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#teachingopensource Meeting
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Meeting started by mchua at 19:03:56 UTC. The full logs are available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource/2010-07-13/posse_weekly_meeting.2010-07-13-19.03.log.html
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Meeting summary
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* Current tasks  (mchua, 19:04:16)
  * LINK:
    http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_program_design#Tasks
    (mchua, 19:04:20)
  * mchua is behind, but will be catching up shortly  (mchua, 19:04:33)

* Upcoming POSSEs  (mchua, 19:05:19)
  * POSSE China is coming up - the biggest issue is getting applications
    from attendees. iow, people plan on attending, but we don't know
    anything about them, so we can't approve them to attend.  (mchua,
    19:06:11)
  * POSSE South Africa is looking very good, thanks to madeyeye's hard
    work - it has instructors (jwildeboer and myself) but lacks a tech
    guru. Anyone know a good South African Fedora hacker?  (mchua,
    19:06:55)
  * POSSE Malaysia still needs instructors and a tech guru, but there's
    a general idea of how that might happen.  (mchua, 19:07:39)
  * mchua is worried about POSSE Philippines and EMEA not happening this
    fall because there hasn't been any news about it and the fall is
    coming close.  (mchua, 19:08:01)
  * Other POSSE ideas: beagleboard, Santa Cruz/California, Drupal, Olin,
    design, Arizona State, University of Kansas, Johns Hopkins,
    Scotland, Brazil, Plone, liberal arts.  (mchua, 19:08:56)

* POSSE program administration  (mchua, 19:09:34)
  * In terms of running POSSE, I'd love to have a professor (possibly
    with a course release) to work with on this in the spring - and make
    it a rotating thing, where a different professor gets a course
    release to coordinate coordinators of POSSE each year.  (mchua,
    19:11:15)
  * I'd also like to have a conversation at some point this month with
    anyone who's interested in - or already involved with - doing
    research on the effectiveness of POSSE, formal or informal, because
    we need to get a better idea of how we're doing.  (mchua, 19:12:01)
  * Our trademark for POSSE is *still* in the works. Legal stuff takes a
    while, apparently. :)  (mchua, 19:12:43)

* POSSE infrastructure  (mchua, 19:12:49)
  * ctyler, quaid, ianweller, and I are hoping to get POSSE some more
    solid infrastructure with a more distributed sysadmin team. Help
    welcome! We target completion of the work by the end of the month,
    with everything ready to roll by mid-august when school starts
    again.  (mchua, 19:13:40)
  * ianweller and mchua are hacking on a POSSE registration app this
    week in Santa Cruz  (mchua, 19:13:52)
  * ganderson-afk is doing some neat explorations on setting up
    infrastructure *within* RIT  (mchua, 19:14:10)

* POSSE curriculum  (mchua, 19:17:28)
  * quaid is revising the TOS textbook to be more useful as a reference
    to POSSE; we'll try this in China.  (mchua, 19:17:46)
  * mchua needs to clear time to work through a bit of curriculum
    overhaul on-list  (mchua, 19:18:03)

* Open discussion  (mchua, 19:18:08)
  * LINK: http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_South_Africa
    (micadeyeye, 19:21:09)
  * POSSE SA's Thursday dinner will be sponsored by the IT department of
    CPUT, our gracious hosts :)  (mchua, 19:22:34)

Meeting ended at 19:30:13 UTC.




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