SIGCSE 2018 POSSE Roundup

NOTE: Registration for this event is limited. See registration instructions at the bottom of this page

Overview

POSSE, the Professors’ Open Source Software Experience, prepares instructors to guide student participation in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) projects. 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.

The workshop will allow faculty to work together in small groups to become more familiar with a selected HFOSS project. The group work will include getting the development environment installed, finding a bug, fixing it and submitted a patch back to the community. The groups will work under the guidance of a faculty member who has successfully contributed to the HFOSS project. The workshop structure of the day will emphasize active participation of attendees.

Notes

To be posted

Meeting Location

In the Baltimore Convention Center, the SIGCSE venue. Specific room to be determined

Agenda

We will spend much of the day working in small groups on several different HFOSS projects. For the groups working on the Mozilla Dev Tools Accessibility features and the group working on Ushahidi, the schedule will be:

Time	Activity	Facilitators
	Wednesday February 21, 2018
8:30 AM	Welcome and Overview: Introductions Plan for the day HFOSS updates	Lori and Greg
9:15 AM	Breakout: Development Environment Installation
10:15 AM	Break	All
10:30 AM	Breakout: Product walkthrough - developer and user views
12:00	Lunch - The Yard - 110 South Eutaw Street	All
1:30 PM	Breakout: Picking a Bug to work on & becoming acquainted with the code base
3:00 PM	Break
3:30 PM	Breakout: Coding a bug fix Breakout: Contributing back
4:45 PM	Wrap-up POGIL Summer workshops	Greg and Lori
5:45 PM	Dinner - Pratt Street Ale House - 206 W Pratt St.	All

For the group working on the food bank project, the schedule will be:

Time	Activity	Facilitators
	Wednesday February 21, 2018
8:30 AM	Welcome and Overview: Introductions Plan for the day HFOSS updates	Lori and Greg
9:15 AM	Breakout: Overview of the food bank project Overview of the application area Discussion of relevant experience within the group and possible targets at each location Functional areas discussion
10:15 AM	Break	All
10:30 AM	Breakout: Sub-groups in parallel Group A: HFOSS project evaluation of known food projects Group B: Explore food bank apps on the Play Store/Apple Store
12:00	Lunch - The Yard - 110 South Eutaw Street	All
1:30 PM	Breakout: Design discussion for candidate features. Possible candidates include: Expiration date vs. allowable use date (government database) Food bank intake client forms that could be further automated for initial client contact and later contacts (Currently a google form) Inventory tracking
3:00 PM	Break
3:30 PM	Breakout: Planning Defining possible learning activities: selection from library or draft of new ones Identifying target courses and what kind of activities students could do Brainstorming: Next steps with students
4:45 PM	Wrap-up POGIL Summer workshops	Greg and Lori
5:45 PM	Dinner - Pratt Street Ale House - 206 W Pratt St.	All

Preparation

Coming soon!

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.