POSSE 2013-06 2A Sunday Etherpad
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POSSE 2013-06
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Participants
Heidi Ellis, Western New England University
Ellen Zimmer, Edinboro
IRC:
Communal Notes
Useful Links
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Participants
Heidi Ellis, Western New England University
- Was an animal science major
- Has chocolate stashed in her hotel room
- Brought wet wipes (perhaps she predicted the desert)
- Lives about midway between Western NE U and Trinity, in a town that does not allow drive-throughs
- Most valuable course in educational career: Typing
- Does not do sticky
- Does do chocolate
- Has five children, ranging in age from 12 to 24 or so.
- Grinnell College is in Iowa
- Sam has 3 wonderful boys
- Commute was a little rough... lots of plane delays, but arrived at Drexel at the same time as the group
- Interested in using Ushahidi
- To relax spends time with family - plays board games
- Likes to read
- Finds work relaxing ... (workaholic??)
- Is color deficient so this system is challenging
- Wants to talk to Sebastian about algorithmically generated art
- Used to dance ballet (and belly)
- Writing a book on hacks for Raspberry Pi
- Danced with lightening in a Tesla cage a week or so ago.
- Has a full set of MassEffect
- has clutzy and transparent child and another one who is a spelling bee winner
- knows how to spelll Claddagh (also spelling bee winner)
- Does not do sticky
- Writes at Wired as "Geek Mom" <a href="http://www.wired.com/geekmom/author/ruth/">http://www.wired.com/geekmom/author/ruth/</a>
- Likes lovefeast coffee and cake
- Studied middle school in Kenya
- Father works in Steel (which is why she was in Kenya)
- Considering Ushahidi as a project because it may fit with a broader social/environmental justice project that is the focus of her class.
- Actually makes the time to relax
- Did a really cool project having middle school students do participatory journalism and write programs (in Scratch) as part of their reporting.
- Owns a kilt
- Only person here from Canada (how do you know?)
- Has done some work on Ushahidi
- Has never had sweet potatoes with marshmallows before.
- part of the foss2serve team, one of the PI's
- has a brother and sister who have both lived in California
- Loves shoe shopping
- Not a big fan of sweet potatoes covered in marshmallows
- Does not do sticky
- From Bombay, India originally
- Went to college here, Tulane University in New Orleans
- Was there during Katrina, evacuated 2 days ahead of the storm.
- We both know Laurie King - she was his advisor, I'm cochairing a conference with her
- is a great cook (as per his grad school friend)
- avid cyclist\, all around great guy
- does sticky, all the time
- bribed matt to write that he is a great guy ($20)
- finds the freedom and human interaction parts of his job very rewarding
- Managing a super computer project
- Teaches an undergradute programming course in Python and is using mercurial and Bitbucket to have students submit their work
- Refuses to teach us how to pronounce his name
- Original member of founding faculty at Gwinnett
- is a great leader
- Does not do sticky
- Is a Pretty pretty princess
- Survived hurricane Sandy (as did her institution)
- Probably using OpenMRS as the open source software. Teaching independent study to students who only know Java. A bit nervous, but aren't we all.
- Commute was smooth.
- Can't count - typed four facts about first interview (but so did her interviewer)
- Coordinator for international collaborations with India
- Going to my home state in a couple of months
- Skydove (past tense?) last year from 14K feet
- Was terrified of the brown bread
- Taking trapeeze lessons
- She is some type of absent minded profeesor, but cannot remember what the word is. Stoney ftw - consummate
- Does sticky
- lived in at least four different states growing up
- father was in military
- Can't remember her github username
- Loves homemade popcorn with butter so she must do sticky
- Went to Lehigh for 1.5 years during undergrad
- Actually took longer to get his Ph.D. than Heidi did
- Likes drawing diagrams
- Also teaches Python
- Likes to write down random facts he knows about other participants
Ellen Zimmer, Edinboro
- Come from a family of academics
- Avid fisher
- Not a big fan of sweet potatoes covered in marshmallows
- is a hockey playing cat loving cook
- AKA "Matt from Moravian"s
- is an all around great guy
- Graduate student studying data science
- originally from CT
- doesn't really like San Francisco very much; likes berkeley much more
- working on algorithmically generated art
- Thought that "Amish Mafia" was maybe true to life
- Pronounces his last name the same way Peter does ("However you want")
- She wants to be a skydiver and paraglide off cliffs in Hawaii
- She was a stage manager for a syndicated TV series named Divorce Court
- She was the production supervisor for one of the first HBP flm series - First in Ten
- Does not do sticky
- Started tenure track position while she was in school, graduated recently and will go up for tenure in a couple of years.
- insprired sticky... because she was dying to go to wash hands after eating the dessert and stated she does not do sticky
- likes to make up facts about other participants
- Commutes an hour to this job for love
- Wrote code for 5 hours on the train with Karl
- plays guitar and piano
- Feels like a pretty, pretty princess today
- Just bought a Ford C-Max
- went hiking in the NJ Pine Barrens today
- knows a guy who wrote a book about Kepler
- saw a Northern Black Racer
- Has Claddagh ring
- Is a private pilot
- is on the teaching faculty in the CS department and works closely with the iSchool
- Gets lots of mail addressed to Morgan
- Been at Drexel for 4 years
- Has worked with students doing projects with Twitter
- was mistaken for Kojak on the subway today
- Working on her research proposal about behaviors in open-source communities (it sounds really cool, and I've probably misrepresented it)
- Has two children.
- Greg let her out of the lab today
- Threw out her first dissertation proposal
- not present in Philly :(
- Presenting at another workshop in Ferrum, VA
- Collects Monopoly Games
- Oldest daughter got married two weeks ago. Next oldest daughter getting married on Friday.
- Dominican University
- Stalked by Peter
- Used to teach at Oberlin
- Currently teaches as Dominican
- Is an amateur astronomer
- Co-team lead of the GNOME Accessibility team with Alejandro Pinero
- Works for Igalia which provide consulting services for open source projects
- Likes her car so much she is going to bring it to Spain with her
- Wrangles newbies to open source with great finesse
IRC:
- Drexel guest network doesn't support client-based IRC nor VPN
- You may want to try the freenode Web IRC : <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/">http://webchat.freenode.net/</a>
- Is not a participant in POSSE
Communal Notes
- (rebelsky is going to town on IRC channel foss2serve on freenode.net: join using web based client: <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/">http://webchat.freenode.net/</a> )
- IRC Log of Sunday night meeting: <a href="http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/foss2serve/2013-06-02/foss2serve.2013-06-02-23.41.html">http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/foss2serve/2013-06-02/foss2serve.2013-06-02-23.41.html</a>
Useful Links
- Web-based IRC client: <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/">http://webchat.freenode.net/</a>
- Schedule: <a href="http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Stage_2_Activities">http://foss2serve.org/index.php/Stage_2_Activities</a>
- Slides and stuff: <a href="http://foss2serve.org/images/foss2serve/d/da/POSSE_Stage2Materials.zip">http://foss2serve.org/images/foss2serve/d/da/POSSE_Stage2Materials.zip</a>
- Blog post: "Why we won't call you a 'user'": <a href="http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/263">http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/263</a>
- 50 ways to be a FOSSer: <a href="http://xcitegroup.org/softhum/doku.php?id=f:50ways">http://xcitegroup.org/softhum/doku.php?id=f:50ways</a>
- Producing Open Source Software: <a href="http://producingoss.com/">http://producingoss.com/</a>
- The Open Source Way: <a href="http://theopensourceway.org">http://theopensourceway.org</a>
- OpenSource.com: <a href="http://opensource.com/">http://opensource.com/</a>
