TeamMeeting 2016 01 Notes

Team Meeting Notes

Nassau Community College
January 7-8, 2016

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. 1/6 and note below.
    • We will order a large salad
    • Greg: Eggplant Rollatine
    • Heidi: Chicken Parmesan (dinner, not hero)
    • Stoney: Rigatoni Theresa
    • Darci: Eggplant Rollatine
    • Clif: Fusilli Campagnola
  • Work until 8 or 9 Thursday evening
• Friday:
  • Breakfast at hotel
  • Lunch will be provided
  • 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, NSF/AAAS
• Identify / summarize what has been accomplished (in part for the annual report)
• Plan 2016 activity

Topics:

Measurement

Review of what we have

• Measurements as defined in the proposals - are we covering the bases?
• Existing instruments
  • Pre/Post Survey - any update needed?
  • Experience Self-report survey (Karl and Stoney) - expand/refine and get IRB approval?

Direct measurement of learning

• What study designs are possible?
• What instruments do we need?
  • GH pilot of general FOSS intro questions
• Are there existing instruments that we might use, especially for professional skills?

How to measure instructor stage 3 activity

• Need to capture stories including the ones presented at Hopper (Patti, Becka, ...)

Tracking faculty activity

• One year post survey for POSSE alum
  • Poor response to last round - should we switch to interviews?
• Multiple good stories told at Hopper
• Mentions of efforts in POSSE roundup applications

Planning for upcoming events

• Weekly team meeting time for this term. Doodle poll: http://doodle.com/poll/zhyivyx3dmshkexp
• Need to come up with an approach for organizing publications/presentations
  • Identify venues for the next year+
  • Identify possible authors
  • The overall goal is to improve our publications and include a larger number of POSSE/HFOSS community members
• What are the next publication targets?
  • SIGCAS Newsletter section based on POSSE Roundup
    • We need to write an overview (perhaps with some POSSE alum participation?)
• Need for a better round of evaluation and data collection to support publications

• SGICSE
  • POSSE Roundup, Wednesday, March 2, all day (Sultana)
  • BoF
  • NSF Showcase, Thursday, March 3, 10:00 am
• CCSCNE
• Posters at NSF/AAAS meeting
• POSSE
• Possible other events
  • Course materials sprint
  • Academic and HFOSS community summit about education for HFOSS
  • Publication sprint
• Working groups
  • Pathways model
  • Curriculum mapping

Pathways Working Group Meeting

• Planning
  • Goals
  • Agenda
  • What materials need to be prepped?

POSSE

• Planning for 2016
• 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

• VM support for demo and development environments for key HFOSS projects
• How well have we packaged what we have?
  • OAI-PMH
• How do we create/collect more materials?
• Should we hold a learning materials sprint?
• How do we encourage more contributions by POSSE grads?
  • Use of stipends funds

Budget

• Review of budget status

Next Steps

• Encouraging use of faculty stipends
• Participant support for follow-up events
  • 50 ways - Part 2