |
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10:15 AM | Break | All |
10:30 AM |
Breakout: Product walkthrough - developer and user views |
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12:00 | Lunch - The Yard - 110 South Eutaw Street | All |
1:30 PM |
Breakout: Picking a Bug to work on & becoming acquainted with the code base |
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3:00 PM |
Break |
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3:30 PM |
Breakout: Coding a bug fix Breakout: Contributing back |
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4:45 PM | Wrap-up
|
Greg and Lori |
5:45 PM | Dinner - Pratt Street Ale House - 206 W Pratt St. | All |
For the group working on the food bank project, the schedule will be:
Time | Activity | Facilitators |
---|---|---|
Wednesday February 21, 2018 | ||
8:30 AM |
Welcome and Overview:
|
Lori and Greg |
9:15 AM |
Breakout: Overview of the food bank project
|
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10:15 AM | Break | All |
10:30 AM |
Breakout: Sub-groups in parallel
|
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12:00 | Lunch - The Yard - 110 South Eutaw Street | All |
1:30 PM |
Breakout: Design discussion for candidate features. Possible candidates include:
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3:00 PM |
Break |
|
3:30 PM |
Breakout: Planning
|
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4:45 PM | Wrap-up
|
Greg and Lori |
5:45 PM | Dinner - Pratt Street Ale House - 206 W Pratt St. | All |
Information for Attendees
To Register
This POSSE Roundup is a workshop for instructors who have previously attended POSSE, or who have open source experience including contributing to an open source project. If you would like to register, please email Lori Postner at Lori.Postner@ncc.edu or Greg Hislop at hislop@drexel.edu. If you are not a POSSE alum, please provide a short summary of your experience with open source, including contributions to FOSS projects.
NOTE: seating is limited, so please do not assume you are attending before receiving a confirmation from us.
Minutes: Mozilla DevTools Team
Live etherpad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/HEjjP8gUfQgb Contents will be saved here after the session.
Minutes: Ushahidi Team
Live etherpad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/9zz16UpHb2h4 Contents will be saved here after the session.
Minutes: Foodbank Team
Live etherpad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/KbuSCTZL4rVh Contents will be saved here after the session: https://teachingopensource.org/SIGCSE_2018_POSSE_Roundup/FoodBankNotes
Opportunities for POSSE Alum
POGIL Training 2018
We have funding to send POSSE alum to regional POGIL training workshops. Schedule of summer regional POGIL workshops Please email Greg Hislop if you would like to attend a workshop this summer.
Open Source Track at the Grace Hopper Convention 2018
The open source track at Hopper has a number of opportunities for POSSE alum to be involved. Hopper Open Source Track If you are interested in putting together a paper, panel, workshop and would like to be put in contact with other POSSE alum please email Lori Postner.
Funding Opportunities
Looking to get more involved with open source in the classroom? We have limited funding to help professors design courses and be involved in a number of other activities. To get more information, please contact Greg Hislop or Heidi Ellis.