POSSE 2013-06 Feedback

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What worked, what didn’t

Stage 1

Timing:

  • Timing of having POSSE Stage 2 right at end of semester seemed to be tough for some people.
  • Provide access to materials 8 weeks in advance so that people who want to get a jump on activities can do so.
  • Add more accountability to stage 1.
    • Have more frequent/small deadlines
    • Have participants (and foss2serve community) review and comment

Activities:

  • Need to refine some of the activities so that they are more focused and therefore should take less time.
    • In particular the Project Evaluation, FOSS Field Trip and FOSS in Courses Planning activities
      • FOSS Field Trip needs more information about how to find information on SourceForge
    • Also clarify the depth required and indicate that participants shouldn't spend more than 2 hours on any one activity unless they want to.
    • Do we even need the Project Evaluation activity as the projects have already been "vetted"?
    • Better to revamp the Project Evaluation activity to walk through a single example and only have participants comment on pieces rather than try to carry out the evaluation themselves.
      • Seems that participants need the experience in Stage 2 to be able to find and understand all of the information.
    • Or, since the projects are already selected, how about a more direct comparison, rather than evaluation?
    • Evaluate one of the chosen projects, not something unrelated.
  • Clarify the mission/purpose of the Stage 1 activities with respect to Stage 2.
    • Make it clear what participants should be getting out of stage 1
      1. Get up to speed in working on HFOSS projects
      2. Get up to speed evaluating an HFOSS project for use
  • Shift some content from Stage 2 to Stage 1:
    • Examples of HFOSS in Education, HFOSS in the Curriculum, Understanding Open Source Communities, Pedagogy and Course Management.
    • Idea: Create short video of these topics and ask participants to create list of questions on wiki (group list) that form the basis of interactive activity in Stage 2.
    • Have real "check ins" with other people within the group
    • Divide into two threads:
      • Getting up to speed on the tools
      • Getting up to speed on the projects

Other:

  • It would be helpful to have some sort of visual introductions during Stage 1.
    • Ask folks to post their pictures on foss2serve wiki?
    • Video skype?
    • Google hangouts?

Stage 2

  • Reorganize to spend more time in small groups.
  • Add another day purely for small groups?
  • Perhaps move two weeks later in June so people have more time before to prepare.
    • How would we combat fatigue? Would this be productive?
  • Combine the face-to-face with a hackathon or other FOSS activity.
    • Host a hackathon the day before or the day after? With students from the local institution?
    • Host a Random Hacks of Kindness?
    • Some other student event?
  • Have more representatives from the HFOSS projects present.
    • Or Skype in.
  • Try to move some of the lecture material to Stage 1 to allow more time for small group meetings.

Other Thoughts

  • Could we incentivize people to share a room to stretch the funds?
  • Host a hack-a-thon perhaps over the summer? NCC has a budget for shorter workshops and follow-up events to foster and expand the relationship that began at a POSSE.
  • We need a way to connect everyone involved, not just our small groups.
    • Google hangout?
    • TeachingOpenSource IRC?
    • How do we integrate participants back into teachingopensource?
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