posse_south_africa_final_sanity_check
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#teachingopensource Meeting

Meeting started by mchua at 14:41:41 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Agenda (mchua, 14:43:43)
    1. * Curriculum status (mchua, 14:43:43)
    2. * Staffing and travel logistics status (mchua, 14:43:43)
    3. * Budget status (mchua, 14:43:43)
    4. * Enrollment/recruitment status (mchua, 14:43:43)
    5. * Visitors and guest lecturers status (mchua, 14:43:45)
    6. * PR status (mchua, 14:43:48)
    7. * Meeting on Sunday? (mchua, 14:43:53)

  2. Curriculum status (mchua, 14:44:53)
    1. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_South_Africa#Schedule (mchua, 14:44:55)
    2. We're all set with curriculum, attendees have been mailed the schedule and pre-readings. (mchua, 14:45:08)
    3. http://teachingopensource.org/pipermail/posse-south-africa/2010-September/000001.html (mchua, 14:45:29)
    4. questions and comments about the curriculum should go to the tos list (for general curriculum commentary) and the posse-south-africa list (for specific "what do I do for this session?" questions). (mchua, 14:46:19)

  3. staffing and travel logistics (mchua, 14:46:27)
    1. All set and taken care of, instructors will be in town by Sunday evening. (mchua, 14:46:36)

  4. Budget status (mchua, 14:46:40)
    1. All set; we have spent/budgeted $6278.41 out of our $7000 max budget, so we have $721.59 remaining. (mchua, 14:47:08)
    2. We may use some of this for printing/copying materials, etc. and are generally leaving it as a buffer, just in case. (mchua, 14:47:37)
    3. Thank you to CPUT for sponsoring Thursday night's dinner! (mchua, 14:47:46)

  5. Enrollment/recruitment (mchua, 14:47:51)
    1. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_South_Africa#Professors (mchua, 14:48:08)
    2. Still missing information from Kruben Naidoo (mchua, 14:48:17)
    3. ACTION: mchua to follow up with Kruben Naidoo on answers to the application questions (mchua, 14:48:29)

  6. Visitors and guest lecturers (mchua, 14:50:55)
    1. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_South_Africa#Guests (mchua, 14:51:35)

  7. PR status (mchua, 15:03:36)
    1. http://opensource.com liveblogging will go on throughout the week (mchua, 15:03:48)
    2. We already have an article queued up to go live before the weekend, telling people we're doing the POSSE (mchua, 15:04:16)
    3. http://opensource.com/education/10/9/south-africa-welcomes-posse-what-means (mchua, 15:04:20)
    4. ACTION: mchua find Kara in person today wrt press release status. (mchua, 15:04:58)

  8. Q&A (mchua, 15:06:18)
    1. 5:30pm Sunday night instructor + Michael meetup (mchua, 15:12:19)


Meeting ended at 15:30:01 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. mchua to follow up with Kruben Naidoo on answers to the application questions
  2. mchua find Kara in person today wrt press release status.


Action items, by person

  1. mchua
    1. mchua to follow up with Kruben Naidoo on answers to the application questions
    2. mchua find Kara in person today wrt press release status.


People present (lines said)

  1. mchua (140)
  2. micadeyeye (54)
  3. zodbot (5)


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