POSSE 2014-11 Feedback

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Participant Observations

Have participants look at and comment on each other's work
Some folks felt that logging the stage 1 activities was busy work
Some folks felt overwhelmed by stage 1, felt better after stage 2
End of spring has conflict with ICSE
This timing worked, but having more lead time
Very helpful to have two folks from the same institution
Pair folks from different institutions during stage 1 to provide collaborators, similar to having two folks from same institution
Ask for summary of experience of what you got out of POSSE
- Ask folks to put them on Opensource.com

Darci's Notes:

Interesting to see how you can integrate into an existing curriculum and/or to build new curriculum
Stage 1 exercises worked well regarding preparation for stage 2 – they were not over burdensome, the sequence was incredibly rich
Thought I was doing busy work in some cases, e.g. how many commits. Why do the copy and paste kind of thing.
The activity did force me to create a blog for example.
It might have been helpful to ask us to look at other people’s posts.
Complete newbie perspective – started worrying that stage 1 was going to be overwhelming. Stage 2 leveled this feeling; now have many pages of notes about things I want to do.
What time of year works? Software engineering conference is in May. Stage 1 could have started a bit earlier. Reading articles activity – some overlap, too much?, create captcha, having multiple people from the same institution was good, set up pairs during stage 1 (to replicate the benefits of having more than one person from the same institution).
Red Hat asks those who they fund to provide an immediate write up and a 1 year post evaluation.
Yes, we will attend and we will do a summary report at a department meeting for example. Or post a summary to an institution’s website. The H stuff is always great promotional materials for the institution.

Get folks to communicate things like roadblocks that they encounter after stage 2