Re: Speaking at RPI in New York

[Tim Horton <hortont424 gmail com>]

On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:45, Willie Walker wrote:

> Hi All:
>
> My parents live in upstate New York and I'm probably headed down to  
> visit them over Thanksgiving.  One of the routes I drive down to my  
> parent's house takes me through Troy, so it might be a welcome  
> driving break to stop by and give a talk, assuming I can talk my  
> wife and son into hanging out somewhere for an hour and a half or so.
>
> I'd also like to try to hook up with Ephraim Glinert (Professor  
> Emeritus of Computer Science at RPI) if possible -- he was involved  
> in some of the Java Accessibility API work we did back in the late  
> 90's.
>
> So, if RPI is not going to be shut down the week of Thanksgiving, I  
> might be available to speak Mon-Wed.

Classes end for thanksgiving after the last class on Tuesday, just to  
let you know :-)

> Will
>
> PS - I'm also trying to hook up with the National Technology  
> Institute for the Deaf at RIT in Rochester that week.  If both RPI  
> and RIT are available, it might get a little tight, but still fun.
>
> Tim Horton wrote:
> > On Nov 2, 2009, at 04:22, Stormy Peters wrote:
> > > Anybody in the New York area interested in speaking at RPI?
> > If anyone *is* interested in coming/talking and needs a place to  
> > stay, racarr and I have a couch you can happily crash on (we go to  
> > RPI, and live a few minutes off campus). We'd also *love* to have  
> > someone come visit and give a talk :-)
> > --Tim
> > > Stormy
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: *Luis Ibanez* <luis ibanez kitware com <mailto:luis ibanez kitware com 
> > > >>
> > > Date: Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 12:42 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [TOS] FSOSS session notes
> > > To: Stormy Peters <stormy peters gmail com <mailto:stormy peters gmail com 
> > > >>
> > > Cc: Mel Chua <mel redhat com <mailto:mel redhat com>>, TOS <tos teachingopensource org 
> > >  <mailto:tos teachingopensource org>>, Will Schroeder <will schroeder kitware com 
> > >  <mailto:will schroeder kitware com>>, Badri Roysam <roysam ecse rpi edu 
> > >  <mailto:roysam ecse rpi edu>>, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy <moorthy cs rpi edu 
> > >  <mailto:moorthy cs rpi edu>>
> > >
> > >
> > > Stormy,
> > >
> > > This is a great idea, and it is very much needed.
> > >
> > > We are currently running our "Open Source Software Practices" course
> > > http://public.kitware.com/OpenSourceSoftwarePractice/index.php/Main_Page
> > > at RPI (http://www.rpi.edu <http://www.rpi.edu/>) and will  
> > > appreciate to have a visiting speaker
> > > from the GNOME project.
> > >
> > >
> > > Should we simply ask our name/course  to the page:
> > >
> > >     http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/Speakers   (?)
> > >
> > >
> > > ----
> > >
> > > Here are several typical needs that an "Open Source Course"
> > > have from "Open Source Projects":
> > >
> > >
> > > a) Case studies:  for example, we cover a couple of sessions
> > >    on "Governance and community management". We talk
> > >    about the projects that we manage (www.itk.org <http://www.itk.org/ 
> > > >, www.vtk.org <http://www.vtk.org/>,
> > >    www.paraview.org <http://www.paraview.org/>), but it is very  
> > > useful to have other cases.
> > >    We have used tele-participation in the past (if that helps)
> > >    via Skype.
> > >
> > >
> > > b) Class projects:     students must work on a FOSS as part of
> > >    their grade. They tend to have difficulties identifying a
> > >   community that they can join, and managing to find something
> > >   interesting that can be executed in about 12 weeks (with about
> > >   2~4 hours of work a week).
> > >
> > >   Do you have a list of "low hanging fruit" in your bug tracker and
> > >   or feature request list, that students could work on as part of
> > >   their class project.
> > >
> > >
> > > c) Talks to the larger community: (not just the class). This works
> > >   better with a FOSS project representative visiting the school
> > >   for on day. It will be great is someone from GNOME was
> > >   available in the period from now to Dec 10.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > We will be happy to provide more details if you are interested.
> > >
> > >
> > >    Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >          Luis
> > >
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 2009/10/31 Stormy Peters <stormy peters gmail com <mailto:stormy peters gmail com 
> > > >>:
> > > > Did you talk about how to get more developers to visit schools?
> > > >
> > > > We've talked about this at GNOME. We'd like to have a list of  
> > > potential
> > > > speakers (listed by topic and location) and a list of schools  
> > > that would
> > > > like speakers.
> > > >
> > > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeEvents/Speakers
> > > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeUni
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way we could work with this group to understand the  
> > > need better
> > > > and make this happen?
> > > >
> > > > Stormy
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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