POSSE 2013-06 Stage 2 Activities

Objectives

Participants completing the Stage 2 workshop will be able to:

• Name and explain a variety of learning activities that student participation in HFOSS projects may include
• Plan and implement HFOSS activities appropriate for their curriculum and students
• Explain challenges and opportunities of student HFOSS participation
• Discuss key aspects of FOSS culture and process
• Select HFOSS projects better suited for student participation
• Identify key sources of information for learning about HFOSS
• Participate in POSSE Stage 3

Schedule

Below is the schedule for the during-workshop activities.

Time	Activity	Team
	Day 1 (Evening)
5:30	Leave the hotel for POSSE	All
6:00	1.1 Welcome Plan for the evening Welcome to Philadelphia and the iSchool Introducing everyone - a group task over dinner Using an Etherpad Enter your own name Enter one or two "fun facts" about someone else, who you will introduce to the group	Greg, Stoney
6:30	Dinner	All
7:15	1.2 Overview Introduction of participants Schedule - overview of the two days HFOSS, POSSE, and foss2serve Introduction of the OpenFE team Brief history of FOSS	Heidi, Greg
8:45	Return to the hotel	All
	Day 2
8:00	Leave the hotel for POSSE	All
8:15	Continental breakfast	All
8:30	2.1 Examples of HFOSS in Education 50 ways to be a FOSSer - the variety of different contributions that can be made Examples of actual student contributions	Stoney, Heidi, Cam
9:15	2.2 HFOSS in the Curriculum Discussion of options for getting started Example: A single HFOSS assignment in a course Example: HFOSS in a project course Example: HFOSS as a course HFOSS beyond the curriculum	Greg, Karl
10:00	Break	All
10:30	2.3 Understanding Open Source Communities Based on examples from 2-3 HFOSS projects Basic information: contact person, guide to getting started, Project Selection evaluation summary Understanding the community landscape and process Becoming a participant: lurking, joining the community, being visible, finding things to do Background: Building on results of Stage 1.B.1 and 1.B.4 learning activities	Joanie, Ruth, Heidi
12:00	Lunch Food for thought: Michael Brennan, SecondMuse - Extracurricular HFOSS National Day of Civic Hacking Random Hacks of Kindness	All
1:00	2.4 Understanding POSSE Stage 3 MouseTrap - as a prototype Stage 3 group Discussion of projects and indication of interest Evaluation in Stage 3 Group Informatics	Greg, Darci, John, Sean
1:45	2.5 Pedagogy and Course Management Trying to find the right size student project Evaluating student work Licensing and intellectual property Instructional style: mentoring vs. lecturing; instructor as co-learner	Heidi, Karl
2:30	Break	All
3:00	2.6 Exercise - First Activity Planning a first HFOSS activity at your institution Planning participation in POSSE Stage 3	Team
5:00	Return to the hotel	All
6:30	Dinner - Pietro's, 1714 Walnut St. (meet in the Sonesta lobby at 6:15)	All
	Day 3
8:00	Leave the hotel (checkout first)	All
8:15	Continental breakfast	All
8:30	3.1 HFOSS Process and Tools: Communication How tools fit and support HFOSS culture IRC and meetbots: Why don't we just use video chat? Wikis, forums, listservs Blogs and planets	Sean, Greg, Ruth, Joanie
9:15	3.2 HFOSS Process and Tools: Coordination and Control Upstream Adoption Version control - role in a FOSS project How to get a change committed.	Heidi, Stoney, Joanie
10:00	Break	All
10:30	3.3 Sharing HFOSS Learning Activities Goal: to create a shared set of HFOSS learning activities Standard information to define each learning activity Existing learning activities and places to share new ones foss2serve.org, teachingopensource.org, swenet.org, computingportal.org Brainstorming session Where would you like to have an HFOSS activity in your curriculum? What would that activity be?	Greg, Darci
11:30	3.4 Getting Started on a Project Alternatives Download and install an HFOSS project (Stage 3 choice) Identify a small contribution that you could make. Talk about how you would create student deliverables?	Heidi, Stoney, Joanie
12:00	Lunch Food for thought: Tim Siftar, Special Libraries Association Libraries as resources for disaster response HFOSS opportunities	All
1:00	3.4 Getting Started on a Project - continued
2:00	3.5 Stage 3 - First Steps What will the group do together? Plan some initial activities (faculty only or faculty and students) Discuss group communication	Heidi, Lori
3:00	3.6 Going Forward Evaluation form Open discussion Closing remarks	Heidi, Greg
4:00	End - shuttles and taxi to airport/train	All

Downloads

• Zip of slides etc.
• VM image for Ushahidi
• 2.6: Exercise on Planing a First HFOSS Activity
• 3.5: Exercise on Stage 3 - First Steps
• Ushahidi Data Set

Etherpad

• http://titanpad.com/posse2a (up)
• http://openetherpad.org/p/posse2a (Sunday night notes; up, but let's use titanpad.com for now)

Captures

• POSSE 2013-06 2A Sunday Etherpad

IRC

• server: irc.freenode.net
• channel: foss2serve

Standard IRC clients are not working at the workshop (port blocked?). So if you are at the workshop you'll need to use a web-based IRC client.

Web-based IRC Clients

• http://webchat.freenode.net/ (tried and works; has a limit from one IP)
• https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/ (tried and works)
• http://www.mibbit.com/ (untried)

Logs

• Sunday night: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/foss2serve/2013-06-02/foss2serve.2013-06-02-23.41.html
• Monday morning: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/foss2serve/2013-06-03/foss2serve.2013-06-03-12.33.html
• Monday midday: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/foss2serve/2013-06-03/foss2serve.2013-06-03-17.09.html
• Tuesday morning: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/foss2serve/2013-06-04/foss2serve.2013-06-04-12.37.log.html
• Tuesday afternoon: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/foss2serve/2013-06-04/foss2serve.2013-06-04-17.03.log.html