SIGCSE 2020 POSSE Roundup

Meeting Location

Meeting room: B110, Portland Convention Center.

The POSSE Roundup is a pre-symposium event for the SIGCSE Symposium. See SIGCSE 2020 for general information about the location.

Overview

The workshop will explore HFOSS Kits as an approach to providing more scaffolding and control for faculty taking initial steps to introduce students to HFOSS participation. HFOSS kits will:

• Provide a controlled, isolated practice environment where students can learn and practice open source skills. A kit contains:
  • A project sandbox - copy of an HFOSS project or selected artifacts from a live HFOSS project
  • Learning activities for the project sandbox
  • Directions and notes for an instructor on how to use the Kit
• Reduce instructor overhead in teaching basic open source skills. Kits will provide a predictable, controlled environment that can be re-set and re-used across multiple academic terms. Kits will also provide an opportunity for students to practice open source tasks repeatedly using real-world artifacts without needing to be concerned about burdening a project community.
• Provide experience with complexity and scale since the artifacts are from real projects. They will not have the benefit of observation and interaction with a project community.

Kits are intended as a stepping stone to participation in a live HFOSS projects.

Agenda

Time	Activity	Facilitators
	Wednesday March 11, 2020
8:30 AM	Welcome Introductions Plan for the day	Heidi, Darci
9:00 AM	Overview of HFOSS Kits	Greg, Lori
9:30 AM	Breakout: HFOSS Kits Learning outcomes and activities Target HFOSS projects	All
10:00 AM	Break	All
10:45 AM	Breakout: HFOSS Kits (continued)	All
11:30	Report from breakout groups	All
12:00	Lunch - TBD	All
1:30 PM	Computing for Social Good meeting
5:45 PM	Dinner - TBD	All

Information for Attendees

To Register

This POSSE Roundup is a workshop for instructors who have previously attended POSSE, or who have open source experience including contributing to an open source project. If you would like to register, please email Lori Postner at Lori.Postner@ncc.edu or Greg Hislop at hislop@drexel.edu. If you are not a POSSE alum, please provide a short summary of your experience with open source, including contributions to FOSS projects.

NOTE: seating is limited, so please do not assume you are attending before receiving a confirmation from us.

Support

We expect that most attendees will be staying for SIGCSE. For those needing to arrive on Tuesday to attend the POSSE roundup on Wednesday, we can provide support for the extra hotel night for a limited number of attendees. Please let us know ASAP if you are interested in this support.