#foss2serve: Pathways Workshop Friday

Meeting started by kwurst at 14:39:10 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. http://foss2serve.org/index.php/File:2.1_Introduction.pptx (mchua, 14:39:33)

  2. introductions (kwurst, 14:42:15)
    1. IDEA: Greg Hislop from Drexel (mchua, 14:42:36)
    2. IDEA: Gina Likins from Red Hat (mchua, 14:42:41)
    3. IDEA: Sara Terp, data scientist & teacher (mchua, 14:43:07)
    4. IDEA: Avni, Mass General - works on FOSS recruitment (mchua, 14:44:40)
    5. IDEA: Mel Chua, FOSS researcher (mchua, 14:44:46)
    6. IDEA: Lori Postner, faculty getting open source into the classroom (mchua, 14:44:58)
    7. IDEA: Heidi Ellis, WNEU, student involvement in humanitarian FOSS (mchua, 14:45:23)
    8. IDEA: Avni Khatri (avni, 14:45:32)
    9. IDEA: Avni Khatri, Mass General, Kids on Computers (avni, 14:45:56)
    10. IDEA: Laura Brennan, ASL interpreter (mchua, 14:46:07)
    11. IDEA: Brittany Ray, ASL interpreter (and ninja) (mchua, 14:46:13)
    12. IDEA: Karl Wurst, WSU, student teams in open source (mchua, 14:47:34)
    13. IDEA: Saptarshi (heidie, 14:47:56)
    14. IDEA: Saptarshi (didn’t get last name) (avni, 14:47:57)
    15. IDEA: Saptarshi Purkayastha (heidie, 14:48:27)
    16. IDEA: Devin (avni, 14:49:22)
    17. IDEA: Devin Balkind (heidie, 14:49:24)
    18. http://foss2serve.org/index.php/File:2.1_Introduction.pptx (lorip, 14:50:36)
    19. IDEA: Need -- faculty resources for teaching open source in the classroom (mchua, 14:59:19)
    20. IDEA: integrating FOSS participaiton throughout the curriculum, not just suddenly in one place (mchua, 14:59:37)
    21. IDEA: need both technical and soft skills (mchua, 15:00:28)
    22. https://pogil.org/ (sjterp, 15:01:30)
    23. IDEA: current faculty workshop doing well pre-workshop and at-workshop but kinda iffy post-workshop b/c people are busy (mchua, 15:13:49)
    24. IDEA: why get students involved in foss at all? (mchua, 15:20:41)
    25. IDEA: kwurst says students need to get involved in something much larger than they could do themselves, because that's what the world is like (mchua, 15:21:10)
    26. IDEA: better than developing apps from scratch; more realistic idea of what world is like (from kwurst) (glikins1, 15:21:39)
    27. IDEA: darci says real world exposure, realizing things like docs etc are important (whereas they usually complain about it) (mchua, 15:22:31)
    28. IDEA: darci says that when they hear it from the community it is "real" to the students (glikins1, 15:22:34)
    29. IDEA: lorip says that it helps students get over misunderstanding of what computer scientists do (glikins1, 15:23:22)
    30. IDEA: heidie says it make the students into a more limitless environment; also gives H a lot more resources for student learning (glikins1, 15:25:04)
    31. IDEA: ghislop reinforces the "real world" -- that the things he says are real (glikins1, 15:26:23)
    32. IDEA: sjterp says as an academic who teaches the humanitarian students about OS… that they don’t have to start from scratch, and that they can find people with skills they don’t have, and that they *can* improve apps they get frustrated with. (glikins1, 15:27:18)
    33. IDEA: sjterp says teaches soft skills - learning in teams; communicating, etc (glikins1, 15:27:40)
    34. https://titanpad.com/PMWG (avni, 15:30:20)
    35. http://infotrope.net/2014/11/28/why-i-dont-like-hackathons-by-alex-bayley-aged-39-12/ (mchua, 20:11:19)
    36. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#Design_principles_for_Common_Pool_Resource_.28CPR.29_institutions (mchua, 20:12:28)


Meeting ended at 14:30:06 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. (none)


People present (lines said)

  1. mchua (153)
  2. glikins1 (80)
  3. heidie (35)
  4. sjterp (20)
  5. avni (14)
  6. kwurst (6)
  7. zodbot (3)
  8. lorip (2)
  9. ghislop (1)


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