POSSE Moves to the West Coast!
After hosting six Professors’ Open Source Software Experience (POSSE) workshops on the east coast, several at Red Hat’s headquarters in Raleigh, the next POSSE will be held at Google’s San Francisco office, April 20-22, 2017. I’m really excited that Google is interested in hosting POSSE! The workshop focuses on helping instructors support students involved in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) projects.
There is so much to learn that we run the POSSE in three stages:
- Stage 1 consists of 8 weeks of online activities to learn HFOSS tools and concepts. The effort is 2-3 hours per week.
- Stage 2 is a 2.5 day face-to-face meeting, this time in San Francisco.
- Stage 3 consists of additional online activities and group interactions.
These workshops are run by the foss2serve team which comprises includes Greg Hislop from Drexel University, Stoney Jackson from Western New England University, Darci Burdge and Lori Postner from Nassau Community College, and Clif Kussmaul from Muhlenberg College. We now have a growing community of over 100 faculty members who have attended POSSE workshops and we are looking for additional instructors to expand our community further. Oh, and for faculty members looking for publications, POSSE alums have generated a growing number of papers, posters, and panels.
If you are a full-time faculty member at a U.S. institution interested in supporting student participation in HFOSS, apply now! More information may be found on the foss2serve site. Because much of the funding for the workshop is coming from the National Science Foundation, we can only accept full-time faculty members at U.S. institutions. However, if you are interested in joining us and can self-fund, please do apply!
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