[Scale-planning] Open Source in Education Track OSSIE for 2017
Kenneth Wyrick
kmw at caltek.net
Thu Aug 4 16:20:10 UTC 2016
steve
please review the following to see if it's something that you'd join us in
producing.
thanks.
http://www.stevehargadon.com/ who
<quote who="Kenneth Wyrick">
the following are links that may help us identify presentations and or
support. I think it needs to have an international theme since there's a
lot going on outside of the US. The goal is to discover the most recent
information.
https://opensource.com/education/16/7/open-solution-improving-21st-century-education
http://www.cassproject.org/
https://schoolforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/directory/home-education/os:linux/
http://oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/ossoptionseducation
<quote who="Caryl Bigenho">
Hi Folks,
To summarize our discussion so far, Kenneth Wyrick and I will work on
having an OSSIE track for SCaLE. Others who wish to help us are welcome to
join in.
We need to decide what day would be best for OSSIE, or whether it might be
extended over more than one day. If extended, what days.
We need to explore the possibility of getting one of the local community
colleges on board to grant college credit (typically one unit with a small
fee) to attendees who attend a specified number of hours and certain
specified events/presentations at SCaLE.
We need to line up speakers to fill the OSSIE slots. Joe Renzullo has
already volunteered and his topic sounds very interesting. (Thank you
Joe!)
We need to study the interests shown in the various recent and coming CUE
meetings and conferences to see what topics are most timely now and try to
find ways open source can meet those interests… then look for speakers we
could use on those topics. One topic we should definitely look into is
"Why open source in education?"
When we have all of our "ducks in a row" we need to begin an earnest
publicity campaign to reach teachers (through CUE and other organizations)
and others who might be interested.
We need to see whether there is any possibility of a sponsor for OSSIE who
might be able to fund some really interesting speaker.
For example: Matt and Kaitlyn Hova (who live in Nebraska) would possibly
be a terrific keynote type presentation that would be of interest to any
and all attendees (not just OSSIE). Kaitlyn is going to be doing a talk
for TED-Med. She also plays one of their 3-D printed violins (they call it
a "Hovalin") as part of her presentation. What if we had her (maybe both
of them) as a speaker(s), say on Friday, and printed one of their hovalins
during the course of SCaLE. I don't know how long it would take, but the
cost to make it is about $70, which I think includes strings, bridge,
pegs, etc. Maybe it could be a raffle prize. How does this relate to
OSSIE? STEAM at its best! STEAM is STEM with an A added for Arts!
Fill in the blanks…. there are lots!
Caryl
From: ilan at socallinuxexpo.org
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 17:21:13 -0700
To: scale-planning at lists.linuxfests.org
Subject: Re: [Scale-planning] Open Source in Education Track (was Re:
About the Open Data Track)
Ya, we've also had OSSIE sessions with 5-10 people in the room. So as you
can imagine the range varies depending on the topic, etc.
Ilan Rabinovitch Conference ChairSouthern California Linux
Expo877-831-2569 x110 Voice 818-442-1865 Mobileilan at linuxfests.org Email
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Pasadena, CA
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Hriday Balachandran
<bala at socallinuxexpo.org> wrote:
Hi Ken,
OSSIE specific attendance is hard to predict. Some talks are rather
popular, and some are not. On an average, I think 35-45 people attend the
talks. The really popular ones approach three figures.
The way I have handled OSSIE talks has been a mix of CFP submissions and
curated/invited talks. 5-6 talks are generally the target.
Bala.
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Kenneth Wyrick <kmw at caltek.net> wrote:
I'd like to know what kind of numbers we are talking about for a track
and
how one typically goes about assessing and forecasting the participation
both on the presentation and attendance side?
<quote who="Caryl Bigenho">
Hi Ilan,
Why don't you let Kenneth Wyrick and I see if we can get this going? You
have given us a list of things to work on below and we can get started
right away with such things as whether Friday or Saturday would work best
and how to get more educators to attend.* As I see it, an OSSIE track
shouldn't be just for educators. With so many parents getting involved in
the technology side of their children's education, things like the Khan
Academy videos, Hour of Code and Scratch/ScratchJr are things that will
have a wider audience than just professional educators.
Caryl
* Maybe we could get a unit of college credit for folks who attend the
entire OSSIE day and pay a small fee. Teachers can use this type of
credit
for professional development and, often, it can count toward increases in
salary.
From: ilan at socallinuxexpo.org
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 14:45:05 -0700
To: scale-planning at lists.linuxfests.org; bala at socallinuxexpo.org
Subject: [Scale-planning] Open Source in Education Track (was Re: About
the Open Data Track)
We haven't yet made a decision around OSSIE for this year, but as a track
it has seen reduced attendance and submissions over the past few years.
If
we can come up with some concrete plans around what we'd want it to look
like and discuss how we can get teachers to attend I'm sure we'd be happy
to arrange space again.
Another thing to keep in mind is we've gotten mixed feedback from
teachers
on what day to hold OSSIE on if we continue to do so. On the one hand we
hear from many teachers they can't attend during the weekend as they have
trouble getting the school district to give them a day off for the
conference. On the other hand, we also hear from them that they prefer
to
keep their weekends to themselves rather than for training.
-Ilan
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Folks,
I've been watching silently from afar (summer in Montana). It looks like
everything is coming along well, except for one thing that seems to be
entirely missing: OSSIE (Open Source Software In Education.)
A few years back there was still a dedicated OSSIE track. Have you given
up entirely on having one? If not, I'll be happy to volunteer to help
organize, publicize, coordinate, and do what ever else needs to be done
to
make it happen.
Just let me know!Caryl
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 1, 2016, at 1:46 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch <ilan at socallinuxexpo.org>
wrote:
Hello Juan,
The local big data community has been running a data tools/big data track
the last few years of SCALE. It's possible that what you're looking for
might be covered there? OpenData in general has been a topic we've had
requests for over the years, so we decided to add a one day track around
it.
That being said I think your email highlights an important point. We
find
a lot of confusion from both attendees and speakers about what is
relevant
for a given track each year. E.g. Is intro to kernel development a talk
that belongs in the introductory/beginner track, a kernel track, or a
developer track?
With that in mind we have been looking to recruit experts around each
track to help serve as "track leads". The role involves writing a one
paragraph abstract describing what type of content we are seeking for
that
track, helping to do targeted recruitment for invited speakers on those
tracks, and finally participating in the voting/review process of
sessions
submitted via the CFP.
Here is an example of what QCon has done for these track descriptions
===
Track: Containers - From Dev to ProdAbstract: Containers came to
prominence a couple of years ago with thepromise of portability,
flexibility and rapid deployments. They remain a hot topic in the
industry
and there are several success stories of companiesderiving business value
from the use of containers; especially in the area of developer
experience. At the same time, container technology and thesurrounding
ecosystem are evolving very rapidly, which makes it difficult to assess
its readiness for production use.
In this track, we will hear from practitioners who are leveraging
containers as part of their software delivery processes for a better
developerexperience, simplified operations, efficient resource
utilization, or all of the above. Speakers will share their experiences
in
tackling the complex challenges around CI/CD, scheduling and
orchestration, service discovery, monitoring etc. andwhat it takes to
truly reap the benefits of container technology.Track Lead(s): Sangeeta
Narayanan, Netflix
===
This makes it very clear what the goal of the track is and what type of
content they're seeking.
If you see a track on the CFP that you think you'd be a good fit to lead,
reach out to myself and Shyam (kapadia at socallinuxexpo.org). We'd love to
have your help. We're seeing at least 1 person per track, with 2 leads
per track max.
Thanks,Ilan
Ilan Rabinovitch Conference ChairSouthern California Linux
Expo877-831-2569 x110 Voice 818-442-1865 Mobileilan at linuxfests.org Email
---Ask me about sponsorship and speaking opportunities at
LinuxFests.org's
upcoming events:DevOps Days SV - June 24-25, 2016 - Mountain View, CA
Texas Linux Fest - July 8-9, 2016, Austin TXSCALE 15x - March 2-5, 2017 -
Pasadena, CA
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Juan J. Natera <naterajj at gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
I was taking a look at the CFP page
(http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/cfp), when I read the
description of the Open Data track, which I quote here:
"Open Data - This newly introduced track will focus on topics related
to Open Data in Science, Government, and other sources. This will
strive to answer questions such as: Why does Open Data Matter? What
are benefits of Open Data? What are the goals of the Open Data
movement? What is its current status?"
As an Open Source enthusiast, I wholeheartedly agree with the
importance of Open Data, and realize there is a long road ahead of
those working to address this issue. However I believe that this
track, as described, would be more at home as a keynote in Data
focused conference. I am not saying it goes against SCALE's mission to
have this kind of content, far from it. but speaking also as an
attendee, I think SCALE users would be more interested in Open Source
tools for working with data (big or small), since it's already obvious
for most scale attendees that Open Data is just as good as Open Source
software.
I also realize that Big Data is mentioned in the Cloud Track, but
isn't there enough interest in this topic to deserve its own track?
Some food for thought,
Thanks,
Juan
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