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Joe Welch

Joe is a CS instructor in the Computer Science department at Hartnell College, Salinas CA. Hartnell College is located in the central coastal region of California, within the Salinas Valley ("the salad bowl of the world"). Hartnell College offers AS degrees in the area of: Web Design, Network and Security, and CS transfer studies.

Prior to teaching at Hartnell College, Joe spent 26 years in the Navy as a Naval Aviator and Aeronautical Engineering Duty Officer, largely focused on software development support for aircraft and flight trainers.

Joe's scholarly interests are focused on improving the teaching practices in programming education, network and host security, software carpentry practices distributed to other campus students and orbital optimization for LEO satellites (!).

Joe is currently involved with the following grants and initiatives:

    a.	Co-PI, NSF Award 1317649, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) , "Academic Integrity Management (AIM) of a collaborative three year computer science degree program,"
    b.	Coordinates Hartnell College participation and engagement with MPICT (Mid-Pacific Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Center) with mission to coordinate promote and improve the quality of ICT education.
    c.	Coordinates Hartnell college participation with Cyberwatch East and Cyberwatch West involving activities, workshops and clinics focused on computer security and information assurance.
    d.	Co-PI in managing grant execution for Hartnell College Scholars in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (SSTEM) grant. The SSTEM Scholarship program is intended to increase student success in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math fields

During free and family time Joe enjoys hiking, traveling (visiting family and friends across the states) and coding (of course!).



[16 Jul 15] Stage 1 Activities. Completed:

1. Introduction to FOSS (2 hrs) - Completed 7/16. Notable elements were:

Eric Raymond documents on steps to become a hacker, philosophy of code development Article: Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? Document: Teaching_Open_Source 0.1 Practical Open Source Software Exploration Multiple references to tools and utilities available to participate. Much of the conversational style was encouraging and clear. Logged into FreeNode channel ##python-friendly

2. TOS Activity Part 1 - Joined the Teaching Open Source Mailing List Part 2 - Added myself to the People Page on Teaching Open Source

3. Introduction to Wikis Created my wiki and linked to participant page

4. Introduction to IRC Used ChatZilla and HydraIRC to access IRC'steps Will lurk on foss2serve and other channels over next two weeks to become familiar with content and interaction. ** Remaining - post IRC observations to my user wiki

5. IRC Meeting - TBD

6. ** Anatomy of a FOSS Project - TBD after group IRC


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