TeamMeeting 2015 01 Agenda

OpenFE Team Meeting Agenda

Nassau Community College
January 8-9, 2015

Schedule Overview

• Thursday:
  • AM - Travel
  • PM - Meetings
  • Target start time of 12pm at NCC - Lunch will be provided
  • Casual / Working dinner
    • Pick your dinner selection from the take out menu and by noon Wed. 1/7 and note below.
    • Lori - would it make sense to order a large salad to share? (assuming they do things like that)
      • Greg and Sean: Eggplant Parmigiana Pizza, Mighty Medium 16
      • Heidi: Chicken francaise Bento box with italian dressing on the side. If by some chance that is a lunch-only option, A.B.F.Chicken Alla Griglia Salad.
      • Stoney: Rigatoni Amatriciano
      • Darci: A.B.F.Chicken Alla Griglia Salad
  • Work until 8 or 9 Thursday evening
• Friday:
  • Continue work
  • Goal of working until 3pm at least depending on when people need to travel to get home.

Goals for this Meeting

• Assess status of the project relative to the proposal
• Plan actions needed to stay on track with the proposal
• Plan upcoming events for SIGCSE, CCSCNE, POSSE
• Identify / summarize what has been accomplished (in part for year 3 annual report)
• Plan 2015 activity

Topics:

Budget

• Review of budget status

Planning for upcoming events

• SIGCSE, CCSCNE, ASEE
• POSSE
• Course materials sprint
• Academic and HFOSS community summit about education for HFOSS

POSSE

• Planning for 2015
• Stage 1
  • What revisions are needed?
  • 6 vs 8 weeks
  • Participation by POSSE alums of HFOSS project people
• Stage 2
  • Date and location
  • Advertising
  • Team attendees and instructors
  • POSSE alum who might attend and present - including having alums start to be full instructors
  • What revisions are needed?
• Stage 3
  • Assessing success of stage 3
  • How can we better support stage 3 faculty?
  • Plan more organized faculty mentoring?
• Red Hat support / participation in POSSE

Teaching materials

• How well have we packaged what we have?
  • OAI-PMH
• How do we create/collect more materials?
• Should we hold a learning materials sprint? (Inspire -CT funds?)
• How do we encourage more contributions by POSSE grads?
  • Use of stipends funds

Measurement

• Measurements as defined in proposal
• Status of instruments
• Direct measurement of learning
  • What sort of study designs are possible?
  • Do we need instruments for this?
  • Are there existing instruments that we might use, especially for professional skills?
• How to measure stage 3 activity
• One year post survey for POSSE alum
• Tracking of individual POSSE alums and what they do with HFOSS

Group Informatics

• Status and development plan
• How to get adoption
• Is the group informatics effort too constrained by lack of predictable gathering place for stage 3 groups?
  • Is there a way to create more predictable stage 3 interations?
• Possible alternative social media analytics task: can we apply these techniques to understand how people become HFOSS participants
  • What background do they have?
  • What steps do they take?
  • What works and what doesn't?
  • What problems and impediments are there?

Proposals

• "As a potential participant, I would like more clarity in the expectations and the amount I should ask for so that I can write a reasonable proposal."

Publications

• What are the next targets?
• Need for a better round of evaluation and data collection to support publications

Next Steps

• Option of requesting an extension year
• Encouraging use of faculty stipends
• Interaction with Inspire-CT
  • HFOSS community summit
• Participant support for follow-up events
  • 50 ways - Part 2