#teachingopensource Meeting

Meeting summary

1. roll call (mchua, 19:00:37)
   
2. this summer's POSSEs (mchua, 19:01:04)
   1. POSSE Worcester and RIT continue to gather attendees, all set with logistics (mchua, 19:01:21)
   2. POSSE RIT instructors/curriculum set, Fedora (mchua, 19:01:32)
   3. POSSE Worcester instructors set, curriculum being adapted to Sugar Labs (mchua, 19:01:43)
   4. POSSE California will have a date, location, and begin recruiting by this Friday (mchua, 19:01:56)
   5. POSSE CMU needs 1 more instructor and 4 more students to run (mchua, 19:02:17)
   6. we are under budget for every POSSE this summer thus far (mchua, 19:02:35)
   
   
3. upcoming POSSEs (mchua, 19:02:44)
   1. Have not heard updates from South Africa, Malaysia, Philippines, EMEA, Design; potential interest for Carolina, China (mchua, 19:03:36)
   
   
4. POSSE program design (mchua, 19:03:53)
   1. end-of-semester rush has delayed work on IRB for measuring effectiveness this summer (mchua, 19:04:14)
   2. we're learning a lot about how to structure the program to make it scaleable/reproducible; expect a v.2.0 "howto plan a POSSE" once details for CMU and California have been settled (mchua, 19:05:07)
   3. POSSEs outside NA likely to run in fall/winter of this year (mchua, 19:05:21)
   4. POSSE planning for summer 2010 to start a month from now; if you have ideas for locations, start thinking about them. (mchua, 19:05:43)
   5. goal: have POSSE be a program that can be run by rotating groups of faculty, like other periodic workshops/conferences in academia, by 2012 (mchua, 19:06:18)
   6. POSSE South Africa is looking for a second instructor, October 3-8, 2010; must be a professor and a POSSE alumni (can be one of this summer's alumni). (mchua, 19:13:37)
   7. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_2009#Topic_Schedule (mchua, 19:16:44)
   8. IDEA: POSSE South Africa co-taught by micadeyeye and mchua in October, focus on Mozilla development using Fedora as a dev platform - tentative and dependent on whether we can come up with a curriculum. (mchua, 19:18:42)
   9. POSSE South Africa go/no-go date is June 1st, 2010 (mchua, 19:21:07)
   10. Needed to make POSSE South Africa a GO: location (done), instructors (done), tech guru, at least 5 students, curriculum, funding secured, draft of logistics (mchua, 19:21:37)
   11. ACTION: micadeyeye do a first draft of POSSE SA (Mozilla) curriculum, send to TOS list (mchua, 19:22:47)

Action items

1. micadeyeye do a first draft of POSSE SA (Mozilla) curriculum, send to TOS list

Action items, by person

1. micadeyeye
   1. micadeyeye do a first draft of POSSE SA (Mozilla) curriculum, send to TOS list

People present (lines said)

1. mchua (80)
2. micadeyeye (25)
3. kwurst (10)
4. zodbot (2)