Slides of a talk I gave at Olin's Expo 2010 about the POSSE program and bridging both academia and open source. Recording is available at: http://vimeo.com/18040214

1. UNDERGRADUATE
EDUCATION
STRATEGIES
PRESENTED BY
Sebastian Dziallas
POSSE Workshop Coordinator
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2. .com .edu
.edu
.com
.com
Academia
.com
.edu
FOSS Industry
Industry
Groups
edu
FOSS .org
.org
Conference LSB
GNOME Curriculum
RHEL Kernel OIE
Virt. Classes etc.
KDE Standards
etc. etc.
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3. (FOSS)
(academia)
6 months Release Cycle 1 – 4 years
ad-hoc – 1 year Planning Cycle 2 – 5 years
6 – 12 months Execution Time 4 years
(including planning)

4. Teaching Open Source Community
Who What
FOSS Contributors Neutral Brand
Students Collaboration Space
Professors Shared Vision*
(* includes a free dose of culture shock)
Industry Folks

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Authentic Experiences!
A better entrypathway Mentors!
for new contributors Motivation!
to my project! Portfolio Material!
Help! Extra hands! Workplace Readiness!
What do I do?

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So chaotic!
So slow & opaque! How do I start?
How do we begin? Who do I trust?
I can't teach the basics Don't know the basic!
over and over! No infrastructure?
They can't use our infra?
Hm.

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So slow & opaque! We'll mediate between So chaotic!
How do we begin? your release cycles! How do I start?
I can't teach the basics Come to industry! Who do I trust?
over and over! POSSE! Textbook! Don't know the basic!
They can't use our infra? Use ours! No infrastructure?

8. What do we do?
(Lots of things.)

9. What is POSSE?
(Hang on. We'll tell you.)

10. Speed of Change
For Academia: For FOSS:
huge decent
and
vs. and
fast not great

11. What do attendees say?
(We'll be handing you a piece of paper now.)

12. Incentives
In exchange for: Professors get:
A week of time Grounding in FOSS
Funding & Expenses Community Contacts
Connections to like-
minded Educators
Means to learn more

13. Be Productively Lost.
('LULWUT?')

14. Here's what you don't get.
('And this is why it's going to be hard.')

15. POSSE Pipeline
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16. POSSE Pipeline
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17. Want to see it yourself?
(POSSE is coming. This summer.)

18. Questions? E-Mail me. Anytime.
sdz@fedoraproject.org