[OSCTC-planning] schools to contact for this fall

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

Sumana - yes, that list is super useful!  Thank you.

Our plan for this fall is for our events to be simultaneous.  Luckily your
description of #3 fits us pretty well.  Our experience is that events
running remotely need little to no help from us, and certainly nothing
happening at multiple events at the same time, so we're hoping we can scale
up to running 3-5 events at once.  (The most we've done so far is 2.)

We're making self-guided versions of all event activities.  This is
partially for event organizers who don't have an open source background who
are worried we won't be able to find them a mentor to teach, for instance,
how to use github.  It has the nice side effects of:

  - being an additional way for students to learn a topic, when the
in-person event uses a different version
  - being a resource for students at events to review what they learned
later
  - being a resource for students who miss some or all of the event but who
want to know about what we teach

Mel, Sheila - thanks for the encouragement to contact everyone.  I will do
so, and hope for the best!  The spring isn't so far away if we need to push
some events off until then.




On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:33 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Mallory Lim Chua <chuam at purdue.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> > I don't know if there is a large enough pool of volunteers with
>> experience to run things at the same time.
>>
>> ...#3 relies on teaching teams being independent enough to run -- well,
>> independently. Either because they're doing something super-simple, because
>> you have really well-scaffolded materials, or because you have
>> super-skilled teachers (super-skilled relative to the complexity of the
>> teaching tasks they're doing, so that they can handle any contingencies
>> that pop up on their own). This isn't bad -- it's actually really easy if
>> you just scope the teaching tasks to be simple, and provide the necessary
>> resources -- but it takes deliberate planning.
>
>
> I've been trying to be very pushy with people from software-carpentry and
> numfocus to get them excited about osctc and OpenHatch affiliated events in
> general. so much so that I hope I am not being annoying with my
> obessiveness!
>
> But, it does seem to me that there is a lot of cross over in the expertise
> needed from the volunteers as well as some of the same skills being taught!
> So I really hope people consider recruiting from those folks.
>
> ... and food for thought,
> http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/06/iuse-proposal-rejected.html
>
> We got word a few days ago that our proposal to the NSF's Improving
>> Undergraduate STEM Education
>> <https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504976> program had
>> been rejected. The panel summary agreed that software training is a good
>> idea, but were not convinced about our plans to shift from training grad
>> students to undergrads. In particular, they were not convinced that
>> Unix-based workshops would be best for undergrads, and felt that not being
>> embedded in the regular curriculum was a weakness. These are fair
>> criticisms: [...]
>>
>
>
>
> --
> shekay at pobox.com
>
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