Speaking at RPI in New York

[Stormy Peters <stormy peters gmail com>]

Anybody in the New York area interested in speaking at RPI?

Stormy

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Luis Ibanez <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>
Cc: Mel Chua <mel redhat com>, TOS <tos teachingopensource org>, Will Schroeder <will schroeder kitware com>, Badri Roysam <roysam ecse rpi edu>, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy <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) 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   (?)


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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, www.vtk.org,
    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


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2009/10/31 Stormy Peters <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
>